Scott Edgar

I say this all the time. The twenty-first century is going to be the century of the nineteenth century!

Mostly unrelated, but I find it funny that we're getting excited about fancy new electric buses, when Canadian cities had those literally 75 years ago.

I've often struggled to figure out how best to complain about taxes but from the left. The right has absolutely eaten our lunch on this front.

A red brick piazza, seen from behind a set of orange plaster arches. At the end of the piazza is a red brick building with blue sky behind it.

Midday walk.

It is an odd time to be a citizen of a functioning, law-governed constitutional monarchy.

I don't mean to suggest that Americans should adopt such a system. But I find it weird for them to think the very idea is a conceptual impossibility.

For me, wisdom is knowing when to Not Bother.

The lay people are getting Popper and Kuhn very wrong. I think I'm going to give them all a very wide berth.

Oh, no. Looks like some history of philosophy of science has broken containment. This is extremely dangerous for all of us.

economics is so deeply divorced from reality, when someone does empirical research that conflicts with a model, they call it a "paradox"...

There are no human resources problems that can't be solved with murder.

I hope the cafes make those two days productive!

Every time I post this I know it sounds like a joke, and every time, I'm serious:

You cannot expect academic work to happen on a campus with no open coffee shops.

I'm sure this is true in many fields of writing, but: The easiest way to write a big attention-getting piece on some area of culture is if you don't know enough about it to know how many of your impressive, sweeping statements about it are wrong

"Die Verschiedenheit der Dinge aufzulösen in Unterschiede der Ideen - das ist das Geheimniss des Idealismus . Die Geschichte des menschlichen Denkens enthüllt dieses Geheimniss , und damit sich selbst als Geschichte des Idealismus."

Now we're cooking.

Nothing says "community" like hating the idea of new neighbours!

There are going to be universities that make their identity "we teach students how to think for themselves and how to communicate those thoughts sincerely to other human beings." And my university is absolutely not going to do that.

Apparently, "what makes community" doesn't include people with places to live.

I've said this before, but:

The burrito places that give you a fixed menu of burritos makes better burritos than the places that let you build your own burrito however you want. That's because the burrito chef makes better burritos than you do.

LLMs have convincingly demonstrated that coding is the easiest activity, maths is medium hard, and having taste is the hardest

I'm so sorry, Jillian. It's a grief unlike any other.

Pierre & Natasha are the Chandler & Monica of WAR AND PEACE, and Helène is obviously the Rachel. It's less clear who the Phoebe is.

i am so ready for quantum to be the next dumb buzzword the tech industry forces everyone to pretend to care about. "how are you incorporating quantum into your daily work?" i'm not but it's so refreshing you asked me a new and different stupid question

In a Reviewer #2 kind of mood.

Very fair point.

The bandaid metaphor is telling in this case. Bandaids are great! And recommended by medical professionals as temporary remedies you should use while waiting for longer-term healing to happen!

So: ban STRs until the supply of housing catches up with demand, then lift the ban.

Everyone's making fun of this. But if it was 1200 pages long, it would be a Neal Stephenson bestseller.

Happy Thanksgiving to my compatriots, but also to Justin Vernon and Jen Wasner singing blue-eyed soul.

It is an incredible privilege, and also a constant reminder of how privilege makes us dumber.

Just goes to show how well straight men can do dating, so long as they're smart, kind, emotionally intelligent musicians who are good to their nephews.

Honestly, this makes a lot more sense for him than being PM ever did.