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Mediocre literally means middling, which may or may not be good enough depending on requirements.

My intuitive understanding is that deriving new theorem from existing concepts is "new math" insofar as it conclusively proves whether existing conjectures are in fact true or not …

I gave up the belief he could abstain from that after he ruined Return.

Oh and if you really love that dumb, sophomoric ending, you can also get Return to Monkey Island, which is yet another game Gilbert ruined with this tired trope. And that's why Cur…

Having working in that area a little bit, simple heuristics to know if someone has dumb ideas about advertising are whether they: a) think it's some kind of magical MK-Ultra-level …

And you ask Claude to read it for you. No way I'm reading past a couple sentences of that level of slop.

I think what it boils down to is that in my experience physics education lacks a clear historical component about how the current state of the art is a gradual process of proposing…

Also, physics (the discipline) is also a construction by and for humans.

My point is precisely that I was often taught physics as if it was mathematics, where there is in fact a profound ontological difference between the two.

Lagrangian / Hamiltonian mechanics, the principle of least action, always seemed neat, in L&L and other places I encountered it, until I tried doing exactly what you're saying: gai…

More than twenty years ago, I quit a program that taught math/cs/physics (the notorious French "classes préparatoires") ~almost precisely over this: I felt like I was being taught …

True, though those things don't have to be mutually exclusive.

2 inches / sec * 60 sec = 120 inches = 10 ft ? It also doesn't seem like it scans your head from what I've seen.

That's definitely an important point to consider, in fact something I think everyone in these conversations should be cognizant of, and also why it makes me believe the actual conv…

That's basically the only thing I'm interested in reading about this. Based on my complete lack of radiology knowledge, I'd say the images look... a bit blurry or something? So, wh…

That book cover goes so hard.

"There are more subsets of a set than elements."

Right. Because something is reducible, modulo a bunch of stuff you're not looking at, to a simplistic model, doesn't make it "just" that. Use of the word "just" is often a good tel…

Fun book that covers part of that, Machine Decision is Not Final: China and the History and Future of Artificial Intelligence . [0] [0] https://www.urbanomic.com/book/machine-decis…

A similar confusion exists in French, but we have an extra locution, "en huit", to clarify when necessary. It's far from widely followed, however. Too bad, I would love it if "next…

French and English are roughly on par for how terrible they are at this. Relevant concept here is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthographic_depth Source: native French speaker an…

If you want something a bit more "serious" on this, check out The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet by Bogna Konior. [0] [0] https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-d…

Looking at Youtube videos of Barbican apartment visits for 15 minutes will tell you this poster is projecting quite a bit.

The number of tech or tech-adjacent people that have completely torched their reputation in the last few weeks is staggering. I hope they get publicly shamed.