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Back in the day there were some browser extensions for doing it locally, but I’m not seeing any modern efforts. Alas.

I won’t be surprised when the GAO’s budget is cut next as retaliation for this embarrassing report.

I’m describing about how the term is used by EA folks, which may not match its formal definition. (“In practice, it can be used as. . .”) > You can only throw up your hands and say…

It’s the “tractability” part of the ITN framework: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/itn-framework In practice, it can be used as a fully-general counterargument to suppor…

> I still have some hope in the last one "mathematicians and the mathematically-inclined will still do math on their own". Maybe some limited communities of this sort will form. I …

She makes a very good point that an algorithm that has bad big-O behavior can be better for humans than an algorithm with better. For instance, I found insertion sort to be the mos…

Fair enough, I retract my earlier comment. That's not an inconsistent position to hold. My apologies.

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Ah. That makes more sense, thanks.

> There isn't. My coworkers holding such degrees would beg to differ. > And if you are trying to snarkily describe an MS, then most MS programs are too short. It wasn’t snarky, it …

Very perplexing. There’s already a 3-4 year advanced degree in the United States with an optional thesis component that companies in relevant industries can intervene in and direct…

Sorry, did you intend to link this reply to a different comment?

I do believe the “we have to strip voting rights from the poor in order to save the poor” framing expressed in this thread is new, however.

> Why is it pointless to inform and remind others about what Israel did in the region? It’s the act of comment warring that is pointless. [X/Y] partisans are not intellectually cur…

Both.

Yep, can confirm. I was aggressively recruited for education as a math undergrad. There was no way that was going to happen, too many people view male teachers as inherently predat…

To your point about high humidity exacerbating heat, I think it’s relevant to consider wet bulb globe temperatures (WBGT) instead of air temperature. It’s more objective than heat …

The document says more about the kind of advisor Moh was than the kind of mathematician Zhang is.

If you’re interested, I found https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09814v1 to beat Strassen for medium-sized and larger covariance matrices. YMMV of course. Takes a little adjustment for XX^…

In addition, he was riffing on Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon, a hub-and-spoke style prison design with a single guard at the hub observing the prisoners in each spoke. 1984 imagines …

I would like to see him try, yes.