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> Another classic essay showing how textbooks repeat other textbooks without properly questioning what should be taught is https://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/lg5/Rota.pdf. If you've taken some variant of the differential equations course that he discusses, I highly recommend reading his essay. I guarantee that it is far from the only standard course with such levels of silliness.

Thank you for sharing Rota's delightful lecture! I wish more professors/instructors took a critical look at their material, which is nearly always is taught in the order that was put in place for some now utterly irrelevant or forgotten reasons. If the science progresses at the speed of the hearse, the education of scientific subjects barely moves at all.

> I'm reading tea leaves here, but my guess as to why she was never hired is that she was deemed "unable to get grants".

Rest assured, this is exactly what happened. University administrators have no expertise, interest, or motivation to identify and invest in promising research direction - they outsource this task to funding agencies. The only signal universities are extremely skillful in reading is dollar amounts.

I do not necessarily criticize this setup. Think of a research university as a start-up accelerator of sorts. Its main task is to give resources to secure sources of funding, not provide funds themselves.

Te Harvard Thucydides’s Trap Project has identified sixteen cases in which a major rising power has threatened to displace a major ruling power. Twelve of these sixteen rivalries ended in war.

I understand the comment's thesis, but I'd like to see more accurate numbers used where real health outcomes are concerned.

The lifetime risk of being diagnosed with colorectal cancer is ~4%. (With the odds trending higher for the younger generation.) The risk of _death_ from this cancer is ~1%.

Kevin Mitnick got commemorated this way. How do I know it? Because I asked about the black band, and the good people of HN explained that to me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36803421

Should have been 273K, right?

Anything procedurally generated is antithetical to professional font design. Fonts at different sizes are carefully fine-tuned exactly for the reasons that you mentioned, i.e., small features at larger sizes start looking wrong.

Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

(in mice)

Native Russian speaker here. It is a perfectly acceptable and common practice when one wants to include Russian phrases in an otherwise non-Cyrillic text. "Doveryai no proveryai", etc.

Thanks for clarification and pointing to the forum guidelines. I hoped I was being charitable, trying to explain away the cluelessness of the comment.

Hmmm? Is someone experimenting with GPT-3 commenting on NH? Because it sure feels like it - the comment is mostly grammatical, uses approximately correct jargon, and completely nonsensical.