mjreacher

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by mjreacher 2y ago
I wonder if there is any connection of this being on the front page today with this paper [0] being uploaded on arXiv today or if it's just pure coincidence. [0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10744
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Princeton. General Exams on Theory for Economics PhD 1953 Through 1972(irwincollier.com)
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Tell HN: Happy New Year
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by mjreacher 2y ago
Marina vN Whitman had the book in her possession so I suppose they visited her and got access to it that way. I emailed her back in 2022 about it and she said she was planning on sending it to Josh Levy at the Library of Congress to go with
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by mjreacher 2y ago
I've seen her unpublished memoir, A Grasshopper in Very Tall Grass, quoted in quite a few places and it definitely seems worth publishing, such a shame no publisher has taken any interest in it yet.
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In the Lab Oppenheimer Built, the U.S. Is Building Nuclear Bomb Cores Again(time.com)
9 points by mjreacher 3y ago|2 comments
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by mjreacher 3y ago
A short thread giving an overview of the report mandated by Congress: https://twitter.com/jseldin/status/1672390899718840322
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Potential Links Between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and Origin of Covid [pdf](dni.gov)
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AI should be licensed like medicines or nuclear power, UK Labour suggests(theguardian.com)
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World's spy chiefs meet in secret conclave in Singapore(reuters.com)
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The World Beyond Ukraine: The Survival of the West and the Demands of the Rest(foreignaffairs.com)
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by mjreacher 3y ago
By the sounds of that article there needs to be more work done on applying abstract notions of complexity to the real world and developing suitable methods for this.
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by mjreacher 3y ago
Parent post doesn't distinguish between those. It just annoys to see people always talking about governmental or corporate bureaucracy but when it comes to intelligence agencies suddenly it's like they're immune to it and bec
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by mjreacher 3y ago
> spying on allies That is one of the exact purposes those agencies exist for in almost every country of the world. > possibly misleading the public about casualty numbers The numbers given in the documents are consistent with the num
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by mjreacher 3y ago
Ukraine's Western supporters can propose a ceasefire but why would either side agree to one? Putin seems to be in it for the long haul, he probably knows Western support for Ukraine will gradually go down and then once Russia's mi
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by mjreacher 3y ago
They literally openly admitted it last November. You can say the special forces part is new but that isn't the point being made by most, which is about US troop boots on the ground, and the military never says which specific type of tr
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by mjreacher 3y ago
If ICs were already all over major social media like Discord, then how did these leaks sit spread around unnoticed for almost half a year? I swear every time this comes up people's critical thinking just vanishes into thin air. Mytholo
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Blundering on the brink: The secret history of the Cuban missile crisis(foreignaffairs.com)
3 points by mjreacher 4y ago|0 comments
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by mjreacher 4y ago
On the contrary, John von Neumann was not known to sleep much at all and he was well known for being the fastest thinker alive in his time.
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Should scientific journals back political candidates? Probably not(ananyo.substack.com)
3 points by mjreacher 4y ago|3 comments
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A World Without Men: Women of SK’s 4B movement are leaving behind the patriarchy(thecut.com)
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On Betrayal(engelsbergideas.com)
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by mjreacher 4y ago
The War Zone is a well reputed publication for defense news so I'm not sure why you're making this comment? The fact it publishes under The Drive has nothing to do with the author and hence quality of the content.
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South Korea Now Openly Discussing Arming Itself with Nuclear Weapons(thedrive.com)
5 points by mjreacher 4y ago|2 comments
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by mjreacher 4y ago
Some comments on the math subreddit by some folks going through the proof in case anyone with a more formal background is interested: https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/zruc58/221209835_a_no...
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by mjreacher 4y ago
This issue has been talked about quite a bit over the past few years and to me it comes down fundamentally to incentives academics have to keep churning papers because that's what they get measured on. Of course the good thing about th
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by mjreacher 4y ago
Dirac came from a later generation than Einstein. For example during Einstein's annus mirabilis (1905) I doubt very many physicists knew of tensor calculus considering it was only developed a decade beforehand. During that time the mat
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by mjreacher 4y ago
This reminds me of how Terence Tao almost failed his orals at Princeton. Turns out even the best in the field need to spend lots of time doing hard work. https://web.math.princeton.edu/generals/tao_terence https:&#x2F
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Brains of post-pandemic teens show signs of faster ageing, study finds(theguardian.com)
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Quarter of 17-19-year-olds have probable mental disorder – study(bbc.com)
3 points by mjreacher 4y ago|2 comments

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