@mr_scientism Influential, yes, but not as respected as math or physics, at least online like here
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Grey Enlightenment
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@0x49fa98 unpopular option: I find that eating bad food kills boredom and spurs motivation
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if you aren't hungry enough to eat healthy food, you aren't hungry, just bored
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@ScottMGreer By 2028 it will likely be over and Trump's successor can tout it as a win. Unless of course it goes badly...
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Three things that are true:
1) The Iran war is unpopular with the majority of Americans, including independents who voted for Trump
2) Trump's core voters, in contrast to the rest of the public, are fine with it.
3) The GOP needs more than MAGA Republicans to win elections.
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@CoachDanGo not that surprising. the correlation between size and strength is not as high as commonly assumed.
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Reminds me of the video where a climber who was 2x smaller than Larry Wheels was easily back rowing the same weight.
Functional strength is a real thing.
The Boulderer@crimpandclimbhq
One arm pull up on the beastmaker crimp
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@Empty_America happiness research is useless and hopelessly confounded
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Happiness studies are so strange.
When you see Costa Rica, Romania and Belize in the same top 10 as Iceland and Finland, you really wonder what is even being measured.
The Mind Scourge@TheMindScourge
Israel is the 8th happiest country in the world, and 3rd happinest amongst those 25 and under In general, the happiest countries for the young would be very hard to predict; for example, Serbia is world-leading here, and Romania is 7th
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@MartinShkreli Sports betting has been around since sports. it cannot be 'banned' . it' already heavily regulated. If low IQ people want to blow their money on sports betting, who cares. They re going to lose it one way or another.
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the sports betting markets (they're not "prediction" markets) have to be banned. there is no other way.
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Old post The Stats You Need: Divorce Rates and Harvard’s Acceptance Rate
greyenlightenment.com/2024/05/17/mar…
Stats that purport low divorce rates and comparisons to Harvard's acceptance rate are misleading
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i think this meme is hilarious. my take on all this: the point of introspection is to end up thinking less, not more, to be more in the flow, more productive, to dissolve into being itself. if your introspection is making you think more i recommend getting another one
Pablo A. Penietzsche@PabloPeniche
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You can teach a naturally creative mind to focus, but it’s infinitely harder to teach a naturally focused mind to be creative.
Quant Science@quantscience_
"You can teach a physicist finance but you cannot teach a finance person physics." - Jim Simons
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@siobhan_huggins lol and there is no assurance you will even lose enough weight to get that nice slim look either
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you forgot some of the side effects like loss of libido, food obsession, severe emotional distress, lower limb edema, depression, and self-mutilation
but nbd I'm sure it's totes worth it
Siim Land@siimland
The craziest study ever - The Minnesota Starvation Experiment 32 young men were put on a 40% calorie-restricted diet for 6 months, while staying physically very active They lost 25% of their body weight by the end of it Here's what this study contributed to longevity research
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“Near the beginning of my career, I got the Fields Medal. And near the end, I’m getting the Abel Prize,” Faltings says. “It’s a nice duality.” scientificamerican.com/article/gerd-f…
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@RogierBrussee Sometimes complicated language encodes a mediocre result. I read a paper (when working on my own paper) where the author used a modern k-theoretic approach. I used classical analysis and found an objectively better result, and also rederived his.
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This is rather a beautiful example of modern math with very precise and profound statements (not to mention the great use Litt made of it for proving that certain Taylor expansions have rational coefficients) that look like total gibberish to those outside (and many inside) math.
Daniel Litt@littmath
Faltings wins the Abel prize! Obviously his work is immensely influential; in my own research I've used his results on p-adic Hodge theory quite a bit. Aside from his proof of the Mordell conjecture, this is my favorite result of his:
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@Math_files Is that all it takes to write a recommendation letter? It's more like an endorsement than a substantive critique
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@0xGeeGee lol the stock is only down 11%. ppl acting like this is an enron-like situation. Stocks go down 11% even when reporting spotless earnings reports.
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This man is a billionaire and was removing labels with a hair dryer personally, you're simply not grinding hard enough
NIK@ns123abc
🚨BREAKING: SUPER MICRO CO-FOUNDER ARRESTED FOR SMUGGLING $2.5B IN NVIDIA GPUs TO CHINA >SMCI co-founder Yih-Shyan "Wally" Liaw arrested today >personally holds $464 MILLION in SMCI stock >charged with smuggling BILLIONS in Nvidia servers to china >used a southeast asian shell company to funnel $2.5B in servers to chinese buyers >$510 million worth shipped in just THREE WEEKS in spring 2025 >built thousands of fake dummy servers to fool U.S compliance auditors >caught on surveillance camera using a HAIR DRYER to swap serial number stickers >coordinated the whole thing over encrypted group chats >SMCI down 12% after hours >faces up to 30 years in federal prison ITS SO OVER…
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@Empty_America @hamiltonsucks76 @jonatanpallesen yeah, agree. Today's geniuses in quant , AI, FAMNG+ would easily surpass the equivalents 50+ years ago in terms of raw ability. Calculus before college was very rare 70 years go, now it's expected. The expectation is to place well in math competitions, which is far harder.
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@hamiltonsucks76 @jonatanpallesen Look into the Flynn effect.
Yes, if you were giving a 2026 normed IQ test, the current generation of engineers under 30 would score higher than any prior generation.
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The total number of smart people in the world has just peaked.
And now it's about to crash.
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@ryan_landay @OriolesIdiot @wutawor1d @Empty_America @jonatanpallesen I dispute the notion today's generation is dumber. We would not expect significant IQ changes in a 2-3 generations.
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@OriolesIdiot @wutawor1d @Empty_America @jonatanpallesen Some of them are still around but they’re very old now. E.g. Gene Kranz who was Lead Flight Director for Apollo 13 is 92. He was 36 at the time.
My claim is that there have always been young people and today’s young people are not necessarily smarter.
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@ryan_landay @wutawor1d @Empty_America @jonatanpallesen low hanging fruit picked, more regulation, more safety controls. much of the improvement is incremental and ensuring people do not die . it's not an insufficient talent or insufficient IQ issue.
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@wutawor1d @Empty_America @jonatanpallesen > 20-30 cohorts are so much smarter than the old heads.
Pretty bold claim considering that the pace of innovation in aerospace peaked in the 1960s
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@wutawor1d @Empty_America @jonatanpallesen Yeah, this shows how bifurcated America is in terms of talent. On one extreme, remedial college algebra. On the other, math or coding Olympiads.
'Old heads' were not taking calculus at 12, not maxing out AP courses, not maxing out SATs, math competition maxxing , github, etc.
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@Empty_America @jonatanpallesen I’m a young engineer working in aerospace. It’s true.
20-30 cohorts are so much smarter than the old heads. They just don’t have the same exposure to tech
Some of these kids have been coding since 14, using ai for a half decade already, advanced math all their life, etc
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