I’m sorry for my grating tone. That was not my intent. I didn’t mean to annoy or disrespect you.
April 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I’m sorry for my grating tone. That was not my intent. I didn’t mean to annoy or disrespect you.
Anyway. Sorry, it sounds like my replies were unwelcome. I didn’t mean to impose. I thought our interactions in the past made it safe to speak directly, but maybe I misread and I’m invading your space with these replies. Sorry for that.
April 30, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Anyway. Sorry, it sounds like my replies were unwelcome. I didn’t mean to impose. I thought our interactions in the past made it safe to speak directly, but maybe I misread and I’m invading your space with these replies. Sorry for that.
The sad thing is it seems we both share a desired goal but we struggle to find common cause. Doesn’t fill me with hope that we can get a large group to come together.
April 30, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The sad thing is it seems we both share a desired goal but we struggle to find common cause. Doesn’t fill me with hope that we can get a large group to come together.
I agree with you somewhat here although I suspect we differ on the details, for instance I thought the original quote tweet was self-righteous without offering anything constructive (the one from Molly), but perhaps you think I’m being self righteous without offering anything constructive.
April 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I agree with you somewhat here although I suspect we differ on the details, for instance I thought the original quote tweet was self-righteous without offering anything constructive (the one from Molly), but perhaps you think I’m being self righteous without offering anything constructive.
I am sorry men have blamed you for that. I am also not involved in locker room talk. I can’t tell if you feel like I am one of these people or not. I’m not trying to hold you responsible for Trump not being less popular.
April 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I am sorry men have blamed you for that. I am also not involved in locker room talk. I can’t tell if you feel like I am one of these people or not. I’m not trying to hold you responsible for Trump not being less popular.
I don’t think Trump support is secret. The men that support Trump seem happy to talk about. It’s just that they don’t know or care what some liberal like me has to say (and they likely have some cartoon evil villain view of how I see the world).
April 30, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I don’t think Trump support is secret. The men that support Trump seem happy to talk about. It’s just that they don’t know or care what some liberal like me has to say (and they likely have some cartoon evil villain view of how I see the world).
This is my point about the groups: I hang out with educated people in Hawaii. We all voted for Kamala. I gave money, put a sign in my yard (not that it matters, probably all my neighbors voted the same way).
April 30, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This is my point about the groups: I hang out with educated people in Hawaii. We all voted for Kamala. I gave money, put a sign in my yard (not that it matters, probably all my neighbors voted the same way).
I think society is incredibly sorted right now. That’s why Trump supporters believe the election was rigged: everyone they know supports Trump. Likewise I have zero friends that I’m aware of voted for Trump.
April 30, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I think society is incredibly sorted right now. That’s why Trump supporters believe the election was rigged: everyone they know supports Trump. Likewise I have zero friends that I’m aware of voted for Trump.
I get that people are upset and scared and sometimes they just want to vent. And maybe it feels good to blame someone else, and we can imagine if only they had done better (for instance in my examples I can blame mainlanders or the less educated, etc…).
April 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I get that people are upset and scared and sometimes they just want to vent. And maybe it feels good to blame someone else, and we can imagine if only they had done better (for instance in my examples I can blame mainlanders or the less educated, etc…).
How does this help us build a movement? What do we do with the groups that had support > 50% for Trump? Which groupings should we consider? We have at least gender, geo, race and ethnicity, education level all massively changing the picture.
April 30, 2025 at 12:06 AM
How does this help us build a movement? What do we do with the groups that had support > 50% for Trump? Which groupings should we consider? We have at least gender, geo, race and ethnicity, education level all massively changing the picture.
Right but for instance how do we design the buckets we put people in? White women went for Trump by like 53% in 2024. So do we say, we don’t worry about that because enough black women stepped up and opposed him? And then what about the education divide?
April 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Right but for instance how do we design the buckets we put people in? White women went for Trump by like 53% in 2024. So do we say, we don’t worry about that because enough black women stepped up and opposed him? And then what about the education divide?
We can always find others to blame! Don’t worry about me. For instance if only men voted my state would still have gone for Kamala so I can safely blame mainlanders for the issue:
April 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
We can always find others to blame! Don’t worry about me. For instance if only men voted my state would still have gone for Kamala so I can safely blame mainlanders for the issue:
in fairness, these numbers are +/- 2.2% so Millennials are not significantly different from Boomers (and the gap in Gen X to Boomers/Millennials is barely into significance range). I know this narrative violation which makes me a fool for posting.
April 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
in fairness, these numbers are +/- 2.2% so Millennials are not significantly different from Boomers (and the gap in Gen X to Boomers/Millennials is barely into significance range). I know this narrative violation which makes me a fool for posting.
Minor suggestion: the main readme on github should have a bit more documentation you can guess but questions I have: how would I set this up to unify test and main in sbt (I guess some conditional bit of sbt magic). Are there any constraints on the def strings?
April 21, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Minor suggestion: the main readme on github should have a bit more documentation you can guess but questions I have: how would I set this up to unify test and main in sbt (I guess some conditional bit of sbt magic). Are there any constraints on the def strings?
It would be interesting to require the hash of some set of other skeets to prove that they happened before your skeet. Then with enough of the graph (definitely at least log S hashes per skeet where S is the total number) you could reorder the skeet graph (approximately with high probability).
April 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
It would be interesting to require the hash of some set of other skeets to prove that they happened before your skeet. Then with enough of the graph (definitely at least log S hashes per skeet where S is the total number) you could reorder the skeet graph (approximately with high probability).
I think it’s that there a lot of more people who are deeply distrustful of government now than during the Cold War. But I’m not a scholar of that period so maybe I’m wrong.
April 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I think it’s that there a lot of more people who are deeply distrustful of government now than during the Cold War. But I’m not a scholar of that period so maybe I’m wrong.
We aren’t good at testing random number generators or hash functions. I’ve written code to convert such tests to binomial distributions with bounded probabilities and then use the Chernoff bound to test.
March 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
We aren’t good at testing random number generators or hash functions. I’ve written code to convert such tests to binomial distributions with bounded probabilities and then use the Chernoff bound to test.
I wish I could say it was the first time I saw that.
March 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I wish I could say it was the first time I saw that.
Oh my goodness. Who could have guessed!?
February 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Oh my goodness. Who could have guessed!?
So sorry for your loss. She sounds like an extraordinary woman.
January 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
So sorry for your loss. She sounds like an extraordinary woman.