danharaj

escape your hodge duals fam

My mind was in between whinging and kvetching.

Oh my god here, is the same qualification near the top of the article.

> One of the problems the two friends looked at was a version of a century-old unsolved question in geometry.

On every Quanta article there's always someone welching about some gotcha they think they've found that just demonstrates how trash Quanta's popularizations of mathematical topics is. But whenever I read the article in question it always turns out that the writers and editors over there somehow manage to thread the needle in making their material accessible without being mathematically inaccurate. Vague, yes, but that's why they link to the research in question because it's a pop article not a journal publication.

You edited your comment to add another objection. It is equally insubstantial unless you dug through the paper yourself and demonstrated that the transformation applied could not reasonably be called a rotation.

> While locked down due to COVID-19, Joshua Greene and Andrew Lobb figured out how to prove a version of the “rectangular peg problem.”

Emphasis mine.

I'm currently reading The Black Jacobins which is about Toussaint L'Ouverture and the revolution in Haiti. Even after having read accounts of the brutality of slavery multiple times before, it always seems to recede into an abstraction after a long time and the descriptions are as gruesome and horrifying as they ever were. And this is a book that spares the details, relatively speaking.

The wealth of the world is covered in blood.

Unfortunately the rationalist community basically engages in sophistry centered around a naive and outdated positivism with Bayes' rule slapped on top.

If one were to examine that subreddit at this moment it would appear that the mods are very strongly against Scott Alexander being doxxed by a reporter and are also handing out bans for anyone gloating about this.

It's not a good look to compare people to a virus.

No, because they're countries. Who deals with an international incident caused by the NYPD?

The NYPD has a budget for spying on people in other countries. State power is weird.

When the NYPD did a work slowdown, rates of crime according to their own data went down.

You are engaging in circular reasoning.