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I agree. No need to make it emotional and confrontational with a “respect” interpretation in my opinion. Of course this is hard but if I can do it I imagine the best approach will be to simply make the best choices for my career while recognizing management has their own bizarre incentives I will never understand.

I simply buy a weekly newspaper and read it. I’m always 1-1.5 weeks behind so I never feel as “emotional” or follow things that closely. I want a general feel for some of the things happening in the world and that is it

I did a CS undergrad and skipped compilers, O.S., DBs, and many others cause I just took as many crosslisted math/CS electives as possible (at least a theorems or math heavy course like automata if I couldn’t do better), then the minimum CS requirements to graduate

Taleb is smart etc but he’s basically a rambling eccentric who I ignore at this point

This is what they did at my undergraduate university

Do all of these in order first:

Calculus 1 and 2

Linear algebra and multivariable calculus and an introduction to proofs / logic course (you are ready for some electives at this point)

Ordinary differential equations

Any of these can be done concurrently, choose one Analysis and one algebra :

Advanced calculus (eg “understanding analysis” by Abbott)

Linear algebra in the sense of finite dimensional vector spaces

Easier abstract algebra (senior level classes are eg Artin and rudin, these ones are more elementary textbooks)

Core Senior level courses that you take if you want to get good at math:

Analysis sequence (1 year on baby Rudin)

Algebra sequence (1 year on artin)

Topology (munkres)

Electives:

Probability (can be done after multivariable calc)

Linear optimization (after linear algebra + multivariable calc)

Logic (compactness completeness godel etc whatever, can be done after intro to proofs course but will probably make less sense if you didn’t study some more stuff first)

Numerical analysis (after ODEs I guess or calculus + linear algebra if you want to skip tht stuff)

Statistics (after probability)

Combinatorics - after calc 2 and linear algebra

Geometry - after multivariable calc, linear algebra, proofs

Intro Differential geometry: after advanced calculus

Don’t really have much more knowledge for graduate courses etc. or even some common ones like complex analysis. if you know the senior level core stuff you’re probably “good enough” to make some progress on a lot of things. Each of these classes is 100-200 hours of total study so it seems odd to me that someone will just try to study it on their own by there you go I guess

I believe this might be more prominent among uneducated folks of (at least in my neck of the woods) non-mainline American Protestant denominations. At least the doctors of the Catholic Church will specifically talk about preparation for death, dying well (also mentioned by Fred Rogers in the documentary I saw about him), etc.

Sometimes I wonder if people are actually really good at thinking in groups but the thought process is just too terrifying and different from what we could understand as individuals

So it’s not clear that the Idaho kid isn’t better than the average MIT admit, but it’s also not clear that he’d do better at MIT than going to his state or Montana state or something. (I mention this not to throw out state schools in the west but because one of the best texts on my area of research is by a guy from Montana State)

Thanks for your post, I’ve removed the numbers from mine as it appears they were likely quite inaccurate

To be honest, my number was based on my rembering of opinions from people who were in management but were certainly not experts on HR budgets or something. So it could be very wrong

Does that mean that the market is simply devaluing capitalists?

I’m not sure of numbers but I’d imagine a 70k salary would mean higher than purely salary costs (depending on company industry etc) after other expenses

His pretty face might leave your superiors with a better impression of your group. A friend manages a software group and actually told me that one of the best things to increase chances of getting a job with her group would be to pay more attention to my appearance and smile more. Also mentioned that just being interpersonally nice was much more important than actual abilities in her organization as long as you were good enough that the owners believed you knew what you were doing and she could justify keeping you there. Etc

Was it Seneca who mocked this line of thinking? If I remember right he mocked it by saying either

1) a good man is a good man and thus equal to other good men

Or

2) you proceed through so many qualifications and “but what if this guy was prettier or had nicer tone of voice than the other good man all else equal” etc until you admit that you include minute details like the exact placement of every hair follicle on some dudes head in your proposed total ordering of humanity

So true. My impression of one guy at my current organization is that he had some skills and productivity years in the past, but now he’s just given up and fiddles around on his phone while doing occasional low-effort tasks and trying to bully newcomers into doing things he can take credit for. Why he’s still there is beyond me. Very unlikely (in my opinion) that he could get away with this remotely.

One of the reasons I like the PhD in my case is I consider it to be “fuck you education”. I don’t expect it to give me any significant income advantages in software company, but I feel like it opens enough different areas of employment and gave me a big and strong enough skill set that I’m not intimidated by much.

I suppose it might not work out in such a way for all research though. I was lucky enough that my coursework left me with enough math and statistical skills to either learn or fake my way through most relevant math intensive computing stuff while my actual work was things like parallel optimization schemes for neural network training (and lots of programming in the big frameworks)

I mean PhD might be a piece of paper but most people I know who do them in marketable fields don’t pay tuition and get paid assistantships

I feel like power is an issue often solved by education or something. The more you understand about what is going on in the world, what has gone on in the world, humanity, how people work, etc. the more you realize the guy in front of you isn’t shit (and neither are you). Of course reasonable prudence means monitoring your behavior so you don’t end up broke or homeless. But this may include long-term life approaches as much as (more than) what your boss thinks of you (in my opinion)

Interview with a financial firm and with high probability you will hear “We’re not a financial company, we’re a tech company that does finance”

An impression I have of USian culture is that one is only “allowed” to spend time on pursuits such as essaying, the humanities, etc. without mockery after one has made a fortune

That’s always the way I’ve heard the term muscle memory used in a technical setting, but the people I’ve met who go to the gym a lot use it to refer to the phenomenon of gaining back lost muscle much more quickly than it took to build it in the first place.

Idk, I tried to self study the first two chapters of a very hated textbook (Principles of Mathematical Analysis). If you’d have asked me if I understood the material I would have said no. But by the time I took the actual class on that material I made high As on all the exams and could call out mistakes my professor made on metric sets with counter examples.

I used the book “A Transition to Advanced Mathematics” in undergraduate and I loved it. Many but not all exercises have answers in the back

Depending on your level of math ability you can often learn a lot by reading textbooks and proofs very carefully and closely (my opinion)

So I ain’t read the book from OP or Noetzsche but ain’t Nietzsche explicitly say this in Zarathustra or something. I’m sure I didn’t do a good reading but I thought I remember hearing him talk about the incredible violence of what the op article would call “human domestication”

Well I don’t mean to be rude but many logicians and set theorists I know will be sad to find themselves out of a job if what you said about these questions being settled is true

Sorry for curse words I’m very confused

What the hell is that supposed to mean and how it’s different from automatic differentiation

Even if you don’t like classical music their “new sounds” station is also extremely cool

Luckily enough I read plenty of leftist authors as a teen so I had this understanding from day 1