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I study math and philosophy and build software.

[Addem Fr @eipim1i0]

@hwinkler4real I gotta birthday giiift fooor yooouuuuuu

[Addem Fr @eipim1i0]

@marcmaron Somehow saying "I'm luke warm about the Jews" sounds pretty much like anti-Semitism.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

You know what you call a movement that’s semi-ok with violence against its opponents? Semi-fascist.

[Ryan Struyk @ryanstruyk]

BIDEN: "Exxon released its earnings today. You know how much they made in the third quarter? $18.7 billion in 90 days. That’s nearly triple what Exxon made last year, and the most it’s made in its 152-year history, while the rest of America is struggling."

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

FWIW, as a former Republican who has some sense of what Democratic attacks work near the end of election campaigns:

Every Democratic candidate should watch this clip—and the speech of which it was a part—and make that message his or her own.

h/t @Acyn

[Addem Fr @eipim1i0]

@NateSilver538 I don't know -- I do think banning people who use hate speech is right. But I have a hard time assessing a more specific judgement since I don't know all of what Twitter has done.

[Addem Fr @eipim1i0]

@HthrLynnJ 4) Spot the mistake exercises (even when the faulty proof arrives at the correct answer).

[Addem Fr @eipim1i0]

@HthrLynnJ Brainstorming:1)Assign half the points of a problem to "was every step a valid inference, from assumptions to conclusion?"2)Make "fill in the blank" assignments where sometimes inferences are left blank, and sometimes reasons are left blank.

[Addem Fr @eipim1i0]

@HthrLynnJ 3)Paragraph style exercises.

[Howie Hua @howie_hua]

Today's meme of the day since we were learning about factoring

[Addem Fr @eipim1i0]

@jaztrophysicist Theft is a great way to get rich, faster than everyone else does, until you get caught. People who break the rules and abuse others, profit from it--that is the entire point of doing it--and go farther faster. I think the ambition of rules, is to make it a less reliable strategy.

[Addem Fr @eipim1i0]

@htowsner There is a way in which this has immense beauty.

[Addem Fr @eipim1i0]

@SarahLongwell25 Like, if you had Trumpers acting utterly deranged in the streets during a rally, I could definitely expect that they will try to put a veneer of sanity onto their reasons when brought into a focus group. That kind of professional setting changes how you present yourself.

[Addem Fr @eipim1i0]

@SarahLongwell25 I would summarize the history of statistics: It turns out small things we thought didn't matter, actually matter. I worry about this with focus groups, as a methodology. How does being brought into a room in a building, change how you express your reasons?

[Addem Fr @eipim1i0]

@BobLeBoeuf1 @BerkeleyEverett Although honestly, my approach is always "Here's the standard algorithm, it always works thoughtlessly. Now: Use whatever you like as long as it's valid." I mean ... unless it's literally an algorithms class where the point is to find mega-fast algorithms.

[Addem Fr @eipim1i0]

@BobLeBoeuf1 @BerkeleyEverett I would count myself as pretty obsessed with reasoning--but I think part of that, is rationally trusting certain algorithms (or even COMPUTERS!) to do the thinking for you, so that you can spend your efforts on other tasks. So I'm on everyone's side here.

[Addem Fr @eipim1i0]

@prindleac @howie_hua It's important in the sense that it's nice in daily life (kinda), but not in math. We should have some media campaign demanding that everyone call this kind of stuff calculation, not math, and threaten brutal crackdowns if we catch anyone offending.

[Addem Fr @eipim1i0]

@BradleyLBurdick Sometimes you just gotta make the same mistake seven times, and then sleep on it. One day you find that you've grown up a little and are more mathematically mature.

[Addem Fr @eipim1i0]

@BradleyLBurdick And I probably didn't really appreciate exactly what the counter-example showed. I think that was a kind of abstract "thinking about our methods" perspective that I didn't really understand at the time.