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Anusar Farooqui, Founder and CEO, Systematic Portfolios LLC. Words: https://t.co/ATzak2R4A0
Joined September 2008
They smell revolution. And they want to nip it in the bud. We have a very aggressive elite that proactively mobilizes to neutralize any potential threat before it grows for them to handle. Maybe bc they know how tenuous their control is. The cabal is what a few hundred?.
With Mamdani, with Biden-Harris, with Obama, the panicked rage of the wealthy elite has typically been less about material fears — the tax hikes and regulatory burdens have all been pretty small — than about who gets to be, and see themselves, as heroes in our culture.
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All governments in the world, and particularly their negotiators, need to read Alan Beattie religiously.
“If you’re going to the negotiating table with country X, and they just saw country Y did a deal but then it was undercut, they’ll say, ‘Why am I spending time with you? And how do I know that what we agree here is going to be ultimately what the final deal is?’”.
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“The Hessians of Asia.”.
1:🧵on America's misperception of Asian challenges and aspirations. In this deep dive into America's role in Asia, I pull the thread on several themes that have dominated my work for over a decade and concern me hugely as a strategist and former diplomat:
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If prestige in international relations is a reputation for power, what is the equivalent for the sexual economy? Moderns pretend that the sexual economy is symmetric. Ofc not! Like most species, females choose. And they gossip! This thing is real!.
Men don’t know what they’re up against.
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Rudd got things badly wrong. Economists don’t believe that expectations are important to the inflation process bc their models say so—their models say so bc they think that expectations matter! Rudd is also wrong about the empirical evidence being weak. For one, hyperinflationary.
Mainstream economics is replete with ideas that “everyone knows” to be true, but that are actually.arrant nonsense. That is how Rudd (2021) begins, in which he argues quite convincingly that "inflation expectations" do not have predictive power for actual inflation.
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One of the interesting things that not enough folks appreciate is the qualitative step-change that occurs when you move from merely fast to hyper fast compute. An entirely new landscape of possibilities opens up. If a process takes 10 seconds, it's nice; maybe you can scale it.
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RT @NickBurns: A/C is obviously necessary in hot, humid American summers and seems increasingly necessary for Europeans. But it does do som….
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It took me a good few years of work in the field to fully comprehend that physics is not math. It is harder! When you prove a theorem, you know with absolute certainty that it is true. There is no such possibility in physics. You may have a theory that works mathematically, but.
@KtunaxaAmerika Oh man, the math is easier than the physics here. The issue is basically that you have to make radically simplified assumptions to get closed-form solutions. But do they really correspond to a physical reality? Does the Kerr solution “predict” the existence of rotating black.
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Will you stop monologue 1 if and when they do?.
The bitter lesson of Grok and its 100x effort at compute scaling is this: there have been hundreds of shots on goal since GPT-4 to build an across-the-board leap forward comparable to GPT-3 to GPT-4 that would be worthy of the GPT-5 name, and every single one of them has been.
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This is just straight up fraud. High racialism did not decline after 1930; it attained new heights. The 1950 UNESCO statement authored by a committee led by Ashley Montagu was not signed by a single physical anthropologist. “Race ceased to be the terrain of the hard sciences”
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Remind me, Tim. Does Brazilian ethanol destroy us faster than US gas guzzlers or vice-versa? I saw somewhere that the US capitulation is going to increase US emissions by 10% over the next decade. Apparently, we are not done yet boiling everyone! Drill, Baby Drill!.
hearing lots of anti-EV talk from India & Brazil. They need to choose biofuel hybrids instead of pure battery EV on grounds of economic security. Brazil has already incentivised foreign and domestic OEMS to mnaufacture (sugarcane) ethanol battery hybrids.
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First independent survey of deaths in Gaza reports more than 80,000 fatalities
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If it can't find the answer, it convinces itself it has found one. Just some vaguely passable story. HAhhAHaha.
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The Aryan plague. We've been doing this from the beginning. I am quite convinced that this is indeed the correct theory of why Africans/sapiens replaced other hominin. We just had more potent pathogen packages.
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Pretty convincing proof that serious animal husbandry began around 4500BCE, when zoonotic diseases first appear.
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ha! What a glorious course that man taught. He is real reason I chose to do my phd in math. A big debt of gratitude to him.
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Bc I/O is so expensive, you have to be careful. My first encounter with graduate level math was Karatzas. He explained the Fubini-Tonelli Theorem (why you can permute integration or summation signs) by saying that you can sweep the floor in tiles going left-to-right or.
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