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It was also huge in India. I remember most of my classmates were on Orkut and only a few were using Facebook. Apparently, Facebook felt a safer place for girls.

> Science is self-correcting, but sometimes

As long as people mislead or make mistake unknowingly, it's fine to rely to self-correcting mechanism of science. The institutional rot is much deeper. It is not good to leave all this fraud to self-correcting mechanisms of science. We also have "trust" to worry about.

Or someone told them that folks in Egypt made a huge building out of stones. They started and gave up after a while. As good a story as any?

The popular version of the Dunning-Kruger effect says that stupid people overestimate their capabilities. This is true, but the effect is more general than that.

It says if your expertise level is different from the average, then you judge the "average competency" differently. So if you have above-average expertise. Folks who had above-average education tended to overestimate what average education looks like (and vice versa).

I notice it when I use LLM. Things that I know well, I can spit LLM slopiness. On other things, LLM output reads like 'expert'.

Something similar can be said about "values". They help you make hard decisions. You don't need values if only make easy decisions.

But values conflicts with each other. You can't value more than a few at the same time. E.g. If you make a decision which is good for your employee who is struggling (value employee), it may not be a good decision for your client who is already delayed (value client/speed). Etc..

Lol.. I am the same. My day job is Rust + car headunit development. My drugs of choice are tikz and openscad..

I use cheap android devices. My current one is a cheap Motorola and before samsung and Chinese vendors. I've never seen bugs like I have encountere since the last update (2 months ago).

Unless I reboot the device everyday, I can't make a call. The button is pressed but never proceeds to ring, doesn't even show an error message. The play service complains that I am logged out but shows my account info in the login panel!! Rebooting is the only way, android is like windows currently.

I am just scared to update anything these days. And not just android apps, Even rsync gave me a minor scare (fortunate my backup jobs are on debian stable).

Yup.. I only remeber three knots: 1. tie cows to a pole using a rope, tile show laces, third one is the most basic one which everyone knows. Sometimes, I learn a few occassinally watching youtube video and forget the next day.

meta: isn't there a long history of such retrospective analysis where when a country does well economically, it's due to something in their culture?

My own experience during my PhD was that a few, if any, PI cared about your growth as a scientist. All they cared about was progress on their project which sometimes are the same. Most of the time they are not.

Interesting though ..

When I was in college, I posted a question on math.se about possibility of universal gates like NOR and NAND in multi-level logic. Someone found it interesting and posted it on the mathoverflow in more mathy language . To my surprise, Terry wrote an answer to that question. I still don't get it but I was flexing the whole month.

Terry also took time to respond to comments I posted on his blog and on his google wave posts (I am old). Most of them were incredibly stupid but he took time to respond. Imagine a field medalist responding to a wannabe kid living somewhere in India.

Some of his real analysis notes were published in India that were cheaply available. I learnt about open/close set and convergence/cauchy series from it. I never thought I'd enjoy reading pure mathematics. Another mathematician I found very readable Daniel Spielman (I think it was his notes on smooth analysis). I once picked a book by William Tutte from the library! Never seen a book that was harder to read.

I don't know what the point of my post is.