Sobolev_space

Postgraduate mathematics student

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@Layo_FH A third of take home pay is really ambitious for someone low earning in London tbh. I don't know a single person among even relatively quite high earning friends who achieves that.

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@CptHastings1916 @johndotwills Mark Carney on the tube once

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@BernoulliDefect @mattyglesias Oh I get that, basically I'm trying to reconcile how 'higher prices' and 'more housing' comes out in the wash. 'Redistribution' meant in the loose sense of redistributing from buyers who don't benefit from the scheme to those who do.

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@BernoulliDefect @mattyglesias As someone with very weak econ knowledge, what's the best way to understand how this is still net positive? Redistribution from those who don't use the scheme to those who do, but more housing affordability on net?

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@explains_things @RichardHanania @DKThomp Yeah he's right that everyone could afford it, but I think 'saving a bit less' is very different to having a meaningfully worse QOL

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@fitzr1189 @mrianleslie @felixsalmon I thought the publishers were saying this isn't true and they are somehow liable

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@danushman I like it for the same reason I like coffee; we associate the taste with addictive substances. But decaf coffee, and alcohol free beer, are disgusting.

[David Bessis @davidbessis]

10 remarks on AI and math that can be true all at once:
1. The recent progress is stunning and exciting.
2. The Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis is arguably Fields-medal level.
3. Mathematics is being transformed and there is no way back.
4. OpenAI doesn't give a fuck about the future of mathematics.
5. Half-baked unreadable preprints claiming major results can effectively stall mathematical progress.
6. Some mathematicians are responding with naive, overly defensive comments.
7. The social-media wankers framing this as "OpenAI tramples gatekeeping" have no experience of mathematical research.
8. The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. Not theorems, by themselves.
9. Mathematics is a critical infrastructure of human cognition. The human need for understanding isn't obsolete and it can't be offloaded to machines.
10. We haven't "solved" mathematics and we won't get there before the Sun burns out.

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@CptHastings1916 How are marxist analysis and social history the same thing? They are in many ways opposite.

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@pablomolejon @jfwduffield You are largely right but this comes back to the debate about whether school children should be taught history like you would at university, or whether it has some other purpose.

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@torgeirlysen @avzaagzonunaada @littmath tbh I have some friends who are PhD students in archaeology and that description does seem to fairly closely resemble what they do 🤣

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@littmath @ctbeiser I drink about a litre of coffee before I begin work...

(And frankly I think I'd benefit from accepting I have ADHD and treating it 🤣)

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@littmath @lreyzin @AGamburd18746 Yeah the process is slower and harder to measure but we undeniably understand more about e.g political thought than we would have done 50 years ago. In the same way we know more about any given period of history.

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@littmath @geoffreyirving @driftingwendigo @deanwball Look at any PDE regularity paper lol

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@jfwduffield @richardcutting9 @andenney Obviously England was not a 'coherent cultural group' by AD700 except in the very loosest sense. There was an unusually centralised state but that's a different issue.

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@yuanyi_z Have this literally every time I travel to Europe with my french girlfriend. Border guards sitting doing nothing while UK tourists queue up for seemingly no reason.

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@RupertDarwall @SebMilbank @LoftusSteve Again, you are not understanding my point. I never disputed any fact. He is making a complex causal claim using completely invalid methods.

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@RupertDarwall @SebMilbank @LoftusSteve Okay - if you need it spelling out, my point was that the methodology Steve is using to evaluate privatisation is conceptually flawed and ideologically driven.

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@LoftusSteve and the Abingdon reservoir). That's the real issue here, and there is a real centre right case to be made for deregulation. But you are too insistent on seeing literally every issue through the same lens it's masking your judgement...

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@LoftusSteve The actual issue here has nothing to do with ownership or management of prisons - it's that every proposed prison has struggled to get planning consent. It's hardly the case the private sector has an easier time getting infrastructure through planning (see Thames Water