joshsilverman

@mopenshaw @Aviation_Intel ¿jihadist?

@Aviation_Intel Attacking an island that's overflowing with flammable oil, surely chock full of enraged jihadists with guns and explosives. And well within bombardment range by short-range , ballistics and drones from shore. Maybe not the best idea.

When you think of a Marine Expeditionary Unit in context of this conflict, one target comes to mind: Kharg Island where the majority of Iran's oil exports flow. Untouched by the conflict yet due to its strategic value and critical infrastructure. Seizing it would be a huge deal and would be a risky operation. Not just the seizing, but more so the staying. If Iran thought it was lost, they could bombard it with pretty much everything they have. Also, unlikely to push the MEU into the Persian Gulf. Would be aerial operation, also not without risks.

@yalinewich @aryehazan this is the way

@aryehazan Another equivalent way to think about it is that it is always possible to rotate the reference frame such that one vector has the form (1,0,...0) and then the distribution of the scalar product is the same as the distribution of the first element in the second vector

yes, the inner product of two independent m-dimensional gaussians decays roughly exponentially in m

@JDVance now do Israel

During my senate campaign in 2022, I met a Ukrainian-American man in NE Ohio. He was very angry about my views on the conflict, and my desire to bring it to a rapid close. "You are trying to abandon my country, and I don't like it." "Sir, I replied, "your country is the United States of America, and so is mine." I always found it offensive that a new immigrant to our country would be willing to use the power and influence of their new nation to settle the ethnic rivalries of the old. One of the most important parts of assimilation is seeing *your* country as the USA. It's part of the bargain: if you're welcomed into our national family, you ought to look out for the interests of the United States. I know many immigrants who have the right perspective, and I'm grateful to them. For example, I met many Ukrainian Americans during that campaign (and since) who agreed with my views, or at the very least, asked the right question: what is in the best interests of the United States?

@mansourtarek_ @TeflonBust @Kalshi @KalshiMarkets @mansourtarek_ when do you plan to "get back"?

@TeflonBust @Kalshi @KalshiMarkets We’ll get back

@Kalshi @kalshimarkets @mansourtarek_ It looks like you closed the TikTok ban market very quickly. Can you confirm which government website source you are using to confirm the ban? It doesn’t appear any of the 3 listed sources in the rules have yet. Thanks.

for J = 38, this is 454. we can also think about the value of s(1) given the value of J, s(1|J). we found this follows s(1|J) ≈ 0.32 J^2 very closely, and offer it without justification. @nah951413

in symbols, this is s(n) = s(n+1) + s(n) % (n+1) where s(n) is the smallest value satisfying the equation. we can recurse from the upper bound J where s(J) = J down to the number of people who must have started the game s(1).

for #ThisWeeksFiddler (standard credit), the number of survivors in round s(n+1) is the number of survivors of round n minus the number of those left ungrouped in round (n+1). @xaqwg

@_StagStories_ @samad88 @navrajsinghdhal @zzzTater @JacobThomper @theoscarhoole @rustinpeace33 but can spotify offer unpredictable queue behavior, freeze up on large music libraries, or randomly give certain albums different UI convention than others despite appearing the same? i don't think so!

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@PhDPersuasion @drmtgr @MathMatize we're on the same team

@_joshsilverman @drmtgr @MathMatize An integral operator assigning a discrete measure

Putting the differential left of the function

@PhDPersuasion @drmtgr @MathMatize it's a damn operator

@drmtgr @MathMatize As a measure theorist I can get behind \int dk

@MathMatize it's a damn operator

Horrifying

*set of minima

but when θ is π/4, we get a repulsive peak at the origin surrounded by stable minima. these are a bit contrived as they're projections formed by holding θ still by fiat, but as it happens, these values of theta are the ones corresponding to the global minima.

in #thisweeksfiddler we find stable arrangements for magnatiles, magical magnet tiles that stick to each other regardless of spins and flips. first, how are the magnets arranged? joshmaxsilverman.github.io/2024-11-17-mag… @xaqwg