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gradschoolfailon The Structure of a Worldview

>> Problems… —PH

With gratitude, i’d already riffen on this with “… [YC] proved its salt…”

Riffing on the schlep of “talking to users” my current (more designori-oriented?) variant is “building a marketplace Elon style”

gradschoolfailon The Structure of a Worldview

Top of my deadtree stack is Chazelle, The Discrepancy Method (1998)

(Father of the regrettably more famous Chazelle, if you’re okay californicating rabbit holes)

gradschoolfailon Huawei developing SSD-tape hybrid amid US tech restrictions

Thanks for the ref!

Not sure when i’ll get there praying for a serendipitous intersection of cargoculting nonsssociativity and diagram spelunking (aided by your hints, half-remember’d)

Although… i confess to doing the trivial thing of drawing the “cayley graph” of {rock,paper,scissors} and observing that it looks like a loopfree 3-vertex term (1 outgoing)

https://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Commutative_magma

gradschoolfailon Is Swiss as innovative as US? Are there real success stories?

If you interpret (like i do) AGI as “median human level allweather selfdriving cars”, 2030 sounds a little optimistic even for that.

If AGI is IMO 6/6(/6) 2030 might be even less optimistic but the confidence interval for “Bethlehem*” is wider..

Weeds sounds like shlep without the chutzpah while your former sounds like chutzpah without the shlep?

For the optimum (i.e. “pinnacle”) shall we use the latinate term “panache”? (Or do you have something more victorian)

*the Shoggoth shlepping towards <= welleremembered ~Edwardian poem

gradschoolfailon Ask HN: What projects are you going to work on if no need to work?

Citation for SAK? (Im getting hints that the keyphrase is “Big Step (vs Small Step) semantics)

Case study here of phoneboothknifefight elevated to a streetside assassination attempt? Positively Getting holyroman here…

You may be familiar with the following characters :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42135916

CH should be optimally hilly for the Odding in the next 3 decades :)

(More frank/brian herbert refs TK)

gradschoolfailon The Structure of a Worldview

En wiki claims (via Gorky) he was entitled to sign off as a statskiy sovetnik(‘s son)

gradschoolfailon Ask HN: What projects are you going to work on if no need to work?

Hopefully one of you will supersede von Neumann, in one mega Step

gradschoolfailon Ask HN: What projects are you going to work on if no need to work?

Teach physics to geology enthusiasts so i can land a government contract involving fossils..

(I dont need those contracts, i just desire them. Which gov is interested in fossils? The right gov)

gradschoolfailon The Structure of a Worldview

I realized the beekeeper quasidoggerel was perhaps inspired by a recent movie (2024) i hadnt heard about..

Though breaking taps violated the Thorne-Weiss rules of game playing, i appreciated the effective documentation of thymos

(Thus to him, were i a transmogrified VC would transfer sam zeloof’s genius points)

gradschoolfailon Is Swiss as innovative as US? Are there real success stories?

Upon snowcloning the Melian dialog to the context of Gwern(‘s interview)

   The foxes protect from dismissal using what they can hide and the lions suffer the misinterpretations that result from successful marketing

gradschoolfailon The Structure of a Worldview

Edit: Rao-Sturgeon Normalization

Lagniappe: https://archive.ph/G5nXO

Cultural revo for the old c. :=> wardriven emigration to the relatively hilly Eastcoast

>these prizes give me the willies … use… the money to help grad students

Echoes of JZY’s straight hook…

(Compare with the ineffective ennoblement of vM’s or Volodya illyich’s line)

gradschoolfailon The Structure of a Worldview

KST blackhole that he is, might be only approximating his inner state as Killer for better transmission.. recall that he was highly involved in Interstellar, had he been involved in Oppenheimer Bohr might have posed “can you smell the magic” to Oppie instead, dragging Nolan out of the unnecessary composer envy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42147903

(— thus channelin the other McCarthy “pachyderms may or may not have to shutup”)

gradschoolfailon The Structure of a Worldview

Its also worth placeholdering that PG’s role model is the aanglo neoEdwardian(?) (Bloomsbury) jMKeynes rather than the teutonic (neoVic) vonMises, considering the diverging hypernormal interpretations of their legacy.

(Compare with anglophile GCL?)

Refactoring KST’s (from Rainer?) “only 2 games worth playing, the opening game and the endgame”, i propose: “only 2 things worth doing: showing its possible or making it easy”

gradschoolfailon Huawei developing SSD-tape hybrid amid US tech restrictions

Not to needlessly alleviate your suffering, but what is LTL?

Of course, these Nobel Bauble driven days, “quantum memories” sound like little more than search engine bawdlerised AdWords..

gradschoolfailon The Structure of a Worldview

I do respectfully interpret {pg,tlb,rtm} as preferring to become genius hunters that fail well to remaining grad students that succeed badly..

(Thanks for reminding me of the cases of Niedermeyer and Takesaki, more appropriate to remember as them grad students rather than geniuses?)

Albeit the more apt metaproblem would be the one of enabling these “grad students” to hunt “genius projects” in teams. not sure if YC itself was meant to be this kind of genius project— i cant tell if that project proved its salt by seducing the {OGs} with a barrage of noble, monastic yet fecund suffering… perhaps not, since they kinda moved on to comfortable spiessig lives (as have their successors, mostly)

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vM (good or bad faith?) sidestepped the “Rao Normalization” issue by citing only nonSTEM “geniuses”, YC embraced 2 rounds of “Rao Normalization”: “finding our ikigai by hiring G/GS to find what pple want”

gradschoolfailon The Structure of a Worldview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7xH9ZSp_B4?t=10s

(Compare with how Zeloof was positioning (his ikigai) to Jim Keller)

This guy, by bringing attention to his emo, sells to fellow phykers (with positive volume p-cone intersection)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42160940

merge traffick fore the window closeth?

gradschoolfailon The Structure of a Worldview

In other words,

  “All preferences are subjective but some ikigais locally align (or at least have positive inner product*)”

In yet further words, Each of us would like to find our ikigai-trading neighbors so as to figure out the pareto-optimal way to move forward in cluster[-fuck]s [for that profane diversity-curious outsider take]

*i see that theHeisenberg uncertainty principle was codependency injected[0] into section 5[1] — a negative example of the very point?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Action#Summary

[1] 5 Causality as a requirement for human action

gradschoolfailon The Structure of a Worldview

It would appear that our cones align well enough to keep the intersection positive (the conversation semiprocrastinative)

I shant say that artbasel doesnt exist. Shall we align yet more finely to note that the various subtypes of the highest level “markets” serve to distort the market so as to stay (mildly) (dys)functional? A taxonomy of the various markets for lemons/_lemons is in order? Restnt biz is further enough off the manifold that i might not find it that interesting, convince me.

>honeycomb… sheer mass

It might be nice to expand on what senses of these words are alluded here.. “honeycombs“ are nice skeletons that (math)phykers found they cud feed into the vN (inker) blackbox & get out some interpretable Rorschach zombies. (Plausibly) Marketable Schlep to put off the potentially ikigai busting hard thinking ?

[2] coevolution? The mainstream, prodded by NPs, might evolve towards dropping the interpretability/identifiability reqs?

KST?

gradschoolfailon The Structure of a Worldview

Every ___ & their mother has a worldview…

I submit that what pple should focus in trading are ikigais… (although i suspect Pareto could have hidden a hint or two. — here , i have a set of locally pareto-optimal short term life goals, how to make a market?)

(Previously i had wanted to trade experts’ (meta)underwear, but that turned out more to be like the market for million-dollar abstract art which nobody has seen in person! The seller of ikigais, otoh, has almost certainly a glimpse at the very least — Citoyen, dissect his favorite joke!)

EDIT: do. Not. Trust a physicist who tells you that the calculation (or optics alignment) was fun. However. Trust a mathematician (or economist) who happily flips burgers to support their habit. Informatiker/logician: depends on how alexithymic they are, the correlation may surprise you :)

Update: eg Kip Thorne highlighted the joy of having detractors eat crow. Thankfully did not pass on the bag of having “his intuition shredded” or “trying his best to stay away from being bored” or some such inanity :)

gradschoolfailon In Memory of Stiver

the offerings at kokoko.spb.ru, how they triage the (upper mid to top) market!

1. Slavophile, past (god save the tsar!)

2. Laptop class, cosmopolitan future (tomorrow the universe!) Here be tropical dragons..

3. “Car dealer” class gastropub, present (dont worry abt that hangover)

In liberal democracies there tends to be no gap between 1,2,..(or 1,3) thank Bibendum??

I think i’ve a reasonably good handle on other-people’s-ikigai.. a shared meal or 2 can lead to some confidence intervals on their future returns — measured in ikigai!

Ikigai trading, otoh, a very delicate matter..

Edit: possible to trisect hn based on how adversarial the relationship to those who pay is ( no tops, but plenty of semiretirees in the uppest house)

gradschoolfailon In Memory of Stiver

Mutual envy hits the sweet spot imho.. to me the (median) Informatiker has superior naming/notation/training. Recall that bit with Moitra et al cutting the Gordian knot of thermalization vs entanglement. (That dude couldnt touch-type to save his bacon, pls forgive the (reverent) gossip)

Here: how far is this regex from non-associativity.

[& this connection is exactly what i was hoping for! I’d hoped the regular in regularity structs would trigger smth, & save us both weeks (of procrastination, in my case)]

Was i born decades earlier, i might have wandered into a VC “human capital destruction” job, since i have a roughly equivalent mix of traits..

gradschoolfailon In Memory of Stiver

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5529908z.texteImage

Mostly figured out the deal with the Leningrad (just noticed the logo animation..)

Shnurov runs a restaurant in Peterburg, “Cococo”, those are prob his employees, and the drink could well be his fave counterseasonal laptop class drink

(Who is his man in Hainan i wonder)

Update:

Lions for ZA?

gradschoolfailon In Memory of Stiver

Uh (first off) its the german sense of vertex, not the anglo sense lol

(Image Search for “3-gluon vertex” to get a language independent sense)

On (regrettably still halfass’d) reflection,there are necessary subtleties which your question is stalking but it will take me a few days or weeks to page in

gradschoolfailon In Memory of Stiver

EDIT: The Minims: i saw somewhere that Brienne was run by monks..

ive unfortunately (ego quoque!) degenerated to link/comment taiji for now,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42134920

A way to resolve the elite defo conundrum by separating out the laptop class (but merging car dealers into the working class?)

>as a dean i was … sitting under … swords while being perceived as the sword…

gradschoolfailon In Memory of Stiver

>Given the above signs of signaling, Caplan argues in ch. 5–6[1] that the selfish return to education is greater than the social return to education, suggesting that greater educational attainment creates a negative externality (p. 198[1]). In other words, status is zero-sum; skill is not (p. 229[1]).

gradschoolfailon In Memory of Stiver

Re: your question about the commutative in PC, and maybe “Harmonic analysis” #DiOs (Do-it-Ourselves)

(TIL, while trying to answer in my own words)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regularity_structure

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Re: ikigai & magic/yuurei & contraints

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faddeev–Popov_ghost#Footnotes

[hokusai said? But painted a few lone wranglers in 甲斐 province]

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Re: Leningrad MTV & Russians

1) Intentionally not hiring locals for NPC role, out of respect for hosts or irony? Drink is Hainanese coconut? Visually refined + verbally profane, such Pansclavonia!

2)nomenklatura/engineers, could keep their kids away from lows as far back as 1950s, or even earlier. Military still more effective diffusive optimizer in AG’s time? Or further back, the Minimes.

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Proto response to econ rot

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42116704

gradschoolfailon In Memory of Stiver

Slightly ot or maybe not, the educational inflection point was deep in the mid of the Cultural Revolution, which suggests that mass rustications are indeed situations to look into..

(The mechanism is probably that STEMish rusticants began to selforganize learning centres)

COVID might have already started the process of Montanacation — elite diffusion to the hills —for the US (tho 2024 might actually reverse it)

For russians so far, the conscripts are so far drawn disprop from the lows; the tops prefer to emigrate/stay out of the country, so wait a bit.

gradschoolfailon The rise of the U.S., the rise of China

Yes 2020.

Does <<the galois theory of algorithms>> throw any light on vNuC? (von Neumann universal constructors, aka(?) the orthographically suggestive “geon”)

P4: >…we have to construct a Hamiltonian whose ground-state energy is dependent on the outcome of a (quantum) computation. This is possible thanks to Feynman and Kitaev’s history state construction used ubiquitously throughout quantum complexity proofs

[Escape hatches of substance, steadfast in starstorms, abstracting into infinity…]

gradschoolfailon Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a professor, I became one

Convince the present oriented that the future oriented are past oriented?

gradschoolfailon Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a professor, I became one

Right, the trichotomy in Venkatesh Rao’s The Office… was clearly influenced by Fussell (who was in turn inspired by Veblen)

GP indicates another trichotomy- past, future and present orientation..

>Now they hide, not merely from envy and revenge but from expose journalism much advanced in cunning and ferocity since Veblen's time, and from an even worse threat, virtually unknown to Veblen,foundational mendicancy, with its hordes of beggars in three-piece suits constantly badgering the well-to-do.

Update for XXI to take into account (YC vs) “fakers” & the finally selfaware 4th estate