Jay Daigle

Mathematician at @GWtweets. I write about teaching, epistemology, math, and metascience, and how hidden assumptions shape our decisions and beliefs.

[Jay Daigle @ProfJayDaigle]

@tracewoodgrains @gattsuru Yeah, I did originally interpret your post as "what's wrong with him why does he look so freaky now".

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@4gravitons @BretDevereaux Reminds me of @orzelc's observation that in the sciences, _every_ paper is a secondary source.

Probably what you really want to cite is "X's experiment, as described by Y", but the mechanics for that right now are to cite Y's paper and also X's original paper.

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@asymmetricinfo Compare @matt_levine's suggestion that part of the "private equity" boom is that "I work in private equity" is much sexier than "I manage a small plumbing chain" even if what you do for the private equity firm is manage the plumbing chain they acquired.

[Oliver Traldi @olivertraldi]

If clicking "Download PDF" opens some bespoke, resource-intensive in-browser reader instead of actually downloading the relevant PDF to my computer, your website should face jail time

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@ThoughtsOnEduc @tracewoodgrains I've heard a lot of good things about this one but I've never actually read it.

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@polanskydj @HiawathaBray Hard to think of anything intrinsically nobler than trying to defeat death.

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

It's frustrating to read people being like "no one said anything negative" yes, if it was a problem, I just thought to myself "wow, I will no longer be able to enjoy this space because of that shitty, antisocial person" and then left

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@tracewoodgrains Not an expert but I think Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity. Nine essays adjacent to this topic.

Argues that the "between frameworks" idea you mention is real and important, and literature and literary criticism can bridge the gap.

First page of part iii seems relevant:

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@tracewoodgrains If you haven't read any Richard Rorty you might be interested. This is a good summary of a central thrust of his work.

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@orzelc I appreciated the inclusion of a proofs-based math course.

I fell like calculus is so important to the STE part of STEM that we prioritize getting people through it, at the expense of all the other interesting math topics. Including what mathematicians actually work with.

[DC YIMBYs 🏗 @dcyimbys]

If you follow this account you should absolutely take this survey and let OP know what you think about a plan to freeze DC in amber for the next generation and do nothing to change the exclusionary, luxury zoning that keeps this city unaffordable.

[Jay Daigle @ProfJayDaigle]

@Scholars_Stage @tylercowen In Freakonomics, in 2005, Leavitt and Dubner pretty explicitly argued that economics is the science of studying things with regressions and statistics.

Which explains the content of the book, which is almost never about the economy.

[Jay Daigle @ProfJayDaigle]

@alexolegimas @JesusFerna7026 Schools provide:
1. content
2. practice with feedback
3. structure and motivation

People get excited about technological improvements (1), but that problem has been basically solved for over a century.

I am cautiously hopeful AI can help with (2).

(3) may always need humans.

[Jay Daigle @ProfJayDaigle]

The number of students who attend my office hours absolutely cratered a couple years ago.

At first I assumed it was just a slow semester but it's been consistent.

I assume that instead of asking me questions, they're asking ChatGPT instead. Not yet sure if that's a good thing.

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@OPinDC Why aren't you aiming to add 150,000 households?

Why is anything south of U street NW not zoned at least for large scale residential?

Why does the "small scale residential" zone even exist?

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@dcyimbys Do we have a place to leave comments and a good form for what we should be asking for and objecting to?

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@KelseyTuoc Thanks to this article I finally got around to calling my councilperson's office. Was easy and took like thirty seconds. If you live here call them today!

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@everytstudies Sometimes I'm getting up so I can avoid seeing the scene!

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@olofj @asymmetricinfo Excuse you I am thirty-nine.

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@orzelc Also the increase in dumb emails you have to deal with.

Most student emails are very reasonable! But the larger the class, the more frequently you get something that's kind of dumb and also a huge pain to deal with.