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Wandering Hoo
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he/him Trans rights are human rights You don't have to understand. You must have to be kind. Psalm 22:6
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · May 1
more gender makes world more gooder.
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 8h
I mean, even pre-AI, linear was massively undervalued.
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 8h
It's ideological and coming from Donor-brain.
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 8h
Here's the thing.

It'd be defensible *if it had worked.*

But it didn't.

So it was worthless.
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 8h
This you?
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 8h
I see, going full "philosophy with rules."

Not sure I care for it, but it does make more sense.
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 8h
I hate this, but yeah.

In my case, it was a finFET class, but same thing.
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 9h
The issue in the West is that our high-level mathematicians *are the problem.*

They teach as if everyone will become an academic mathematician.
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 9h
"Hi, here's a bunch of stuff you're going to have to learn a wholly new set of intuitions for. Your professor will be whoever drew the short straw, good luck."

Is far from an ideal system.
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 9h
Of course, this goes to my second thing.

Which is that we should teach E&M way earlier because it's a *much* better example than "ideal springs."
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 9h
Happy 4th of Shit.
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 9h
Proofs are for mathematicians.

They're a half-decent teaching tool but overemphasized.
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 9h
Nah, this is correct.

Of course, all math makes more sense when you accompany it with the reason for its existence, physics.
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 9h
My hot take is that linear is more useful than proofs, and we should teach it in HS.
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 9h
As my non-CS brain understands it, AI just row reduction at scale.
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 9h
This, too, is Gender.
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 10h
It's substantial.

Most of the sane staffers fled before or during Trump I.
And business school types no longer join up.
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 10h
I do not think they ever had that opportunity.

Having to escalate your use of force is not a sign of strength, but of weakness.
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 10h
Quite frankly, cameras and mass.

They know they're being watched.
They know that in a lot of these circumstances, escalation will not end well for them.

But that tiny bit of rationality does not seem likely to hold for another three years.
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 10h
I have been to church events where the collect was for al-Ahli.

It was not insignificant.
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 10h
Naturally.

They don't have a job in intelligence or analytics.

They have a job at DHS.
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 10h
A lot of them are actual nazis.

Cannot convey this strongly enough.

They want blood and death and suffering.

This is not an edgy fool unaware of the implications. They know what they are doing.
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 10h
Find a fool, and mushroom them.
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 11h
Accepting refugees is correct and good.

But it's also important to work towards preventing their creation.
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 11h
I would have hoped that Syria demonstrated the costs of non-intervention, and Afghanistan and Libya the costs of half-assing it.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 14h
a couple of people have criticized this "but what if you do bad things with all that power" but like. look around you. the right has already grasped the power at hand and is using it. "republicans use the state to advance their goals; democrats unilaterally disarm" is not a sustainable equilibrium!
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d
one thing that has been obvious for a while is this aspect of the authoritarian internationale: they recognize that their allies abroad are not *countries* but *political movements* within foreign countries.

time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.
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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 1d
Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.
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