The basic issue with Asian parenting in the West is that it tries to forcefeed a scarcity mindset into kids obviously living in a post-scarcity society
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pfp by @ShizzyAizawa. Post-Newtonian heterodox economist. Inventor of the JvN hypothesis. World champion of econ/food ragebait. Hermit savant. Omakase critic
Joined August 2013
- 17-year old fashion design high school student randomly reads a bunch of math textbooks for fun and gets 12th place in an international math contest, scoring higher than a bunch of math majors at top universitiesThe feel good 💕story of the year: China's Good Will(a) Hunting, Vocational Fashion Student and Improbable Math Genius 17-year old vocational high school student Jiang Ping, who spends her days studying fashion design and literally making clothes, places 12th out of 801
- Once during COVID, I was at a virtual conference; a PhD student was presenting and was like, "it's 3am here and I'm really tired, so, here's what I'm going to do. I'll play a prerecorded video of me giving me talk, and if you have any questions, I'll pause it and answer"
- Simple evidence that humans are basically irrational is that this costs roughly $50 one time, saves 20 seconds a day for years, and nobody does thisStandardizing on one sock type is the ultimate life improvement
- Sometimes history just puts the right people in the right place at the right time. You thought you were cancelling a fresh PhD grad; instead you've created what looks to be one of the great posters of our eraA gorgeous and talented woman, undoubtedly, and I am in no position to question this tweet. The desire to present oneself as odourless, though, could be seen as a preventative measure against disgust, which speaks to the widespread association between women and malodour.
- Computer scientists more or less rewrote statistics without learning it well, just rediscovering everything useful and ignoring everything that isn't useful. Stats guys are still mad about the renaming of everything
- The mathematics textbook cartel is incredible. Every mathematician in the world knows the intuitive interpretations of all the theorems, but nobody bothers writing them down in the textbooks
- If you make like $200k in America, you make enough that it becomes $-per-hour inefficient not to doordash all your groceries, most of your meals, maybe even your coffee. But do you lose some part of your humanity if you never go to the grocery store, or buy your own coffee?Replying to @balajisi knew a billionaire that would deliberately take the time to walk and get coffee each morning, no one knew who he was, but he enjoyed the ritual of it all. was always astounded how much time he wasted doing this, but maybe the stillness was worth it to him
- Whiplash is an excellent movie because the non-grinders see it as a warning message of the horrors that can happen to you if you grind too hard, whereas the grinders see it as a grotesquely triumphant celebration of the grind
- Replying to @alz_zyd_1. This was hilarious 2. This actually raises an interesting question. It's 2024, video recording exists. What in the world is the point of us all making slides, prepping and memorizing 30-minute talks, when we could just... do it once and play the recording
- reminder, the entry-level tech job market is still totally cooked, like 4.0's from Berkeley are getting 0 job offers
- One of the nuttiest things I've ever heard: apparently Terence Tao got bored at some point and decided to spent a little time doing some applied math and and yea he then just goes back to doing pure math
- Why are Americans, on average, so incredibly good at presenting/selling/ (you could uncharitably call it) BS-ing? Is it something about early/middle/high school education? Culture? Parents teaching their kids?
- I literally gave an 11 yr old kid a college set theory textbook and he's making decent progress, 1.5 sections in two days, like he is smart, but like I think with a little guidance kids can be pushed _way_ harder than they are in school
