Hanbin Lee

The Disordered Cosmos

I have already written lots of words about this, some of which are with an editor.

I will say that I personally know the horror of people hanging out with my rapist even though they’ve heard the rumors.

I wrote about that in Rape Is Part of This Scientific Story in my first book:

The main problem with Claude Code is that you’re still making software with it and that is still really boring.

Professionals obviously have the obligation to resist such misuse of science to assault other fields and activities, but unfortunately too many themselves have joined this stupid mercenary.

This view has been so widespread everywhere where people try to draw hard lines btw what is science and not, claiming those on the other side to be inferior to the other.
They weren't just dismissing humanities but nor did they study *hard* science.

It's just me me with a double standard that it's really annoying to see math/phys people being snobbish, but it's even worse when people try to defend their argument by pretending themselves to be math/phys.

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
1/

www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

Reason to not write a long paper: journal template editing takes longer

All those theoretical physics scipop writers were criminals after all

Those men are really giving me a headache 🤮🤮

To be clear, Greene socialized with Epstein several years after he plead guilty to egregious crimes in 2008. He has claimed that he was seeking donations from Epstein. It’s time to stop tolerating evil to secure financial support in science, and I only wish AAAS had the courage to lead.

flamingtempura.github.io/bibtex-tidy/...

So lovely

It’s an easy decision. You just vaccinate the children you want to keep.

‘First feline’ Larry marks 15 years as Britain’s political top cat Larry the cat is marking 15 years as Britain’s Chief Mouser at 10 Downing Street, a symbol of stability in turbulent political times.

Larry the cat celebrates 15 years as the British government’s official rodent-catcher and unofficial first feline, a reassuring presence who has served under six prime ministers. Sometimes it seems like they have served under him.

Treatment for preeclampsia. Would be huge if results hold up.

Steven Pinker ® @sapinker • Follow I have no relationship with Epstein & have taken no funding from him. Our circles have occasionally overlapped: In 02, my lit agent invited me to join a group of east-coast TED speakers Epstein flew to CA. In 14, Krauss seated me next to him at a lunch, & someone snapped a photo. 11:09 PM • Jul 10, 2019 from Provincetown, N C

Pinker, Steven <Pinker, Steven> to Lesley Groff Mar 28, 2012 5:47 PM star_border Dear Unfortunately I'm out of town that day, but if Jeffrey is around on Monday the 16th, I'll be back and would be delighted to meet with him. Best, Steve

Okay then

The 2N scaling business is killing me

It's been an extremely weird past few days, and I have more thoughts on what happened. Let's start with the news coverage. I've talked to several reporters, and quite a few news outlets have covered the story. Ars Technica wasn't one of the ones that reached out to me, but I especially thought this piece from them was interesting (since taken down - here's the archive link). They had some nice quotes from my blog post explaining what was going on. The problem is that these quotes were not written by me, never existed, and appear to be Al hallucinations themselves.

Yikes: guy who blogged about how an AI agent published a “hit piece” against him, says (human) reporters seem to have used an LLM to read (and misreport) his blog post

theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

What a thread

Polygenic adaptation after a sudden change in environment A shift in fitness optimum of a polygenic trait rapidly introduces small frequency differences between alleles with effects aligned with and opposing the shift, which gradually translate into small di...

Deadline is making me smarter, fortunately.
elifesciences.org/articles/66697

Trump administration drops its appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. But it ...

NEW: The Trump administration has dropped its appeal of a federal court order blocking its $1.2-billion settlement demand to UCLA over alleged campus civil rights violations: www.latimes.com/california/s...

This, too, is Gender

California's wealth tax doesn't fix the real problem: Cash-poor billionaires who borrow money, tax-free, to live on | Fortune Billionaires live under "buy, borrow, die," and California's wealth tax wouldn't touch that. An estimated $1 trillion of wealth has already fled.

Another absolute necessity: outlaw the billionaire strategy of dodging taxes by living off of tax-free loans against their stocks/real estate holdings. No more "buy-borrow-die."

fortune.com/2026/01/14/w...

I finished a review in two days in the hope that mine also gets returned early (stupid superstition)

Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

“The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds, whether they actually slept with the women on offer or simply shared Epstein’s fantasies in order to gain influence.”

That is, we are not deciding between meaningfully different physical mechanisms, but rather choosing random numbers out of the blue.

In many applications without such mechanistic model behind the scene, things boil down to just picking up a random number from the real line, where 0 is chosen for no reason.

The Card & Krueger paper's null is interesting because, in some sense, their null model is exactly an alternative hypothesis: null effect appears in monopolistic competition, which is certainly a more involved structure than the default market taught in textbooks.

The problem with NHST is that very few areas are capable of deciding what a proper null hypothesis is and statistics as a discipline, of course, has no fucking clue either.

now that I have a deadline... can finally start doing work