The tao that can be told is not the eternal tao, but for any finite period of time with duration d there is a tellable tao T with duration dT ≥ d.
A Tumblr user has set their post queue to post once a day. However, they add an average of 1.8 new posts to the queue each day. There are currently 74 posts in the queue. A queue can hold a maximum of 300 posts.
A. How many days will it take the queue to reach its maximum capacity?
B. If the user sets the post rate to two posts per day, how many days will it take for the queue to be emptied?
C. Using universal laws, compute the mind state of a typical Tumblr user matching this statistical description within +/-10% from first principles, and create a sample distribution and tag-based machine-learning algorithm to estimate the percentage of shtposts in a representative post queue. Engrave your answer as a binary representation with associated decoding algorithm on a stone tablet.
They spend the 3rd most in the nation per student and can’t produce a quality student.
MONEY IS NOT WHAT MAKES SCHOOLS GOOD.
It’s family values and communities. Things the left has been trying to destroy for decades.
I completely agree, they would have been good at math if they’d hated gay people more, you make sense.
Actually, Community and Family don’t require hating gay people (if you aren’t a member of [SUBSET OF RELIGIONS]). It is this blog’s belief that stable and beneficial families can be the new cultural norm without stomping all over the LGBTs.
neoliberalism-nightly asked:
nostalgebraist answered:
I am aware of this argument – for instance in the paper I linked there is this remark
If long-run market forces lead those with a history of accurate evaluation to become wealthier, then this wealth-weighted average may be a more accurate predictor than an unweighted average.
But I would not say this is a “crucial aspect” of prediction markets, from what I know. There is a lot of interest, say, in the relatively few currently existing prediction markets, even though these are both rare and “causal” enough that one would not expect to see much of a wealth signal in them due to people going broke or winning big in prediction markets (as opposed to elsewhere).
If this were necessary for the function of prediction markets, or just a crucially important element of the mix, I would expect to see much more of a “we need to wait for the data” attitude among people studying these markets, rather than an intensive use of the data from the currently existing markets to evaluate the prediction market concept itself (as we see in that paper, and in many other places as well).
So we seem to have a real disagreement about how important this mechanism is (or is believed to be). I’m not saying it’s seen as unimportant because of my values, I really just haven’t seen people treat it as that important.
I also don’t see how this generalizes to non-prediction markets, since there isn’t a notion analogous to “good prediction” for preferences, or if there were it would be something like “being exceedingly average in preferences” and I don’t think there’s a mechanism making people wealthy in proportion to how average they are.
It’s probably more important if the market accumulation is broken up by domains, with some secondary importance across domains at a broader level for superforecasters participating.
It may not be that the megapredictor should have almost all the wealth, but rather we might want to allow a capped range or something depending on past performance. Sounds like a good topic for a study!
Anyway, before I miss out on the other discourse going on: Piper Harron has basically said that universities need to fire white mathematicians, because WOC have no chance to be hired to do math otherwise.
Problematic?
Or super problematic?
No. Woke.
Dammit! Are you sure?
Does she look white to you? Woke.
Granted, I was just shitposting and hadn’t checked first, but this whole edge case wokeness thing has been more stupid than politics in general so it seemed like a good guess. Of course if a white man said the same thing it would be a sign of his racism, but SJ informally asserts that truth value is based on race, sex, and orientation of the speaker, so…
Anyway, before I miss out on the other discourse going on: Piper Harron has basically said that universities need to fire white mathematicians, because WOC have no chance to be hired to do math otherwise.
Problematic?
Or super problematic?
No. Woke.
Physicists and mathematicians regularly invade other fields but other fields do not invade theirs so we can see which fields are hardest for very talented people.
If someone from another field successfully invades physics or math, we just call them a physicist or mathematician instead of whatever they were originally.
What about when a Poli Sci major ships software?
They spend the 3rd most in the nation per student and can’t produce a quality student.
MONEY IS NOT WHAT MAKES SCHOOLS GOOD.
It’s family values and communities. Things the left has been trying to destroy for decades.
I completely agree, they would have been good at math if they’d hated gay people more, you make sense.
Actually, Community and Family don’t require hating gay people (if you aren’t a member of [SUBSET OF RELIGIONS]). It is this blog’s belief that stable and beneficial families can be the new cultural norm without stomping all over the LGBTs.
“community and family are important aspects of a child’s development and can be correlated with success in school more often than not, therefore we know already that there are things we can do to improve school achievement without necessarily pouring money into an already failed and broken system”
“Yeah, sure, we need to hate gay people more, that will fix things”
Fuck, I’m so tired of shibboleths and dog whistles predetermining the outcome of any political discussion. How jaded do you even have to be to interpret “family and community” as anti-LGBT?
Truly, the religious right’s long term use of “family” and “community” as dogwhistles for anti-LGBT have damaged this country. Ranma here is foreign, but many in the United States have developed similar responses on those keywords.
The irony is that gay marriage is would be better from this perspective, since it could be used for increased stable family formation and create more potential homes for adopted or foster children. Also while it normalizes gay behavior (which makes the cons upset because religion) it also normalizes gay behavior (which is what makes it useful) as part of the life script, which should reduce promiscuity (and high levels of promiscuity generally aren’t good for people) and encourage integration with the national culture instead of counter-culture waging culture war.
SAN FRANCISCO—In an effort to reduce the number of unprovoked hostile communications on the social media platform, Twitter announced Monday that it had added a red X-mark feature verifying users who are in fact perfectly okay to harass. “This new verification system offers users a simple, efficient way to determine which accounts belong to total pieces of shit whom you should have no qualms about tormenting to your heart’s desire,” said spokesperson Elizabeth James, adding that the small red symbol signifies that Twitter has officially confirmed the identity of a loathsome person who deserves the worst abuse imaginable and who will deliberately have their Mute, Block, and Report options disabled. “When a user sees this symbol, they know they’re dealing with a real asshole who has richly earned whatever mistreatment they receive, including profanity, body-shaming, leaking of personal information, and relentless goading to commit suicide. It’s really just a helpful way of saying to our users, ‘This fuck has it coming, so do your worst with a clear conscience and without fear of having your account suspended.’” At press time, Twitter reassuredly clarified that the red X was just a suggestion and that all users could still be bullied with as little recourse as they are now.
