News & Musings
News & Musings
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Excelent eseu al lui Ștefan Szedlacsek: . Reacția acelor „mediocrități [—formulare elegantă; citește: nulități—] agresive amenințate de merit, rigoare și transparență” nu e conjuncturală, ci sistemică. Competența devine disonanță. Nu accident, ci mecanism.
Oglinzile biologiei. Cum ne devorăm elitele - Contributors
În 1960, o tânără de 26 de ani, Jane Goodall, urca zilnic pe un deal din Gombe, Tanzania, cu un carnețel,...
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Peter Lax's pragmatic approach to solving differential equations was influential across fields ranging from weather forecasting to starting nuclear chain reactions.
Incredibly saddened to hear about Ghazala Azmat's premature death. She was a wonderful and kind person, this is an immense loss for the economics community.
“A forty-minute string quartet might be considered taxing enough, but Schoenberg denies any possibility of passive listening…. Active listening is required all the way. This is music at 150 percent concentration.” —Philip Clark
A recent flight of cellar-born distinction that quietly outshone all expectations...
Many are criticizing Apple's "reasoning" (or lack-thereof) paper on two counts:
1) People also memorize and pattern match.
2) People are also inconsistent.
I think they're missing the point on both. Here is the picture summarizing why. 1/n
Norway 1 - Italy 0🔥
Stereotypical as it may be in this tournament—“You come at the King, you best not miss.”
Congratulations to @MagnusCarlsen on winning a magnificent 7th #NorwayChess title after a stunning final round!
Stephen Colbert crushed it: “You know things are bad when the rational voice mediating your dispute is Kanye West.” Watch the full segment if you can, but don’t miss from 6:44 onward: https://youtu.be/1k1lOINq51c?t=404
P.S. Only Ye was missing to perfect “The Idiad”:
THE IDIAD
Once brothers in bluster, now clowns turned foes
One rage-tweets myths, one stages shows
Hands stay small, Teslas still flame
Both chase clout, both peddle shame
From towers of gold to http://X.com’s domain
Empires fall, fools remain
Idiots rise, idiots reign
