Smit Shah

Disciple of Dionysus. Amor Fati.

[Jayant Golchhā « 高智仁 » @golchha_J]

Most difficulties in learning arise simply from going too fast, forcing the pace.

[Jayant Golchhā « 高智仁 » @golchha_J]

The acquisition of knowledge has to be organic and idiosyncratic; something in the present sparks one’s curiosity to go deeper.

Definitely not something to “master” top-down, something to “conquer.” Knowledge is not a hill to climb.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

@SMatuul @bryan_johnson Your diet does not consists in raw nutrients extracted from their packaging & can't be compared to the biological context of food. Fiber, texture, water, micronutrients, and countless compounds arrive together in proportions shaped by nature.

[Satyaki Roy @Satyaki_R]

The way to be indifferent to criticism is to begin by being indifferent to praise.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

It isn't natural to know when your vacation/week end terminates.
Modern life creates Sunday night blues.
Flaneuring removes such a specter

[Gordon Fang @GoujianofYue]

@ballure Long road should be filled w personal projects

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Athletes obsess over aging & "decline" because the maximum of a variable/competitiveness decrease faster than the average.

Regular people away from their max potential can actually age in reverse, by training, increasing muscle mass, bone density, & aerobic capacity --while enjoying life.

Ignore athletes, obsessives over that rapidly wasting asset.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

How do you become a scholar? Not by actively studying boring or nonboring material. Just reduce the number of things you read that you wouldn't reread a decade (or more) from now.

[Smit Shah @SmitShah420]

@trishankkarthik In fat-tailed domains, quiet isn’t evidence of safety. And this quiet is literally purchased by draining the buffers that prevent the jump.

[Smit Shah @SmitShah420]

@trishankkarthik Forecasters got the mechanism right and the timing wrong. So: more cushion than we thought, and still playing with fire.

[Smit Shah @SmitShah420]

@trishankkarthik This can’t continue for much longer, prices could skyrocket all of a sudden

[Satyaki Roy @Satyaki_R]

Ironically, Claude Shannon was most useful to ALL of STEM.

'Usefulness' doesn't come from goals but method.

[Jayant Golchhā « 高智仁 » @golchha_J]

Vegans are intransigent against harm to animals; where is it for humans undergoing genocide?

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

More on H1-B:
I've addressed this 18 y ago in The Black Swan: America's edge is in risk taking, not education. Any idiot can have education; you need to learn to fail.
The American system has been based on trial and error. Which is why foreigners succeed here not at home.

[Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy @trishankkarthik]

There is a difference between America the government & America the people

The people are generally more friendly, sociable & inclusive than anywhere else

I couldn’t be where I am w/o the people

But we the people must correct the government & oligarchy

Happy birthday, America

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

"It is through logic that we prove, but through intuition that we discover" - Poincaré

[Jayant Golchhā « 高智仁 » @golchha_J]

« people should limit their teaching to avoidance of fragility »

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

The arrow of history has noise but a strong drift. For those distressed w/Calligulino & North Macedonia, view them as one of the temporary setbacks in a 6000 year history of non-gradual, jumpy improvement.

More technically, History proved to be a stochastic fat-tailed process w/a strong drift.

[Even more technically, here is a Compound Poisson Process with Power-law bi-directional jumps, to simplify a Levy Pr]