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Obviously relies on lots of assumptions (everyone you save would have equivalent life span).
August 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Obviously relies on lots of assumptions (everyone you save would have equivalent life span).
How do you get that? If I take the SSA actuarial tables and multiply survival prob to that age x death prob x remaining life expectancy, I get 0.45 years at age 0, vs 0.21 years at age 60 for men (similar for women)
August 15, 2025 at 4:08 AM
How do you get that? If I take the SSA actuarial tables and multiply survival prob to that age x death prob x remaining life expectancy, I get 0.45 years at age 0, vs 0.21 years at age 60 for men (similar for women)
That’s starting at 7:30am, working to 10pm. Every day. Nothing else.
Call me skeptical.
Call me skeptical.
August 4, 2025 at 5:25 AM
That’s starting at 7:30am, working to 10pm. Every day. Nothing else.
Call me skeptical.
Call me skeptical.
101.5 hours / week is 14.5 hours a day, every day for 2.5 years.
August 4, 2025 at 3:29 AM
101.5 hours / week is 14.5 hours a day, every day for 2.5 years.
I’m willing to bet that the process of maths research is going to look a lot different in a 5 years time.
July 22, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I’m willing to bet that the process of maths research is going to look a lot different in a 5 years time.
I plugged in your question about the max guaranteed win from betting on playing cards to every LLM I could find. Gemini was the only one which got the correct answer.
July 22, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I plugged in your question about the max guaranteed win from betting on playing cards to every LLM I could find. Gemini was the only one which got the correct answer.
In case it’s not obvious,Merced being the smallest of the UCs, and one of only two in counties where Trump won the plurality of the 2024 vote share (the other being Riverside).
July 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
In case it’s not obvious,Merced being the smallest of the UCs, and one of only two in counties where Trump won the plurality of the 2024 vote share (the other being Riverside).
Or he could make a donation: that’s $5 billion he was planning to give to Stanford would instantly give it the 22nd largest endowment.
July 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Or he could make a donation: that’s $5 billion he was planning to give to Stanford would instantly give it the 22nd largest endowment.
So the best option to solve Marc’s problem would be to tax him more to fund a massive expansion of UC Merced.
July 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
So the best option to solve Marc’s problem would be to tax him more to fund a massive expansion of UC Merced.
These guys are supposed to be into looking for ways to scale solutions to problems. And as you point out, we did: they’re called state universities.
If you look at a list of the Top 100 US universities, typical the only ones in the list founded after WWII are the newer UCs.
If you look at a list of the Top 100 US universities, typical the only ones in the list founded after WWII are the newer UCs.
July 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
These guys are supposed to be into looking for ways to scale solutions to problems. And as you point out, we did: they’re called state universities.
If you look at a list of the Top 100 US universities, typical the only ones in the list founded after WWII are the newer UCs.
If you look at a list of the Top 100 US universities, typical the only ones in the list founded after WWII are the newer UCs.
MIT and Stanford enroll 3k undergraduates each year , or about 0.1% of graduating high schoolers in the US. They can’t also get in because, well, most people don’t!
July 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
MIT and Stanford enroll 3k undergraduates each year , or about 0.1% of graduating high schoolers in the US. They can’t also get in because, well, most people don’t!
How did I forget Carmen San Diego.
July 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
How did I forget Carmen San Diego.
Last names as place names are always bad ass: Johnny Utah, Duncan Idaho.
July 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Last names as place names are always bad ass: Johnny Utah, Duncan Idaho.
Eh, a lot of math departments get to justify their relatively large size despite their paltry grant funding by teaching service courses.
June 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Eh, a lot of math departments get to justify their relatively large size despite their paltry grant funding by teaching service courses.
My hot take: out of order execution needs out of order programming language.
May 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
My hot take: out of order execution needs out of order programming language.
Also he was about the same age as Julia Childs who also grew up in Pasadena. Just saying there is an interesting alternative history there.
April 27, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Also he was about the same age as Julia Childs who also grew up in Pasadena. Just saying there is an interesting alternative history there.