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@akarlin @StatisticUrban sg is an indepedent country, so comparing it to other t1 cities is misleading. yet being a city-state, comparing it to other countries is also skewed. imo this is exactly why sg is interesting - it is essentially the only true city-state in the world, and so sui generis

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@alz_zyd_ ironically the original motivations from Monge/Kantorovich were all from applied problems

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@justinskycak i agree with that but i think the common sentiment now is that, if llms are going to be smarter and more knowledgeable than me anyway, what is the point of learning all this? there is a kind of nihilism that is pervasive among many students

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@Branche_SC always felt like hypermaculinized men who are on test/steroids should rightfully be classified as part of a "hypergender" community

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@daneelchia i suppose it has to do with the fact that, more unique to china, the minorities (tibet, mongol, manchu) are mostly based in the periphery regions and not integrated within the core han areas, and so emphasising the multi-ethnic was to avoid balkanisation

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@daneelchia i find it interesting that despite the revolution being sparked by anti-manchu sentiments against the qing, it would have been tempting to go down the han nationalist route to nation building, and yet they still went down the multi-ethnic approach

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@alz_zyd_ very curious to know if there is a similar equivalence in other fields; what is the "bitter lesson" in economics?

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@hoeflatoor Other dense cities also have the same issue. The real reason is a lot simpler.....

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@alz_zyd_ Not just the department, the entire field/research community is becoming increasingly irrelevant

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@justinskycak for memory yes, but for grokking a difficult problem/concept deeply I feel like 30 minutes is almost never sufficient

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@ZhangTaisu why would they do this when there is a relatively large supply of immigrants that would be able to cover the deficit?

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@alz_zyd_ mmorpgs like wow, runescape etc are all dying out afaik, general shift to mobile gaming, grand strategy games seems to be doing well?

all of this is highly region dependent too

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@bryancsk how do you explain singlish tho

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@alz_zyd_ shape rotators in absolute disbelief, wordcels will reign supreme in this ai world

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@alz_zyd_ using extrinsic motivation like test/grading will not lead to long term knowledge retention, so is the purpose of education just the studying or the signalling from the grading in itself or do we want the students to actually learn the material?

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@alz_zyd_ (too much) class ranking in a competitive environment leads to a zero-sum mindset, which is not an ideal environment for children to grow up in

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@alz_zyd_ tis not just the students that are thinking less, methinks

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@bryancsk completely ignoring LKY's wishes feels like a very LKY thing to do