bernise
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@bernise
#methodgeek Wrestles w complex systems science for its applications to wicked problems. Love music, physics, serendipity, even humans
I use computers for mathematics so much that sometimes I opt to do a really nasty piece of tensor calculus by hand just to convince myself I've still got it. Just calculated the covariant divergence of a rank-4 tensor density correctly in one shot. Took 3 pages. I feel *alive*.
It's fine to organize seminar series to criticize another scholar's ideas, but it crosses a line if you run them over with a car.
over time, i came to understand. souls will commit suicide if they can't feel themselves. and some environments systematically raise kids who couldn't feel their soul their economic output was good, and their knowledge was impressive, but they were dying at the soul
🧵Here's a thread about an obscure economic theory from a century and a half ago, which is about to become a MASSIVE deal. ⚡️It helps explains why tackling climate change is going to be v v hard. Some say impossible. The story begins with this building👇
