Casey Glick

Physics PhD studying and building fluidic transistors. An inveterate pun-maker, and likely to sing operatically in your general direction.

[Casey Glick @CaseyCGlick]

@mattyglesias Tax all income they and immediate family from non-government jobs (excluding old income like stocks or *preexisting* book sales) at 100%, *including* things like honoraria and gifts.

For Senate or President, the pay is higher, but the blackout period is much longer.

[Casey Glick @CaseyCGlick]

@mattyglesias We should pay Congress (and SCOTUS and the President) exorbitantly, but pair it with some intense anticorruption laws. Give each House member $1M/year, but force them to put all their assets in a blind trust. Then, require them to work public sector jobs for next 3-5 years.

[Casey Glick @CaseyCGlick]

@BretDevereaux @lkj0987654321 @joestieb Or:

Columbia! the gem of the ocean
The home of the brave and the free
The shrine of each patriot's devotion
A world offers homage to thee
Thy mandates make heroes assemble
When Liberty's form stands in view
Thy banners make tyranny tremble
When borne by the red, white, and blue.

[Casey Glick @CaseyCGlick]

@BretDevereaux @lkj0987654321 @joestieb Verse 2:

May both peace and joy inspire,
Germany, our fatherland.
Peace is all the world's desire,
To the peoples lend your hand.
In fraternity united,
We shall crush the people's foe.
Let all paths by peace be lighted,
That no mother shall again
𝄆 Mourn her son in woe! 𝄇

[Casey Glick @CaseyCGlick]

@NErbSatullo @BretDevereaux @ForeignPolicy I think one problem is that painted versions we see look ugly! I know the paint is reconstructed based on paint residues, but that captures base layers and not any shading.

I doubt the Romans made intricate sculptures only to give them lousy paint jobs. Look at the frescoes!

[Casey Glick @CaseyCGlick]

@BretDevereaux The line: "I thought so little, they rewarded me // by making me the ruler of the Queen's Navee" gets me every single time.

[Casey Glick @CaseyCGlick]

@mattyglesias I think he might have and been confused.

[Casey Glick @CaseyCGlick]

@TrinaLeeWood @mattyglesias I mean, you're missing the easy solution here: Halloween moved to November Tenth.

[Jay Daigle @ProfJayDaigle]

I have a piece out for @LBC today talking about election forecasts responding to Justin Grimmer's critique in Politico last week. I claim that election forecasts like Nate Silver's are unscientific, but not useless.

[Jay Daigle @ProfJayDaigle]

But as we've learned over and over, even if a study is immaculately conducted, a small p-value isn't enough to be actionable. Does it replicate? Does it generalize? It's an experimental study in a lab; how do we _know_ it implies the real-world effects Grimmer worries about?

[Casey Glick @CaseyCGlick]

@brianbeutler I recommend something along the lines of: "Donald Trump knows Kamala Harris is 10x the man he is."

[Casey Glick @CaseyCGlick]

@NateSilver538 @NateSilver538 Do you have an explainer about the statistical uncertainty about the probability of winning? The difference between 51% and 49% has got to be basically nil, compared to going from 51% to 49% of the *vote* is not. (Presumably in the odds ratio somewhere?)

[Casey Glick @CaseyCGlick]

@steve_vladeck Have a riotously joyful holiday!

[Casey Glick @CaseyCGlick]

This is really neat!

One problem I've realized recently is that the Democrat Blue and Republican Red are not isoluminescent, meaning that red areas stand out much more strongly than equivalent blue ones. e.g., the suburbs are less dense than the urban core, but appear brighter!

[Josh Metcalf @josh_metcalf]

Density map:

[Casey Glick @CaseyCGlick]

@tracewoodgrains My favorite new approach to this is: "you nominate 3 things and I pick one". Sometimes I'll specify "not X", but otherwise I try to be very open.

This encourages strong and varied opinions without being pushy an avoids the "I'm good with whatever" problem.

[Casey Glick @CaseyCGlick]

@Ada_Palmer Unfortunately, I seem to have miscalculated with my design for camouflaged White House solar panels.

[Casey Glick @CaseyCGlick]

@ProfJayDaigle More, once it becomes clear to your students that this is just how you do things, it stops being nearly as awkward to the group. Can still be hard to just sit in silence, but it's not weird to the same degree after a few times.

[Casey Glick @CaseyCGlick]

@JohnSmillie42 @yfreemark @JSEllenberg You're absolutely right. Energy from gravity storage is tiny compared to the installation and maintenance costs, unless you're moving an entire lake. I don't know how much a regenerative braking + automated weight movement system costs, but it's more than the Powerwalls' $17k...