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LOL, pleased to read that Air Canada got smacked down. Yeah, if I'm calling or chatting with a company, I expect them to stand by whatever commitments they make, and I will judge t…

I have to assume that there are hedge funds or someone like that, already investing extensive effort into trying to get AI to beat the market. I assume that it can't, but if I'm wr…

Yup. I get lots of cold emails from salespeople whose products I couldn't possibly give less of a shit about. But I agree, those aren't what this thread is talking about.

I'm taking group fitness classes at a local gym, and I love them. I assume that AI is quite capable of designing workouts, and creating audio files with instructions that I could t…

One day, my psychiatrist had brought her new dachshund puppy to work, and she invited me to pick him up. He promptly licked all over my face and then fell asleep in my arms. I joke…

Thanks, I appreciate it. Yeah, I tried out an online weight loss program (Wondr) that made the same point. When it was video of psychologists, I could definitely understand what th…

May I ask you to explain yourself? For some people, mealtime is special and a little bit sacred. I have friends who are avid cooks, and for whom eating is often the highlight of th…

I'm an academic mathematician, and could you explain your second prediction? It goes entirely against the culture of research mathematics to hoard secrets. If you've done something…

I'm a research mathematician. I can see that you're arguing in good faith, and indeed I have a lot of respect for anyone willing to argue an unpopular position. That said, I do fin…

I have no idea what actually happened behind the scenes, but the human prompter, Levent Alpöge, indeed has deep math expertise. Princeton PhD, Harvard postdoc, and some excellent r…

For the Jacobian determinant to be constant is a massive coincidence, in general it is some complicated and messy polynomial. The conjecture was that this coincidence couldn't happ…

This is fascinating. That said, if it's possible to do better than random guessing, then does this reflect the fact that the five charts are presumably hand-selected to be "interes…

Indeed, I find this story quite interesting (and disturbing) from the Belgian point of view. Suppose the Belgian government declared the ambassador persona non grata , and sent the…

Since I last looked, at least on my browser the gameboard has been significantly enlarged. I'd say it's now obvious, but previously I mistook a bishop for a pawn.

This is cool! One suggestion: some way to tell what the enemy pieces are? Maybe a legend to the right of the board? I ended up discovering by trial and error.

Math professor here. If you want to learn math, then for the most part I recommend choosing time-tested avenues, using popular materials. There are two reasons for this: (1) Popula…

> People treat email has a permanent data store. Is this strange? I'll be trying to solve some problem, half-remember an email conversation from several years ago on something rele…

I'm an academic mathematician in a US research-oriented department. I'm happy to report that I've observed very little of what you describe.

Some drivers seem to resent the idea that they should have to share the road, or slow down for anyone. Even if cyclists do everything right, they're still slower than cars, and so …

Math professor here. When I go to research lectures, I sometimes hear that in response to audience questions, although not especially consistently. Some speakers do this more than …

These are very good questions, but it was a long time ago and I'm afraid I don't remember well enough to answer. I'm not even sure I could have answered you at the time. In my memo…

> I’m skeptical that there’s anything special about high trust communities other than a higher baseline of morale Strictly speaking I'd agree with you -- but I would consider a hig…

I went to Rice which had a similarly strong honor code, and it absolutely inspired pride. In me, and from what I could tell in many of my classmates. Is it propaganda? In some sens…

I live in South Carolina, about half an hour from Congaree National Park. It's not a place you'd drive across the country to see, but it's beautiful and highly worth a visit. There…

Definitely agreed! When I started my Ph.D. program, there was a weekly seminar that I started going to. At first, I instinctively left each week immediately after the talk was over…