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@CarolBraun @__vining @ANNVYSHINSKY @zenahitz @stjohnscollege That’s fine as far as it goes, and I’m glad it worked out for him. I’m not saying he was bamboozled by St John’s or anything. But Hitz seems to think the primary source model is generally right for liberal arts, including stem, not just that it can work if you finagle it.
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@CarolBraun @__vining @ANNVYSHINSKY @zenahitz @stjohnscollege Certainly that’s wonderful, but I think it sort of undercuts Hitz’s point if you have to go far outside the institution for core knowledge. Obviously some self study is needed to be a working physicist, but it’s odd for St John’s to just ignore foundational studies.
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Carol Braun
Carol Braun@CarolBraun·
@__vining @normal_testes @ANNVYSHINSKY @zenahitz @stjohnscollege My husband went to St. John’s & went on to a physics PhD. He supplemented from modern textbooks independently & in extra tutorials, classes at other institutions, etc. Now he’s a practicing physicist with deep knowledge of the history of science & math, which alters his approach.
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John Vining
John Vining@__vining·
@normal_testes @ANNVYSHINSKY @zenahitz @stjohnscollege I have only a loose commitment to this approach, fwiw, but I think many would be benefitted by a smaller amount of math, approached with more conceptual understanding, awkwardness, weirdness. For others, blaze on.
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@__vining @ANNVYSHINSKY @zenahitz @stjohnscollege I'm not sure why you keep coming back to diff eqs (which, to your earlier point, are very important for a lot of vocations), when calc is an important building block for all kinds of other mathematics.
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John Vining
John Vining@__vining·
@normal_testes @ANNVYSHINSKY @zenahitz @stjohnscollege I come back to quoted tweet. The goal is to create a generally aware person. Oddly we need to do that in college, when others are preparing for advanced study or work. There is a mismatch there. Diff. goals. x.com/__vining/statu…
John Vining@__vining

@normal_testes @ANNVYSHINSKY @zenahitz @stjohnscollege My defense of it is that my high school calc also did not create in me a great solver of differential equations. And in doing so, it also failed to instill in me a conceptual understanding of or a love for the math.

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@__vining @ANNVYSHINSKY @zenahitz @stjohnscollege I don't think the objection is vocational vs liberal. I accept that something like what you were taught might be more interesting to someone interested in the history, wanting small exposure etc. But actually knowing calc is important for a lot of mathematics (as a liberal art)!
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@__vining @ANNVYSHINSKY @zenahitz @stjohnscollege I think part of the objection would be that knowing the history of calculus, its history etc, doesn't really set one up for using it as a building block for future knowledge. e.g. could you go into a mathematical stats course and do the necessary moves to get say, the CLT?
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John Vining
John Vining@__vining·
@normal_testes @ANNVYSHINSKY @zenahitz @stjohnscollege The goal is to understand the fundamental ideas of calc. It doesn't make great solvers of differential equations, that's for sure. But I felt like I had a sense of What Calc Was, the History and Discovery of it, etc.
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@LeftistCPA @constans @katewillett Well no, I don’t think that it’s any one person is the reason, rather, many of you get together to gain and then wield power. 2. Most empirical lit suggests market rate housing does drive prices down across all strata, because it frees us stock.
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LeftistAccountant 🧮🧾✍️@LeftistCPA·
@normal_testes @constans @katewillett you think a random account on twitter dot com is the reason more housing cant be built? or that any of the 'activities' you or folx like u engage in move the needle at all? issabout money. new housing is gonna be priced above most folx wallets. rents/prices still wont come down 2
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Kate Willett
Kate Willett@katewillett·
A major new study has confirmed what many of us know from reading all previous research. Socialists in NYC should care about this, bc Mayor Mamdani has filled his administration with developer hawks in hopes of delivering the Affordability Agenda. It won’t.
Kate Willett tweet media
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@LeftistCPA @constans @katewillett I mean, I write letters to the editor of papers, letters to my congressmen and city council etc. I vote for pro housing candidates and the like. But in politics, there’s often an opposing team doing similar things. My pops are just opposing housing because they’re dumb or mean
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@zenahitz @stjohnscollege How do you teach Calculus or Linear Algebra? It seems like to match a course in a regular university, you'd need to draw from a huge number of primary sources.
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John Vining
John Vining@__vining·
@ANNVYSHINSKY @zenahitz @stjohnscollege Reading selections from Euclid, Ptolemy, Leibniz, Newton and many others (for math). Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, etc. Doing the proofs in class for math, discussion + labs for the rest.
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Zena Hitz
Zena Hitz@zenahitz·
Hard disagree. One question: Why would it be that the original sources are confused about what they are doing, but today's researchers are not? Is it magic? Of course, original scientific papers don't bring you up to date on the latest thing. They do help you to see foundations.
Chad Orzel@orzelc

@zenahitz Really not the best approach in STEM, where the original sources are often very confused about what they're doing, use obsolete notation, etc , where modern textbook treatments have a more complete understanding and fully developed formalism.

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@acceptdystopia @jimmygandhi @MarcoFoster_ @grahamformaine If it’s easily handled locally, I take it you support the repeal of Biden’s XO? Or of Title IX generally? You complain that I don’t focus on real stuff, but you have no such fire for the other side, who do actually try to do federal stuff on this issue.
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acceptdystopia@acceptdystopia·
@normal_testes @jimmygandhi @MarcoFoster_ @grahamformaine Hey Mr “normal” testes, you engaged me on it, you’re wasting both our time. This is a trivial issue, easily handled via local & state school athletic orgs. Even pro trans athlete orgs concede testing w standards higher than Olympics is the path here. Vote on real stuff instead
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Marco Foster
Marco Foster@MarcoFoster_·
Graham Platner: “Every single breath we take discussing culture war stuff is a breath we are not talking about universal healthcare. It’s a breath we are not talking about going after wealth where it’s been hoarded. Not talking about breaking up corporate monopoly power. That’s what we need to be focusing on. But we do not sell people out. A politics that is willing to sell anyone out will eventually sell everyone out”
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@acceptdystopia @jimmygandhi @MarcoFoster_ @grahamformaine 1. Not sure why you’re talking about the NCAA specifically, when Title IX applies to e.g. high school leagues as well. 2. If it’s not attention worthy, why do you only complain when one side talks about it? If it’s complaint worthy that others give the issue attention…
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@acceptdystopia @jimmygandhi @MarcoFoster_ @grahamformaine One obvious way in which culture war crap is subject to a federal role is Title IX. On Biden’s first day, he signed an EO clarifying that Bostock protected mtf participation in all title IX women’s sports. If you think that’s good or bad, that’s relevant to federal elections.
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acceptdystopia@acceptdystopia·
@jimmygandhi @MarcoFoster_ @grahamformaine No. It’s an acknowledgment that culture war crap is not subject to any federal role. There is no culture czar. If you don’t like the new Cracker Barrel logo or Colin Kaepernick. Fine. If someone is a jerk about pronouns, sorry. But it’s not relevant to federal elections.
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John Ganz@lionel_trolling·
@RichardHanania God, even your writing is like a slime: it oozes, it leaves a film behind. It gives such an unclean feeling to read it.
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John Ganz@lionel_trolling·
I don't think highly of you in any way. You're such a miserable creep that you try to suck up to me even when I'm insulting you. Have some self-respect.
Richard Hanania@RichardHanania

I think highly of Ganz as a writer, and won’t change my opinion based on these clear signs of mental illness, though it should make you consider his ability to think rationally (as should many of his views, of course). I wrote about him here. richardhanania.com/p/the-rightoid…

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@mattyglesias I’m curious where townhouses lie in Cass’ taxonomy of appropriateness-of-build-to-rent. Family friendly dwellings that private landlords should keep their paws off, or acceptably transient?
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@oren_cass Your typical family does buy things like townhomes and condos tho. You need not buy the whole building to buy the residence!
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Oren Cass@oren_cass·
7/ I'm also perplexed by people asking "why are BTR apartment buildings OK but BTR houses not?" Um, because your typical family can't buy an apartment building, never has bought an apartment building, doesn't want to. Nor are they built in the same places.
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Oren Cass
Oren Cass@oren_cass·
1/ Folks, Build-to-Rent isn't some indispensable source of supply in a healthy housing market. It's mostly a recent phenomenon, driven by arbitrage opportunities, and leading toward a bad equilibrium. 🧵
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normal_testes@normal_testes·
@mean_field_zane Why? Are questions like ‘is Tyler Cowen a good public intellectual’ within the expertise? If not, why value their opinion over Joe six pack’s?
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𝔐𝔽𝓩@mean_field_zane·
You guys should go ask an actual academic economist what they think of Tyler Cowen, who is ostensibly supposed to be an economist. The answer might surprise you.
tedfrank@tedfrank

Every once in a while a few times a year, Tyler Cowen interviews a top-ten expert who hasn’t thought about his topic anywhere nearly as deeply as Tyler Cowen, and, even on a car sound system, you can see the subsonic waves of panic emanating from the guest.

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