FD4280
9mo ago
Struck me as very childish. Stopped there.
In retrospect, Hunter X Hunter had the same issue and turned out great. Might be grounds for giving it another shot.
FD4280
10mo ago
Having spent a decade in math departments (as a master’s student, then adjunct, then doctoral student), nearly all the professors were way brighter than I, and it was obvious very quickly.
The exceptions:
- Some but not all of the math ed specialists.
- Some of the oldest profs, especially US-educated ones, were closer to the stronger students in ability - the competition for tenure track positions was not as insane in the 80s.
FD4280
10mo ago
Two thirds of the way through Seveneves. Would have probably dropped it if not for some nostalgia for Stephenson’s older works. The writing is bloated, and the cast before the time jump feels excessively SJW-flavored.
FD4280
10mo ago
Trump. After the tremendous bad faith of the Covid response, the summer of BLM, and the social media control shenanigans of the last election, I’d take Xi or MBS (or even Putin, if I had no connection to the war zone) over any Dem.
FD4280
10mo ago
They (counting unified/Western only) also averaged 6-7 years on the job. I can’t think of one who was replaced and lived afterwards.
FD4280
10mo ago
Algebraic geometry and most of number theory on top. Graph theory and most of combinatorics toward the bottom (I am here). The basis is largely the minimum difficulty of producing independent, original work.
Getting spoonfed or rubber-stamped in a high status area, like Piper Harron, does not confer high status.
FD4280
10mo ago
You provide lots of accurate media representation of communists in power, with emphasis on the early Soviet Union. Or turn it up to 11 as was done with the Nazis, at the cost of integrity and a few contrarians.
FD4280
10mo ago
I’m from there, haven’t been back for thirty years, and retain some nostalgia for it. Mostly want the mobiks to come back in one piece, on both sides.
Ironically, if my dad had gained custody when I was little, I’d have grown up in Kharkov and possibly died on the front as a Ukrainian mobik by now. Or I might have bailed back to Russia in ‘14, depending on the amount of roots put down by then.
Life is strange.
FD4280
10mo ago
That’s consistent. I’d probably like the guy, even if the feeling’s not mutual.
FD4280
10mo ago
I should clarify that it discusses college level and below. It is worth reading for its own sake, though.
FD4280
10mo ago
Do you think that this effect mostly comes from the relative increase in calorie intake to compensate for the exercise?
FD4280
10mo ago
Have you read Tom Wolfe’s “I Am Charlotte Simmons”? He gets into the basketball talent pipeline in some detail.
FD4280
10mo ago
There is no coverup of poor institutional practices in math. They’re in plain sight, and often equally screwed up at the college level.
FD4280
10mo ago
It’s an existential gamble, but Ukraine has the brainpower to develop nukes without external help (and their uranium deposits are west of the Dnieper).
FD4280
10mo ago
They may go beyond. Coleridge’s is clearly based on “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” but throws in bits of “Kubla Khan” too.
A link stolen from DSL: http://www.francisheaney.com/holy-tango-of-literature/
A parody poetry collection, where an anagram of the poet’s name is chosen to examine in the poet’s style. Enjoyable even if you’re not well-read; I’m not.
Highlights: Shakespeare, Chaucer, Poe, and Larkin.
Just started Ruocchio’s Empire of Silence.
On one hand, it rubs me the wrong way: it feels like a sausage made of three parts Frank Herbert (brazenly stolen tropes: parallel backstory to the Butlerian Jihad with tech limitations and mentats, a galactic empire with rigid classes, personal shields against high velocity weapons, family atomics) to one part Gene Wolfe (first person with an overload of archaic vocabulary. Too early to tell, but I’m about certain that the narrator will turn out to be unreliable as well), with an epsilon of originality in the casing. Or maybe there’s a third influence I’ve never encountered that I’m mistaking for originality.
On the other hand, it is interesting and more accessible than either influence so far.
Edit: Maybe more Wolfe than I thought. The genetically engineered nobility reflects The Fifth Head of Cerberus and its clones.
FD4280
10mo ago
What sort of disability? Can you mitigate its consequences through physical therapy or technology?
Mind sharing some details, or mentioning when you have it on Arxiv? It’d be really cool to have something better than Miller-Rabin, followed by trial division over a pre-generated list of primes if composite.
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