📰 Mathematical Thinking Isn’t What You Think It is, Quanta Magazine
Whenever you spot a disconnect between what your gut is telling you and what is supposed to be rational, it’s an important opportunity to understand something new. And then you can start this game of back-and-forth. Can you articulate your gut instinct and place it within a rational discussion?
FYI you don’t need a separate cross-posting service. Instead, cross-post to Bluesky, Mastodon, etc., using MicroBlog.
📰 Brian Potter, The Influence of Bell Labs, Substack
Someone bought the GoPros and mobile phones to broadcast the program. Things like this don’t just happen spontaneously.
Susie Wiles will be the first woman Chief of Staff, NYT
Honestly, this is a fine choice. She’ll run a tight ship, and that’s good for everyone—by which I mean all Americans.
You can’t love your country only when you win, you can’t love your neighbor only when you win.
— Joe Biden, November 7, 2024
🐦 Via Twitter, Nate Cohn estimates 157 million voters, matching 2020 in raw votes, but lower % of eligible voters when accounting for population growth.
I’ve seen enough—baring a deep surprise, Trump will win re-election. Not nearly enough blame will land on the Biden team for not stepping down a year ago, or even sooner rather than later after that disaster of debate. If if you’re angry in the morning, look at Jill, Jeff Zients (chief of staff).
Happy Halloweeen, everyone!
🎥 If my baby girl looks at me with half the glee that Rana looks at her dad, shit, a third, then I’m a success.
Numero Dos got his first strip in jiujitsu tonight
He was quite embarrassed and shy when they called him up.
Claude can interact and control your computer. At some point, AI will cease to be something extra and just part of normal computing. (Sooner, I suspect, rather than later.)
Musk on Sharks, or, in the words of Alex Tabarrok, “A great little video on over regulation.”
I just signed up for a three month Apple TV free trial (it came with the new work laptop purchase).
What’s good that I should add to my queue?
Rebuilding Drafts from backup. Very straightforward. But those warnings. They mean it when they say, don’t do it unless someone in support tells you. (Someone did, and I’m glad to have my full database back.)
👨🏽🏫 Unfollowing hyperpartisan social media influencers durably reduces out-party animosity
We found that incentivizing Twitter/X users to unfollow hyperpartisan social media influencers improved feelings toward the out-party by 23.5% compared to the control group, with effects persisting for at least six months.
I suspect those trends would hold for other social media accounts as well.
First pumpkin pie of the season
My son just figured out the joke behind “A & B conversation so C your way out of it.” My wife has been saying this to him for years, and just now, I said it and he started laughing, “Ooooooo! That’s so good dad.”
Then he came back a minute later, “Dad, you could even say ‘C’ Ya!, get it?!”