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Many smart people get bored and get all the joy sucked out of them when living and working under circumstances.

Some people enjoy the challenge and may compensate outside work hours, often doing overtime without compensation, that often implies less of a life outside of work or work concerns, promoting their personal branding, conferences, etc.

Just because these people exist and get rewarded does not mean their work environment is not predatory.

I would have been wary if I saw that message on your bio too. Don't be too quick to dismiss what they said as purely ignorant, we are in weird times.

Firefox and other browsers have extensions to automatically redirect to other sites that show things with less clutter like xcancel.

The funny thing is that from a levelized cost of electricity stance, renewables are the cheapest, and cheaper in most cases even after storage is included. It's insane.

Sorry, what?

Some points of interest (in decreasing order).

Tech related:

- PIX (Brazilian Payment method) as unfair to master/visa duopoly

- Last couple years the Brazilian Supreme Court has been involved in certain battles with X and other US companies (Elon Musk has been particularly involved)

Energy:

- Brazil tariffs US ethanol imports in 18% (while US does not)

Last week Flávio Bolsonaro (presidential incumbent for the end of year elections) visited Trump so it is certainly some interesting timing. His brother Eduardo has been living and lobbying in the US for more than a year now.

I mean, we have good evidence that "New Math" pedagogical approach in the 70s was very ineffective compared to traditional learning by example, memorizing multiplication tables at younger ages. Would you say that is "gibberish" as well?

> In reality math teachers who are good are extremely rare because people who are good at math tend to not be teachers.

It's hard to take your argument seriously when your own sentence corroborates what I'm trying to convey.

I am fine with the research results, it's important to note that it does not control for pedagogical variance. [Edit: I'd like refer to the last 2 paragraphs on the Discussion section to point out other issues in the paper the author acknowledges]

One speculation I'd be fine to make would be that high IQ could be associated with survival bias, e.g. someone who is already quite adept at identifying patterns might be able to derive meaning from structures without requiring the motivation that compounds over time for others "less gifted". But I am happy to accept it's just a very convenient speculation.

Sure, Terence Tao might be a gifted unicorn with a special brain, he had of course the circumstance and means to have his potential thoroughly leveraged. Maybe someone "gifted" that is forced to memorize the quadratic formula to pass a test gets bored (but not gifted or motivated enough to complete the square on their own).

Edit: I agree with the rigor on "everyone" and "maths" (not everyone, not all maths), I hoped we had shared context on this basic assumption (which I expected to be a frivolous pedantism, I stand corrected nevertheless). I also appreciate the point about cruelty (which, in the schooling context, I believe goes beyond just our specific topic) but this textbox is too small to contain my wonderful argument.

You are being disingenuous. Of course people with disabilities or severely deficient in cognition have innate difficulties that might hamper or completely preclude the development of mathematical skills.

The main point is that the educational environment most people have to deal with: public school in most countries, focused on rote memorization of formulas for passing tests, is the main factor on the incredibly inefficient and adversarial perception of most students and adults.

If you are able to understand something as "basic" as higher order effects in economics and societies, accrued from an understanding of rates of change from calculus, you are of course extremely privileged. On the other hand you are not some gifted unicorn with a special brain, you are just lucky (exceptions exist, but even they have to be somewhat lucky).

[Edit: grammar, ambiguity]

Good education, where one is imbued with motivation to learn and develop knowledge. That's not evenly distributed.

Anybody can learn math.

There are indications Embraer might announce a new aircraft at the next Farnborough Airshow, fingers crossed!

Excited about Thundermail!