Chaim Katz

[MRJB 🇬🇧🇨🇦 @DrMichaelBonner]

Strength

[𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ @sonnysehra]

in 1987, west german ice hockey team ecd iserlohn was going through financial problems ($3.5 million in debt). desperate for sponsorships, they struck a $900,000 deal with libyan dictator colonel gaddafi to advertise his ideological manifesto “the green book” on their jerseys.

[Kelly Frog 𓆏 @frogcowgirl]

my mom showed the italian cat at the tuscan winery/vineyard we were at a picture of my cat

[Jelani Nelson @minilek]

https://t.co/pbvzpEy3aa blog post by theoretical computer science prof at Stanford, Omer Reingold:

“Above all, we need to reevaluate our identity. What is it that makes mathematical knowledge and research valuable? What are we offering society, and how much of it survives in a world where models match or exceed humans in some or all relevant mathematical skills? For quite some time, the implicit social contract has been that society pays us to exercise our intellectual curiosity and we, in return, provide useful skills to the next generations and practical knowledge for the world. The current crisis is driven not only by the power of LLMs, but also by how rarely we have had to examine or articulate this contract. Now that the deal needs to be renegotiated, we should approach it with humility rather than entitlement.”

[Kevin A. Bryan @Afinetheorem]

3rd gen GLP-1 at lowest dose for 36 wks has weight loss numbers of earlier GLP-1 over full trials, is so tolerable it had lower dropout than the placebo. At higher doses in TRIUMPH-3, crushed a bunch of lipid/BP numbers. Like half the population will eventually be taking these...

[Ryan S. Walters @ryanswalters73]

“The truth is, that the office holders & the office seekers govern the country, & the struggles between the parties have degenerated into a mere contest for the spoils, without a particle of regard on either side for principles or country.” - John C. Calhoun to John R. Mathewes, August 10, 1845

[Vince Boley @VinceBoley]

People will happily commit their children to professional sports and coaches who require hours of repeated drills and practice.

But when it comes to math, suddenly we hear that “too much practice” is a bad thing.

If athletes want to develop automaticity, they practice the skill repeatedly.

If we want a student to develop automaticity in math, we ALSO need them to practice the skill repeatedly.

Practice isn’t the enemy to be avoided. Practice is how skills become automatic.

[Chaim Katz @direct_instrctn]

@ElliotMalin We live in a post literate society but I'm hoping I can still get people to at least read this chart (w/special attention to the bottom-left and the top-right)

[Chaim Katz @direct_instrctn]

@ProfDBernstein Troy! Please direct your attention to the bottom left of this chart and then to the top right.

Thank you!

[Marc Porter Magee 🎓 @marcportermagee]

If you want high-income parents to stay in public schools, offer tracking

[clara the urbanist @SlopHq]

cat has independently invented district heating. mark carney's canada is going further: vancouver's new AI data centers will pipe server heat into the downtown steam system, while loudoun county vents its into the sky and every house on the cul-de-sac buys its own gas furnace

[Chaim Katz @direct_instrctn]

@VerminusM Have you ever seen the movie "Twins" with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito?

Israeli Jews are Schwarzenegger and American Jews are DeVito.

[Chaim Katz @direct_instrctn]

@neoavatara Curious to see how this goes!

[Chaim Katz @direct_instrctn]

@Alex_A_Guerrero Nope. I have a cargo cult like opinion that it will help cure a rare and hitherto intractable disease with which I may or may not be afflicted. Fingers crossed.

[jeremy @landvaluetax]

We're hitting the breaking points of what our postwar systems can handle. Western electorates demand policies that aren't economically possible.

[Zineb Riboua @zriboua]

She’s great. Hardworking.

[Chaim Katz @direct_instrctn]

@gtmom @marcportermagee Scarsdale Public Schools are awesome but Success Academy kids still beat them at math, last I checked.

[James Kirchick @jkirchick]

A revision and extension of my remarks from last week’s @realtimers in @theatlantic

https://t.co/0UwqK8Wnux

[Chaim Katz @direct_instrctn]

@nobodyknows2322 I get that it's a bad idea almost everywhere else but my understanding was that China is facing significant deflationary pressure?

[Chaim Katz @direct_instrctn]

@MattZeitlin Libs of the time were crazy.

They got mad at him for saying "new-q-luhr" instead of "new-clear".