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"This may be a graduate class, but it's still called Algebra, so we're doing the quadratic formula on the first day!" --me, apparently
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Noah Snyder
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@pentestingnoot @rieszspieces This is absolutely false. Every state flagship has a calculus class is a counterexample.
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@rieszspieces Kids who get 3s on AP Calc are not going to colleges with calc classes worth their salt
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this is definitely not true for any undergrad calc class worth its salt
Bryan Caplan@bryan_caplan
APs are getting easier, but they are still highly meritocratic compared to not just high school grades but college grades. Most students who get an A in a college class would be lucky to get a 3 on the corresponding AP.
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@Lithros @mattyglesias Part of why it's the best.
Much like why Fury Road (whole movie) is the best car chase scene.
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@mattyglesias Hard Boiled is amazing but 'hospital shootout' describes the entire second half of the movie
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Hard Boiled hospital shootout!
Love Classical Music and Movies 🎺🎻💖🎥🎬@AlexTran677026
Best shootout scene in a movie ever?
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@SashaGusevPosts @littmath @samth @isaiah_bb Here’s an older version of the policy. It does not look like former students were covered directly, but depending on how you read it, it probably requires reporting to the chair.
#Consensual%20Relations" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">web.archive.org/web/2015030410…
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@NoahJSnyder @littmath @samth @isaiah_bb It's definitely prohibited *now* and I'm pretty confident it was prohibited in 2004 for students with academic overlap, though I couldn't track down the relevant section of the faculty handbook.
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Professors shouldn’t be hooking up with students, even when they aren’t teaching them in particular, but it’s hard for me to get super exercised about a 26 year old assistant professor (grad student assistant?) kissing a 20 year old undergrad a few times?
Ryan Grim@ryangrim
Wachspress has now published an essay about her allegation. She says that she was a junior when she was Biss’ student, in roughly 2004 when he’d have been about 26. He waited until the course was over and asked her out. They “made out” a few times, she says, and then he broke it off, saying he shouldn’t date a student.
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@SashaGusevPosts @littmath @samth @isaiah_bb I’d say “covered by the important social norms that faculty should not date undergraduates, especially in their department, and most of all former students.”
“Prohibition” sounds like you think this was banned by UChicago in 2004. This seems unlikely to me? (Do you know it was?)
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@littmath @NoahJSnyder @samth @isaiah_bb a postdoc position that is bound by the prohibition on faculty-student romantic relationships
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@SashaGusevPosts @samth @littmath @isaiah_bb Yes, they're temporary non-renewable 3-year faculty positions that usually (especially 20 years ago) go to someone who just got their PhD. This is a very typical usage of the word "postdoc" in math.
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@NoahJSnyder @samth @littmath @isaiah_bb IMO the key distinction is whether a person in this position is considered a member of the faculty. At least according the current UChicago jobs listing (academicjobs.uchicago.edu/positions/1645…) they are.
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@samth @littmath @SashaGusevPosts @isaiah_bb Dean: "So you mean some guy named Dickson paid to endow them?"
Mathematicians: "No, you pay for them. Dickson was just a really important guy in the department back in the early 1900s, so we thought it was nice to name it after him."
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@samth @littmath @SashaGusevPosts @isaiah_bb "Well you see, an LE Dickson Instructor, like a Benjamin Pierce Fellow, or a Ritt Assistant Professor, is what we call a "named postdoc" and only exists in math departments. They only last 3 years (4 for Ritt!), but are not grant funded."
Hell *Deans* don't understand it.
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QME
@littmath @SashaGusevPosts @samth @isaiah_bb Found proof. He wrote an oped (against doing math online) in the Notices in Nov. 2004. The bio reads: "Daniel Biss is a Dickson Instructor at the University of Chicago and a Research Fellow at the Clay Mathematics Institute."
Dickson Instructor is UChicago for postdoc.
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@littmath @samth @SashaGusevPosts @isaiah_bb I think (90% sure, not 100%) that what's going on is that he was a postdoc at Chicago 2002-2005 and then an Assistant Professor *also at Chicago* from 2005 onwards. The reason I'm reasonably confident is that my understanding is that he was on the TT job market in 2005.
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@samth @SashaGusevPosts @isaiah_bb Hmm looks like a Clay Fellowship in 2002 so could actually have been a postdoc.
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@Alicoh1 @littmath @samth @mattyglesias People are getting confused because they don’t know what “assistant professor” means (it’s not an assistant to the professor!) and because he was somewhat unusually young to hold that job.
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Don’t really understand what the alleged impropriety here even is.
Popstonox@Popstonox
Daniel Biss, candidate for IL-09 in tomorrow's election, has been accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student during his tenure as a professor at the University of Chicago Megan Wachspress, now a Stanford law lecturer, says she was that student
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Whoa! Science backs the “just give lots of Cs” argument that I’m always making.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
High school teachers who grade average students' work too leniently do real long-term harm. econweb.umd.edu/~pope/Grade_In…
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@NoahJSnyder @Jauris @Colin_d_m So it’s a little misleading because of how the map is gerrymandered. 24 is diluted through Tarrant, 32 is stretched all the way to East Texas.
Dallas County trails only Travis (Austin) as the bluest in the state (D+24 in 2024).
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NYC looks like this every summer. The people posting this slop don’t see that because they live in suburban Dallas.
Sassafrass84@Sassafrass_84
Me too.
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@EconBerger @mattyglesias Knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein is not the name of the monster, wisdom is knowing that Frankenstein was a monster.
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@mattyglesias Common misconception. Frankenstein’s *monster* got so many nominations
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It’s crazy that Frankenstein got so many nominations … did people not notice that the movie was bad?
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@Jauris @ShehanJeyarajah @Colin_d_m I was curious, so I looked it up. This is at the border between a 66% Harris district and a 52% Trump district. Given the age distribution this is probably still a pretty heavily Dem crowd, but the area isn't as heavily Dem as I was expecting.
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@littmath I wonder whether there's a library that has his papers? I tried googling, and found two interesting things (but not what I was looking for):
1. His complete works includes a bunch of letters to Gauss.
2. His marginal notes on Disquisitiones survive.
projecteuclid.org/ebooks/advance…
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PS. Of course please let me know if you have any other plausible theories as to what Eisenstein had in mind here!
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Yesterday I posted the thread below, in which I explain a mystery from Gotthold Eisenstein's last paper, written the year he died at the age of 29. In this thread I want to explain my best guess as to its resolution. 1/n
Daniel Litt@littmath
Gotthold Eisenstein was one of the most important mathematicians of the 19th century; despite his death of tuberculosis in 1852 at the age of 29, Gauss apparently put him in the same league as Archimedes and Newton. This thread is about a mystery from his last paper. 1/n
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@norwoodiancynic @BruneElections Not as insane as Mao missing the list!?
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@mattyglesias Are there any great examples of localities that have successfully put in a process that resulted in a high rate of attractive new buildings?
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I think we should say “five over ones are fine, and we should try to make them more attractive by encouraging builders to give them more traditional-looking façades rather than the current design standards that strike most people as ugly.”
Mark Gibson@Delmarkva
... as @GaryWinslett points out: "... Five-Over-Ones are glorious! ... They represent walkable neighborhoods where street-level retail thrives because there are enough residents to support local businesses." therebuild.pub/p/in-defense-o…
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@NeilShenvi @matthenryyoung I learned this! From one of the parents on my middle school mathcounts team. I still teach it sometimes in Honors Calculus I.
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@matthenryyoung I'd also note that many of the problems on this exam show how technology has changed what we think of as "advanced math." For example, virtually no one learns how to calculate square roots manually today because of calculators.
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This is why old Harvard Entrance exams look like:
1) Translate the Preamble to the Constitution into Greek, Latin, and Hebrew.
2) If there are 2.54 centimeters in an inch, how many centimeters are there in a yard?
Neil Shenvi@NeilShenvi
One legitimate criticism of "classical education" is that it can undervalue the importance of STEM because it developed long before the explosion of scientific and mathematical knowledge in the 19th-20th centuries. That said, there's a simple fix: teach more STEM!
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@AndrewYang I don't think that's the reason. Why do you think that's the reaaon?
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It makes me sad when friends who are not American decide not to visit or are curbing travel here because they don’t think they’re wanted.
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