Afaict mods are on our side, despite whatever "aggregated" data "suggest"
This site (which I peruse everyday) claims that 3 AI articles were modded down today, but in actual fact the single nonAI article that was supposed to have been modded down was modded up.
What do they miss that you haven't ? What is their blind spot? Imho "Sharp-Bigots" is the keyword :)
(As for teams with wellbred dogs going up against SB away from their steamrollers, 1000 yards is necessary and sufficient for the element of surprise?)
Unbelievably, I am here to comment on an idea of PH's (IIRC) that the only way to improve local trust-levels is to import children from high-trust environments. This study may give a clue to how to figure out an ideal age-of-transplant!
He was thinking of Mamdani-- I think the argument was that he grew up around high trust (Brahmin left?) adults but got thrust into progressively less trustful environments (Africa -> Columbia/upper west side -> NYC in general)
Epstein emails make me realise that Young Bill Gates probably had more influence than all the politicians and old Bill Gates combined over the current course of history. This explains the current obsession with Sam Altman.
Actually I'm optimistic that spending less attention on these politicians (or even reading/writing [company emails future or past])
but more on making Richard Scarry's proto-dreams a bit more concrete would help us go a long way towards teaching 5yr old kids these days how to organise a quiet revolution when they reach 12 :)
Yeah, the scaling is very unfortunate; maybe if AI puts everyone out of work we'll have enough teachers? (that's a joke: my understanding is that there's a knee at a 1:12 ratio that may not be as good as an Oxbridge 1:2 but certainly would've improved upon the 1:30+ classrooms of my youth)
Were you also fortunate enough to have Alisa Seleznyova in your classes, or was that part of general ed? Where I went to school, I had to rely on MAD magazine for propanal instruction! (subscription thankfully provided by the same parents who'd ensured my basic literacy before entrusting me to K-12)
The English description says "Russia, 1987". This is incorrect. It's 1984 (before the Perestroyka polity), Uzbekfilm studio in Tashkent (now Uzbekistan). Interestingly, the crew surnames are some Uzbek, some Russian, some Korean (Tsoi) and even one German last name.
Ah egregious kernel-bug that I haven't fixed yet :( Looks like inner sharpbigot/schizo indeed got confused with E? maybe not quickly fixable, so I'd better find a win-win way to leverage it ;)?
I know a person who published(!, but easier to check) citation-bugs of this variety (not defending this, just pointing out a possible WASP-slav superposition condition :)
(After a long day of unsuccessfully riding herd on an "smart undergrad" LLM coder..)
My slightly exasperated inner bigot hunches that there's something to learn from the antiparallel failures by which OpenAI tried to assimilate 官 into 商 VS how the local polity has been trying to distill 官 from 商(-adjacent, so a form of "nickling"?)
In particular, 6-letter long function names may have been convenient on mainframes that used 6-bit alphanumerics in 36-bit words, the 36-bits having been backward compatible with 10-decimal-digit electromechanical calculators.
EDIT: I had thought 10 digits of precision were required for certain calculations, but the WP article points out that they may have just corresponded to the operators having had 10 digits on 2 hands, in which case we're being backwards compatible with Hox genes, specifically Hoxd, and tetrapod pentadactyly is backwards compatible to hundreds of millions of years:
Had more to do with punch cards and flexowriter tapes and octal, which predates large word sizes or even mainframes. Note the following from the MIDAS macro assembler [0]
Fortran predates this and was a different lineage than IBM, but not how six char symbols were a request
> The MACRO language had been used on the TX-0 for some three years previous to the writing of MIDAS. Hence, MIDAS incorporates
most, of the features which have been requested by users of MACRO, such as more flexible macro Instructions, six character symbols and relocation.
Note that when porting b to the pdp-11, which was ascii vs the earlier FIODEC/flexowriter 6 bit paper tapes is why c case statements fall through, they used it to allow lower case commands in ed as an example.
Flexowriters are 1940s iirc, and TX-0 through the early pdps were octal so it makes sense to grow in multiples of the 3.3 bit lines of paper tape
Also note you can count to 12 on one hand and 60 with the other. That is why the ancient Sumerians used it. Base 10 was added to Roman abacus but they still kept the uncia (12) for some functions.
IIRC that wasn’t droop until the renaissance when they read Archimedes attempt to calculate the number of grains of sand needed to fill the universe with grains of sand, he used decimal and they asserted it was superior.
At my first job circa 1990, our codebase was constrained to 6-character function names in the core libraries, which had to run on many platforms including mainframes. If I recall correctly, you could have longer names, but only the first 6 characters were significant to the linker.
Never thought about why that might be other than "yeah, memory is expensive".
Btw, JD Vance claimed his wife is his spirit animal, so if he's a racist, he is at best the kind of racist who'd find it morally imperative that animals try and become human?
PS: have you figured out what math pros would call the satirical functor? It's alright to ask your kith kin or kollegen for help :)
I'd always kind of imagined the reactionary geometers were defending an order in which their tools were imperfect finite approximations that yielded insights into perfect infinite truths, where the original sin of the revolutionary analysts was in saying that "yes, and with compactness and continuity, many of these problems have their α-and-ω in finite descriptions".
Is that a fair take? Would it be one, even if it were ahistorical?
I like that perspective, but I believe the conflict was more about "old vs. new". Geometry was very old by that point, ancient, and it carried a lot of personal gravitas by being associated with Euclid, Archimedes, Thales etc. (Galenic theory of humors enjoyed similar ancient intellectual prestige, hence its long and bitter retreat from the scene at approximately the same time.) It was also "obviously right", in the sense of "everyone can look and see for themselves". Even uneducated peple can verify that a certain line touches both circles etc. No wonder it was an attractive safe haven for conservative minds.
Meanwhile, analysis was not yet particularly rigorous and it took several decades to converge on a standard apparatus and notation that could at least be understood coherently by other mathematicians. (Laymen tend to struggle with it until today.) Add the political dimensions of being seen friendly to the French into the mix, well...
