Invisible Hand Fluffer
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posting dumb jokes & takes; if you see a post about math|stats|cs, it's out-of-sample. private alt: @dynamicedging y=Xβ+ϵ, the rest is commentary
london
Joined June 2020
oh, you use a "computer"? no thanks, none of that slop for me. i remote into my box. from where do I do my remoting on my box, you ask? my machine, of course. what do I use to access my machine? I use my device to access my machine to remote into my box. i am good at computers
I love when an IT guy refers to my laptop as “your machine”
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The Producers (1967) is about a broadway producer who takes $2m of investment, and makes his musical lose money on purpose while spending the cash - because if it made money, he would have to pay tax and pay investors. when you think about it he would be a great founder. 5 stars
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In my experience this is far less common than people with a chip on their shoulder about where they went to college constantly bringing up how where you went doesn't matter
Being snobby about where you went to college is wild because here we are… in the same room.
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now that dating docs are the discourse du jour, a reminder that a dating doc should - be concise and to the point - explain your minimum standards clearly - be open and upfront about one sided non-monogamy
Looking for vibecamp cabinmates! I'll be accepting 7 people at most, who match the following criteria: - hot girl - single - has a math PhD (in an actual math field, not like numerical analysis or some applied BS) - emotionally available, but only to me If you're interested, DM!
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first luigi, now this guy. we are witnessing the rise of the murderer-midwit
Tyler Robinson, the alleged murderer of Charlie Kirk, is an exceptionally bright student.
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if you ask "where the computation happens" in a python program and then say "no i don't mean where the transistors or electrons bump around, i mean the abstract mathematical computation *happens*, and why the transistors can cause me to calculate the nth digit of pi".... there's
no one has ever coherently explained to me why the hard problem of consciousness is actually a problem. not once. it's literally just begging the question and i'm sick of pretending otherwise.
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"What are you listening to?" "It's called Cumtown - you may have read about it in The New Yorker."
Adam Friedland is not a late-night host, and he’s certainly not the left’s Joe Rogan. But could his YouTube talk show, “The Adam Friedland Show,” be the future of the form?
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Walk into the AI store Ask if improvement in AI is exponential or sigmoid “It’s an exponential curve sir” I run my benchmark It’s a sigmoid
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oh no
Told a lot of people earlier this year that my p(doom) is 0, but if AI gets gold in IMO I will have no choice but to update and become a soylent-sipping catgirl in a AI-doomer vegan berkeley polycule A bit unbecoming for me if literally just AlphaZero is all it takes to do this
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had koicha for a mega matcha monday in tokyo. long time since it was me waking up at 6am with 3 hours of sleep on my noncompete to get matcha with 3 people in sydney. anyway, it was half a can of ceremonial matcha in 100ml of water and borderline undrinkable, 10/10 would do again
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game theorist making small talk at a party: “my strategy is chit-for-chat”
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one of my earliest memories from moving to london was going to the london review of books bookstore with a girl and finding that penguin books changed nietzsche's "the gay science" to "the joyous science"
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Anyone who has ever taken any college level econometrics class in their life can tell you it’s basically pro-OLS propaganda. (You may argue that this is because reality has a linear bias, and that may be true). That’s what ppl are being “indoctrinated” in
Anyone who has ever taken any college level economic class in their life can tell you it’s basically pro-free market propaganda. (You may argue that this is because reality has a free market bias, and that may be true). That’s what ppl are being “indoctrinated” in
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It's not entirely clear which side is correct, but it's always worth noticing when you're being the dimwit.
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What's missing so far? None of the studies have even tried to control for total calories in. It should be time to start considering that maybe we're getting these results because people are just eating more calories (that happen to be in the form of protein).
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Also, if you filter the studies more aggressively, like the ten Haaf et al. meta-analysis did, you don't get a significant effect.
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However, note that regressing amount of protein on lean body mass was not significant. The fact that we don't get a statistically significant result at n = almost 2000 should set off some alarm bells.
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That's not to say protein supplementation didn't increase lean body mass. This is a table from another big meta-analysis, Nunes et al.
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