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The part that's indefensible is the illegal and sudden nature of the cuts. You have absolutely no moral obligation to pay for bungee jumping lessons for your friends, but if you cu…

Was trying to explain convolution (of functions) to a friend and I wanted to build a little picture. I typed more or less nothing into Claude and it gave me a fine web-app for demo…

Yes, this is the crucial distinction. (I wish that articles criticizing PE were framed in terms of LBOs + bankruptcy-law instead, because that's the root of the policy problem.) Co…

generally when you want people to have free intellectualism you don't force them to take your courses

Also fewer prerequisites to understand the statement than the average research problem.

i confused michigan with north dakota, and it all makes sense now! sorry.

(light correction - she was extradited hundreds of miles all the way to Michigan!)

I never really understood about PERM. Suppose I am a manager on a team and one of my employees is going through the PERM process. I'm supposed to put out a job advertisement (but t…

scary but thank goodness github actions is highly reliable, robust to change, and has a simple-to-understand ontology.

came with the same complaint. the website then had the nerve to tell me i am overconfident.

The government enforces contracts, so it gets to choose which contracts it enforces. Without a functioning judicial system (and a law enforcement system to enforce its verdicts), a…

When is the last time the Democrats ran a billionaire?

Has anyone played Bean and Nothingness? Great game, but also a great Discord server for this problem, with lots of norms around spoiling. I've been disappointed in some board gamin…

Bug? It shows me the note and I just have to mash it and then it shows me the next note.

Don't worry - self-hosted runners are fine.

If X is a smooth projective curve over an algebraically closed field k, then we can make a (huge, useless) abelian group Div(X) which is the set of formal sums of points on X. (The…