spontaneous symmetry breakdance

may or may not check DMs

hey I'm starting to notice I've been way too online lately and this, combined with the fact that I'm away from all my friends and not really socializing, is making me a little insane.

Gonna log off for a few days and see if that helps.

I like this idea, but there are a lot of cases where a relatively simple and opaque type is a more complicated type alias under the hood (e.g. Haskell transformers/MTL, where `type State s = StateT s Identity`). Not sure it'd be worth the tradeoff.

It actually hurts other pro-Palestine politicians like Mamdani and Abughazaleh to lump Platner in with them and pretend like the bad-faith accusations of antisemitism lobbed at them are similarly bad-faith when lobbed at Platner. This is why someone like Platner can poison a progressive coalition.

the default stances are to continue to argue about the dead horse vs socialize real harms cost while privatizing the upsides

we should meaningfully change that by no longer bike shedding about the dead horse

AI companies should internalize their externalities

For most tasks people are using them for, absolutely (not sure what your case was).

I basically only use them for problems where it's way easier to verify a candidate solution, or to iterate on something that's mostly correct, than it is to come up with a solution in the first place.

So, as someone who used to be more of a skeptic but has gradually moved away from that position, the latest Claudes have been massively useful for:
- Lit searches from natural language queries
- Proving small lemmas/identities
- TikZ diagrams
- Basic questions about fields adjacent to mine

significant hit to the "it's just 4o" theory of things.

so far essentially every one of these has been worse after you read the article than just reading the headline.

this is fantastic and also makes me very glad I never have to think about sphere packing in bounded regions

to some extent this was also true even about classical programs the more they interacted in any way with the external world

me neither; I just installed a little unicode search dialog and bound it to a keyboard shortcut

I also spend enough time writing LaTeX that it feels more natural than "—"

I use a lot of em dashes. After they became associated with the OpenAI house style, I started intentionally leaving them as "---" instead of converting to Unicode.

Leave the em-dash alone This writing panic has a 500-year precedent

Most great English sentences draw on both Germanic and Romance/Latin layers of the language. If you start pulling at the Latin threads, the whole thing comes apart.

Here's the full story of what the purists were fighting about, and why it echoes today:

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/em-dash-ai...

yeah that was never a huge issue for me personally, but has been for a lot of friends. Absent resource constraints, I think colleges should just give everyone the option to take their tests in an isolated cubicle with minimal auditory distractions.

As an adherent of Caroline Ellison Thought, I also don't really care if ADHD is overdiagnosed, because I think the optimal stimulant dose is nonzero for most people.

Gaming disability accommodations is a thing, but IME, it's less an issue of students cynically faking ADHD to get extra time, and more of students with legit diagnoses being given unnecessary extra time and following incentives.

And the benefits seem marginal at best.

This thread is rather illuminating as to the "abuse of disability accommodations" as you'll note the thing that required zero money was given, but the actually important thing that cost money wasn't.

as they should be

(assuming I can substitute veggie dogs)

Only 14? Hell, forget the money. I'll pay *you*.

The best thing is half of Bluesky rushed to say this and link the old Politico article and somehow Rubio never read it.

After you became the first Cuban-American speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, in 2006, your mentor, Jeb Bush, presented you with a sword. What was that about? Chang is a mythical conservative warrior. From time to time, if there's a big issue going on, you'd see Jeb say, "I'm going to unleash Chang." He gave me the sword of chang.

Yep

newrepublic.com/article/1002...

i'm so excited for those of you who are learning about the Sword of Chang for the first time

HAHAHAHAHAHA this is both the best and the worst of times to be a professor of history

Probably 300-400 if it's already dead or I get to kill it. If I get to deep-fry it first, I'd do it just for the experience.

Not gonna be moving for long. Think I'd go for around $900.

do you think you could drink a 12-ounce can of soda of your choosing every day for a week for 76 million dollars? the catch is that during that week, you’re not allowed to travel to columbus, georgia unless you already had plans to or you just want to

(screenshots are from a random EA blog in the last Thing of Things linkpost, but it's a regular occurrence and always throws me for a bit of a loop)

micheljusten.substack.com/p/a-guide-to...