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“Nothing need happen in the poem because the poem is to be itself the happening.”
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Prad Nelluru, quantum satis
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Prad Nelluru, quantum satis
@pradnelluru
art, film, literature
New York, NY Beigetreten Mayıs 2013
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@gonglei89 The US can’t really do supply-side subsidies because of a lack of state capacity, and ideology.
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@gonglei89 It’s strange to visit an “input cheap” country: lots of things that look expensive everywhere: electronic kiosks, neon signs, asphalt roads, just material abundance.
The US is more focused on demand-side subsidies (Ie: Medicare, SNAP, 401ks, 529s, EICT).
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Part of the safety net in China is that investments in abundant supply makes life so cheap even gig workers can save for a house and their kid’s education and still have leftover leisure money. Ever thought about building an economy with enough abundance to not need welfare?
Kevin A. Bryan@Afinetheorem
Great essay: West and China largely understand each other via social media. It's a problem. Also West misunderstands Chinese safety nets: there is de facto not really a safety net at all in China! That's *why* so much money can go into infrastructure and industrial policy.
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@Demon_Realms The American Revolution contains the kernel of subsequent American history: federalism, market-supremacy, compromise with slavery and westward expansion. The only new things that come up are the American Dream, and superpower status.
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The American "revolution" has got to be the most boring but important historical event ever. A small group of landowners got sick of paying a pretty meagre amount of taxes and fought a stage managed war against an enemy that was totally asleep at the wheel
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@TedAlcorn Who cares? Rents went up 1% bc uncapped AirBnBs. I want to restrict you from renting your place out.
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As a longtime renter in NYC who traveled a lot for work, when Airbnb was allowed I was able to recoup ~1/3 of my rent by subletting while I was away + hosted scores of intrepid often overseas travelers looking for a more authentic way to explore less-traveled parts of the city.
Billy Binion@billybinion
When NYC effectively banned Airbnb, the primary effect was that hotel prices skyrocketed. So not only is housing still expensive, but now lower-income people can’t even visit. Super helpful, great job everyone.
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@miraflux Profoundly sad story and a call to justice.
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@JEBistline This is good! Export to other states! More clean energy is good!
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Texas just passed California in utility-scale solar. And it's not close in wind or energy storage.
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@simonsarris As the only city in America, NYC gets to monopolize a country’s worth of ambitious people across like 25 modes of existence.
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serious question: what is good about New York City?
I've never been, though I've been to Paris (several times), London, Rome, Istanbul, Montreal, Boston, San Francisco (but no other US cities)
kasey@kaseyklimes
@rachelclif as a former city planner, I can say, objectively and empirically, *clears throat*: being new york city
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@byistra Only a great writer would use “Caroline” as an adjective for his friend Charles.
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@sialgoraya No? Wear in the modern world comes from industry, human capital, state capacity. Car factories and software companies don’t have much to do with river systems.
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@jimfornyc Oh yes the thing that makes California the fourth biggest economy in the world… let’s ban that.
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Welcome to New New York. Where we find every opportunity to chase businesses away.
shortstopmedia.substack.com/p/new-york-mov…
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@bryancsk The US throws away the talents of millions of kids. You need things to go right every year for 20 years to get into a leading academic position.
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In Singapore it is approximately 0. Probably in a country like the United States with a really developed education system that is well able to sort its talent, the number is also vanishingly small.
Paul Novosad@paulnovosad
For every Math Olympiad team member, I'm curious how many kids are there with as much capability, but never had a chance to take advanced math, went to a school without a math/club team, never even knew doing harder math at their age was a possibility. Is it 10? 100?
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“In 1942, Mituhisa Takasaki introduced an algebraic structure which he called a kei (圭), which would later come to be known as an involutive quandle.“
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@paulnovosad Even in schools with these opportunities how many are encouraging kids who are not immediately superstars? Selecting already-great kids is the easy part.
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For every Math Olympiad team member, I'm curious how many kids are there with as much capability, but never had a chance to take advanced math, went to a school without a math/club team, never even knew doing harder math at their age was a possibility. Is it 10? 100?
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Beginning of the end of mamdani era and it’s a special election in manhattan where the winner got 5000 votes lol
Benny Polatseck@BPolatseck
The beginning of the end of the Mamdani era is here.
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I invented a nuclear-bomb-driven microwave beam that could cook cities from orbit. I didn't tell anybody about it for decades because I thought it was an infohazard. Years later, I realized that it wouldn't work for very good physics reasons. Now no hazard, but also not interesting.
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@sjolarc Maybe this doesn’t happen as much in like India because the past is still so present: religious sites that still exist are still active, not buried in the jungle so to say. And much of the past is totally neglected, forgotten. So there’s a thick present, more than you’d expect!
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Latin America has a peculiar topography that enforces a kind of temporal inconsistency that emerges from the coexistence of multiple temporalities in the same geographic space. Ex: the same landscape that hid pre-Columbian cities later served to hide political prisoners.
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“… the tendency to ‘regard the highly contingent achievements of our culture as the final form and norm of human existence’.”
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@FilmUpdates @VanityFair Good luck trying to recreate one of the greatest performances by an actress, ever.
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Director Parker Finn with his ‘POSSESSION’ remake stars Margaret Qualley and Callum Turner.
(via: @VanityFair | vanityfair.com/hollywood/stor…)
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@learning_mech Are we saying this because it’s not possible to give a completely mathematical description? Physics is limited by what we can observe, the experiments we can conduct, as well as new math. I suppose DL experiments may be too expensive, too?
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1/ Deep learning is going to have a scientific theory. We can see the pieces starting to come together, and it's looking a lot like physics!
We're releasing a paper pulling together these emerging threads and giving them a name: learning mechanics.
🔨 arxiv.org/pdf/2604.21691 🔧
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@MLSophist “Things that happened for $500 Alex”
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