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mathgradthrow··on Allow Carriers on Planes
how common are airpoane crash injuries?
mathgradthrow··on How real are real numbers? (2004)
The word you are looking for, probably, is "totally disconnected". Discrete always refers to the "discrete topology".
mathgradthrow··on How real are real numbers? (2004)
Navel gazing is a physical phenomenon, so if you would like to know everything about physical phenomena, you have to be able to predict the navel gazers.
mathgradthrow··on UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s
>Homework requires internet-connected devices

I see an opportunity for much more reasonable legislation since this is a thing that the gov already controls.

mathgradthrow··on Chess invariants
So many of these invariants are redundant and so few of them encode any of the interesting rules of chess.
mathgradthrow··on Who wins and who loses in prediction markets? Evidence from Polymarket
well, I wrote should as a hedge.
mathgradthrow··on Who Wins and Who Loses in Prediction Markets? Evidence from Polymarket
Someone flips a coin and looks at it, what orders are you willing to put in?

The potential for insiders should be represented by a complete loss of liquidity.

mathgradthrow··on An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
I think when your work is no longer required, you will probably come to regret this sentiment, not that it matters.
mathgradthrow··on Why Almost Everyone Loses–Except a Few Sharks–On Prediction Markets
You're right, but I was confusing counterparty risk and adverse selection.
mathgradthrow··on Why Almost Everyone Loses–Except a Few Sharks–On Prediction Markets
Everytime someone loses money on a bad bet in a prediction market, it's an opportunity for them to learn something about ~~counter-party risk~~ adverse selection. You could easily make the argument that the more people are losing in prediction markets, the more learning is happening.
mathgradthrow··on He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice
a realistic response? What's a realistic response to "how many calories are in an avocado?"

If you are counting calories, you don't want the answer to "how many calories are in the average avocado?", you want to know how many calories are in this avocado. Remember that bodyweight is roughly linear with BMR, so a 10% error in calorie counting is an extra 10% of bodyweight.

mathgradthrow··on If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?
Income is by far the dominant term, you're being ridiculous.
mathgradthrow··on If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?
You are responding to data about the median American.
mathgradthrow··on Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta
Did you not vote?
mathgradthrow··on Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?
Does this question need asking?
mathgradthrow··on Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?
This is the dumbest thing that has ever been posted on this site.
mathgradthrow··on Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta
You don't have to agree to a disparagement clause... She accepted a lot of money to agree to it.
mathgradthrow··on F-15E jet shot down over Iran
Putin can barely fight his own war, and how are you proposing that China supply Iran? You can't rebuild capability in a day.

Do you want to give odds to your proposition that this is going to turn around in the IRGC's favor?

mathgradthrow··on F-15E jet shot down over Iran
I don't know if any have completed runs yet, but supposedly we're using B-52s...
mathgradthrow··on F-15E jet shot down over Iran
1) The US has run 13,000 missions over Iran in the last month. Thats a lot of targets.

2) The initial US degradation of Iraqi capabilities was much much greater in gulf war 1.

3) F15s are not stealth fighters.

4) This is 35 years later.

5) "strategic bombing" of air defenses is mostly accomplished with our cruise missiles. We'll take out any air defenses we find, but you don't fly non-stealth planes over SAM batteries intentionally.

We haven't even started a ground campaign. If one plane is downed per 13000 missions, I think we're doing ok.

mathgradthrow··on Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz
I don't believe you understand how modern bombs work.
mathgradthrow··on Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz
You think the pentagon was like "shit, Iran is bigger than we thought"?
mathgradthrow··on The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode
I'm not really sure that's any of their business.
mathgradthrow··on Apple Just Lost Me
wasn't that about when the iphone came out?
mathgradthrow··on A sufficiently detailed spec is code
> try tweaking the description of a widely-known algorithm just a little bit and see how good the generated code follows the spec.

this works well for me

mathgradthrow··on Intel Demos Chip to Compute with Encrypted Data
No, because of the fundamental limitation of DRM. Content must be delivered as plaintext.
mathgradthrow··on What is f(x) ≤ g(x) + O(1)? Inequalities With Asymptotics
Equality is defined on sets. Everything is a set. Equality means equalty as sets. That's how math aorks unless you're doing type theory shit.
mathgradthrow··on The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying
localization? Why would you oppose LLMs doing localization?
mathgradthrow··on Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge
never let philosophers do math
mathgradthrow··on What is f(x) ≤ g(x) + O(1)? Inequalities With Asymptotics
No. Equality is defined on sets, with exactly one exception, this stupid fucking notation.
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