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November 18, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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If the former Prince Andrew is now known as “Randy Andy,” what should Professor Summers now be called?
Harvard should take a page from King Charles and strip Professor Larry Summers of his title.
November 18, 2025 at 3:50 AM
If the former Prince Andrew is now known as “Randy Andy,” what should Professor Summers now be called?
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November 18, 2025 at 3:54 AM
larry summers won't see your posts mocking him but you gotta learn to do these things for the love/hate of the game
November 18, 2025 at 3:50 AM
larry summers won't see your posts mocking him but you gotta learn to do these things for the love/hate of the game
some say the larryposting will be transitory. frankly that's one of the least responsible takes of the last 40 years
November 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
some say the larryposting will be transitory. frankly that's one of the least responsible takes of the last 40 years
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my wife just said "the larry summers of our discontent" and i had to sit down for a minute
August 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
my wife just said "the larry summers of our discontent" and i had to sit down for a minute
sorry I meant Paul Samuelson's nephew
November 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
sorry I meant Paul Samuelson's nephew
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My brush with academia has taught me that, contra the Great Man theory of human advancement, for every big name Harvard Professor of Whatever there are ten other people who could produce equally good research in the same position. I'm sure one of them isn't a shithead
November 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
My brush with academia has taught me that, contra the Great Man theory of human advancement, for every big name Harvard Professor of Whatever there are ten other people who could produce equally good research in the same position. I'm sure one of them isn't a shithead
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Counterpoint: it's fine for Universities to cut ties with people for being sex creeps. In fact, it's a positive good. Far too many women avoid academia precisely because of shitheads like Summers.
Add to the fact that his code name for her was "peril", likely in reference to "yellow peril"...
Add to the fact that his code name for her was "peril", likely in reference to "yellow peril"...
I have no sympathy for any of Summers’ comments. But universities should not cut ties with people whose comments and/or private associations they find odious, even when they are right. If he violated either the law or university regulations, fine. Otherwise, not so much.
Per CNN, Elizabeth Warren is calling on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after Jeffrey Epstein's emails released last week by House Dems featured Summers making sexist comments + asking for Epstein’s romantic advice.
November 17, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Counterpoint: it's fine for Universities to cut ties with people for being sex creeps. In fact, it's a positive good. Far too many women avoid academia precisely because of shitheads like Summers.
Add to the fact that his code name for her was "peril", likely in reference to "yellow peril"...
Add to the fact that his code name for her was "peril", likely in reference to "yellow peril"...
the theory that launched a thousand possibles
November 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
the theory that launched a thousand possibles
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We should introduce a new heuristic for judging academic careers: If they pursue the same field than their famous academic relatives, it's likely because of networks not ability.
November 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Artemis The First Flight
YouTube video by Derek Newsome
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Matthew Rhys is so good in The Beast In Me
November 17, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Matthew Rhys is so good in The Beast In Me
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i built a game! it's an experimental pvp prompt engineering arena, with a shared/networked model context, and per-user model outputs.
dark forest chat
dark forest chat
November 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
i built a game! it's an experimental pvp prompt engineering arena, with a shared/networked model context, and per-user model outputs.
dark forest chat
dark forest chat
what i'm learning from en-dash/em-dash discourse is most of you don't write in tex
November 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM
what i'm learning from en-dash/em-dash discourse is most of you don't write in tex
ceci est stationnaire
November 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
ceci est stationnaire
characteristically thought-provoking. among the thoughts this sparked: is there _any_ quantitative way to measure "economic welfare" that doesn't eventually suffer the madness of ubiquitous rational surrogacy? #linklog
Real purchasing power over time is not economic welfare over time
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November 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
characteristically thought-provoking. among the thoughts this sparked: is there _any_ quantitative way to measure "economic welfare" that doesn't eventually suffer the madness of ubiquitous rational surrogacy? #linklog
everything's been said before; i don't think i have a point; here are words about things
Building rational surrogates
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November 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
everything's been said before; i don't think i have a point; here are words about things
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You can do SO MUCH more good when you spend time getting things “right” when it will make a difference, and figuring out when you don’t actually need that precision.
November 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
You can do SO MUCH more good when you spend time getting things “right” when it will make a difference, and figuring out when you don’t actually need that precision.
existence of epistemic capture implies existence of epistemic release
November 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
existence of epistemic capture implies existence of epistemic release
do not repeat the glimmers of this insight
Attention to this matter is all you need.
November 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
do not repeat the glimmers of this insight
taking notes
"you post with eignevalues of 1. i post with eignevalues in the complex plane. we are not the same"
November 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
taking notes
i can't explain it but claude code is much better than the cursor agent at making things actually work. some of it might be skills, maybe cursor rules just don't do the same work, but the cc agents seem a lot more thoughtful about debugging and testing
November 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
i can't explain it but claude code is much better than the cursor agent at making things actually work. some of it might be skills, maybe cursor rules just don't do the same work, but the cc agents seem a lot more thoughtful about debugging and testing
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Okay, so maybe I wasn't too mean to him ...
November 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Okay, so maybe I wasn't too mean to him ...