TimorousBestie

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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
> pure mathematicians lost themselves in the formalization of hypothesizing/modeling and thus lost touch with mapping it to reality. You’re describing a very small fragment of total current mathematical labor. Very few people work s
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> LLMs sure, but AlphaZero had no visual cortex yet can smash Magnus Carlsen easily. Chess does not require a visual cortex to play. People have been playing by mail with algebraic notation for centuries.
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Your second paragraph does not make the argument you seem to intend. Most other places in the world did not require an incredibly bloody civil war in order to (partially) abolish slavery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
Insofar as originalism did “win,” it was only as a convenient signal to Mitch Mcconnell that a potential appointee would play ball. As an academic legal theory it’s entirely sterile. There’s little actual content within it and it demonstrat
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> Meanwhile, English common law points one way, while some legislative history, the 1866 civil rights act, and the 1924 indian citizenship act point the other way. This is a summary of Thomas’ dissent; the majority opinion is based on mo
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I’m curious why you believe an amendment will help your situation. This case (placed alongside many others in recent memory) demonstrates that no matter how clear and unequivocal a legal text you write, the textualists can find a way to ove
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Birthright citizenship is not unique to the United States, it’s common to certain kinds of former colonies.
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
I have a pet theory that it’s difficult for her to convince the far right wing of the court to let her write the majority opinion, and that’s part of what is fueling these uncharacteristic or “independent” moments.
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
I hear this explanation a lot but I think it's a convenient fiction. Lawmakers, at least in the US, don't seem to write their own legal texts very often. Sometimes they don't even read them [1]! Congress has no problem produc
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
Looks like an opportunity for you to generate new content for the blog!
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Heh, that user’s handle is a reference to the visual novel Fate/Stay Night (which has been adapted into several animes). A cute coincidence.
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Aww, I loved My Brilliant Friend (but I've never studied Italian at all, it was translation or nothing for me).
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
> how many of them took them up on the offer, and how many are in leadership roles? In my cohort? Several, and who knows? The recruitment effort is very visible and intense. The US math phd market has been a slow-rolling disaster for ove
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Well, good luck making those numbers work out. I think I’ll stick to studying Mandarin.
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> And apparently the judge openly made a statement indicating unconstitutional bias on his part in court. So I guess the entire thing is a farce meant to intimidate the average joe. Yeah, the judge is well aware that every court this cas
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by TimorousBestie 3mo ago
I think you successfully dodged the joke.
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“By that definition, DOGE was postmodernist” is sincerely great, good job.
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
Anyone with a bare understanding of the history of science would understand how bad of an assumption that is. You specifically have the much harder problem of explaining how you intend to maintain tech dominance with a Cultural Revolution a
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> Or did you mean this subset was "very unhappy" in like a completely impotent and meaningless way? That’s how I understood it, yes. So unhappy that they’ll write him in for a third term.
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The whole point of an FRO is to have less oversight than a traditional government grant or contract.
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Yeah, this is all well-attested. It’s so weird. Presumably the conservatives still want the US to be a superpower, which presumably includes high-tech capabilities like global power projection, missile defense, and persistent space operatio
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
More or less a handout to the tech industry. This is just the STTR program with even less oversight and a questionable funding source. Curious what the plan is when the academic pipeline for training researchers collapses entirely. AI all t
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
Rational trigonometry is useful in some contexts (I’ve optimized trig computations with it in the past) but I wouldn’t call it GA, it’s a different kind of beast.
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> I still don't really know what my favoured notation for differential geometry is, I find myself switching around so much. Yep, me too. Maybe someday the HoTT folks will get around to formalizing it and standardizing the notation.
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Yeah, while I’ve never used GMT for anything substantial I certainly like currents and densities. That reminds me, I’ve been meaning to rewrite parts of Hormander’s epic with tools from GMT but never found the time.
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by TimorousBestie 4mo ago
Mathematician here. > As I see it, GA is not so much a subject as an ideological position, consisting of basically two ideological claims about the world: > Claim 1: That the concepts of EA (so, wedge products, multivectors, duality,
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It’s difficult. Medical devices are not easy for a small business to break into and the big manufacturers don’t typically hire entry-level. Everyone I know in the field has come into it laterally either from a prior software or hardware job
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> there was no 9/11 due to smoother handoff between administrations. It’s an interesting counterfactual but I don’t see the mechanism. The hijackers were mostly in country by inauguration day. While it’s true that they weren’t reall
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You either misremember or misrepresent WaPo’s reporting. > In all likelihood, George W. Bush still would have won Florida and the presidency last year if either of two limited recounts -- one requested by Al Gore, the other ordered by th
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Winning arguments on the internet is more important than ideological consistency.

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