@pescami In your recent show with Barry Nalebuff, he had good ideas on bargaining...so good that Nobel winners published them 70 years ago. More detail posted here: https://t.co/FrQ9qkqUOM
@Ananyo@HSofP@the_IAS As a game theorist who has also taught set theory: TMFTF did a tremendous job with these topics as well as teaching me a lot about your field of quantum physics. Great science writing. Astounding how JVN stood out beyond even the fields I knew.
I've criticized Colbert recently. Then he says something like this and I realize very few people can express their faith sincerely and beautifully without any trace of self-righteousness. But Colbert is one of them.
Dislike meritocracy? Consider the time-honored alternatives: nepotism, patronage, cronyism, inheritance, racial & ethnic discrimination. We dismantle it at our peril, says Adrian Wooldridge https://t.co/mHA1cAu5T6
All over the nation, schools are lowering standards for students of color in the name of "#antiracism."
The subtle message is that our kids can't succeed if the standards are objective -- and we REJECT this message! #1776Unites
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@seth_yoder @DouthatNYT No, he said the government was violating his rights by *forcing* him to use certain pronouns. He also said if he was simply *asked* he would be likely to do it.
@billmaher Cute point, but almost none of the zealots you're talking about are conventionally religious. They sort of *have* cancelled God. It's not like there is an inconsistency.
@derifkin In the default example on the calulator, if you add about 10% to your budget of tests, you could in principle retest all the positives (especially those without symptoms) and have almost no double false-positives -- does that help?