maxminminmax

3 ms·

1. 1.▲
   by maxminminmax 9mo ago

   Yes, but that’s not the relevant datum, because of selection effects. The relevant question is how well employed is the person who had a choice to do a Ph.D. or not compared to the counterfactual person who made an opposite choice. As an ex
2. 2.▲
   by maxminminmax 3y ago

   *then dg/du = x and dg - xdu =0
3. 3.▲
   by maxminminmax 3y ago

   It’s ironic to see the link to that post which implicitly assumes that functions are defined on R^n, under a post about Legendre transform, whose point is that functions are defined on state spaces of systems, and only become represented by
4. 4.▲
   by maxminminmax 3y ago

   This is one of the most strawman (to put it mildly) things I have ever read.
5. 5.▲
   by maxminminmax 4y ago

   >but probabilistically the strategy is optimal. For what value function? It is basically never the case that my value function is "all choices other than the optimal are equally bad" -- which is what this rule is based on. As a
6. 6.▲
   by maxminminmax 4y ago

   https://www.amazon.com/Nuts-Bolts-Proofs-Introduction-Mathem... https://www.amazon.com/Art-Craft-Problem-Solving/dp/04717890...
7. 7.▲
   by maxminminmax 4y ago

   105B/39.51M=2657. Can I just take the money?