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I'm like the Japanese soldier who kept fighting into the 1970s on this, but actually signalling is about taking costly action. When people call something virtue signalling what the…

I have a graduate degree in mathematics. AI models can absolutely help you do research math in 2026. I recently asked chatGPT to prove a result which I know to have been published …

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I got my mortgage at 2.5% interest. The mortgage was about equal to all of the cash I had before buying, and I'm pretty sure I could (and should) have gotten a much larger mortgage…

That's not a nit. There's not much left of the articles point once you take this on board.

Rigor is not the whole point of math. Understanding is. Rigor is a tool for producing understanding. For a further articulation of this point, see https://arxiv.org/abs/math/940423…

But Houston Street is older than Sam Houston, and was always pronounced that way.

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I actually have worked in this space and it, uh, has not shaken my belief that powerpoint talks are bad.

I like the idea that various communications media have implicit social contracts that can be broken. In my opinion, power point presentations break an implicit social contract that…

Last time I flew Delta they no longer had this bot, which made me sad. One of my favorite parts of flying was getting absolutely crushed into a tiny cube by the airplane seat's eas…

Good negative feedback is a public service, a gift from the critic to you, and a severely undersupplied one in this world we live in.

Do you think that the average person can get a gold on the IMO?

In 2019, NPR's planet money did a segment on the Hong Kong protests that heavily featured Jimmy Lai. This segment from the end has always stuck with me. GOLDSTEIN: China has not al…

Yes, Malthusian society was very boring, that's my point.

But in this world the distribution of social backgrounds in the population had very low entropy. Over 90% of people were just working the land.

If the Canterbury Tales had been actually representative of the time in which they were written, it would not have been the Knight's Tale, the Miller's Tale, the Reeve's Tale, etc.…

Maybe? But you could have written this same thing in 1999 with OpenAI and Google replaced by Google and Yahoo, respectively.

Matrix multiplication is not ugly, but matrices themselves are ugly, mainly because they encode the arbitrary operation of choosing a basis. There's nothing especially nice about t…

https://people.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/zagier/files/math-mag/63-2/f... "How often should you beat your kids?", by Don Zagier. > This note is a follow-up to the note "How to beat your kids…

The qwen clocks are art.

Are you saying that a non-aphantasic person can recall the eye color of everyone in their office?

I do not, and have never, understood why absolute R&D investment is compared to relative growth rate in this literature. It would make sense to compare R&D spending as a percentage…

Agree, but I think there is another, more important factor. They are a highly visible part of the internet, and their existence is mainly internet-based. This means that the people…

I think this point is less forceful than it seems due to the high dimensional nature of knowledge. I just don't know that much more than I did when I was younger; there are too man…