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@eigenrobot
Dec 21 • 5 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
to understand social media it is necessary to understand oscar wilde Image
MISS PRISM.
You must put away your phone, Cecily. I really don’t see why you should have a Twitter account at all.

CECILY.
I tweet in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn’t post them publicly, I should probably forget all about them.
naw wilde was a premodernist
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groucho marx is to the jazz age what wilde was to the late victorian and this says way more about those respective eras than it does about either of the artisds Image
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Dec 18
does it still make sense to buy an intel cpu for a home system or is everyone just using AMD at this point?
nevermind i just remembered i have an enormous workstation from the mid 2010s i can clean up

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this thing was completely busted when i put it together. dual workstation chips with 24 total physical cores, absurdly overkill power supply

cost like two months of my wages greenbadging at amazon Image
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Dec 3
a series of thoughts abt this in no particular order
first: my track record. ive previously criticized tiresome woke academic work by tiresome woke academics here

this, not just in quantitative but literary fields; and not just about the work itself but about what it represents

example below
i was fairly aggressive toward the entire career of the scholar in question

was this too much? i don't think so

imo it was warranted by the contemporary social implications of her literary criticism of an innocent work as "[racist]," if nothing else
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Dec 1
full agree with zy here

i think i would explain the intuition of the formulas using integration but i'm not sure that's quite right, maybe it's just a restatement

"area" and "volume" are superficially totally intuitive to me but i don't know how to better formalize them Image
here's a line. it's x units long. we're going to drag it along a flat surface in a direction perpendicular to its length for y units. "area" is "how much" of the surface we dragged the line over.

"1 unit squared" is what we get when we drag a 1 unit line for one unit.
if we make the line 3 units long, and drag it for 1 unit, it covers 3 times as much as the the 1 unit long line would have.

same thing if we drag the 1 unit line for 3 units.

if we drag a 3u line for 2u, it covers as much as the 3u line dragged 1u and then 1u again: 2u*3u=6u^2
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Nov 30
the syrian state is probably about to collapse. this will be very interesting because it's completely unclear what will happen after that.

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its a complete clusterfuck and i doubt we have anything like a coherent objective in syria

looks like maybe Erdogan is the winner here, do we like this, idk idk, who can say

maybe our best hope is "no huge refugee crisis again please"
White founts falling in the courts of the sun,
And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run
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Nov 27
i've just invented a rational agent explanation for why identitarian activist groups tend to be populated by the absolute worst members of whatever community they purport to represent.

the key intuition here is that it's an act of self-defense for the kakistocrats
imagine some excluded group A with measure α < 0.5 and an excluding majority B with measure (1-α).

to become "included," at least 0.5 of the population must agree to inclusion. inclusion imposes a cost C(Ai) borne by B, but produces a benefit Y accruing to included members of A
A is not homogeneous, however.

Some fraction γ∈[0, 1] of A imposes a cost Ch on B when included; fraction (1-γ) imposes a cost Cl on B when included. Here, Ch > Cl.

I'll pause here for a second and explain what's happening in English
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Nov 22
occasional reminder

russia is fighting an honest to god trench war because they can't do anything else and they're barely making progress against a country 1/5 the size armed mostly with our hand-me-downs from a couple generations of warfare past
they're literally incapable of projecting power outside of the dark green area because their logistics are entirely rail based and the areas outside of the dark green use a different gauge of rail Image
russia's single aircraft carrier is currently contributing the the ukraine conflict by (checks notes) having its entire crew deployed as infantry

which makes sense because it hasn't been capable of sailing in years, because it keeps catching on fire
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