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lanternfish··on U.S. math scores drop on major international test
I'd differentiate here between deductive and inductive reasoning. While english and history - through argumentation - expose some deductive reasoning, the vast majority of it is inductive.
lanternfish··on U.S. math scores drop on major international test
The problem is that mathematics education isn't just about learning times tables.

It's also the primary medium schools use to communicate analytical reasoning and deductive analysis. If you cut math as a target without fundamentally reworking curricular elements, you'll have a ton of graduates who are much worse at negotiating the validity of competing logical arguments.

lanternfish··on Willow, Our Quantum Chip
In short, no.
lanternfish··on DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
It's a distillation of the top level comment done in a sarcastic manner meant to indicate the dubious natute of the original claim.
lanternfish··on Trump wins presidency for second time
No, but you have to consider that the voted-for-jill-stein signal is considerably dampened from the didn't-vote-for-harris-because-of-Palestine signal; most of those people just wouldn't vote at all
lanternfish··on AI for real-time fusion plasma behavior prediction and manipulation
Even under your pedantic definition, the above commentator is still correct
lanternfish··on Trump wins presidency for second time
Exit polls, especially in Michigan, seem to disagree with this.
lanternfish··on GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic
Tests aren't a full solution for all the considerations of the above post.
lanternfish··on FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions
I think a huge part of this is that email providers use the functional existence of that link to screen spam.
lanternfish··on Why Gauss wanted a heptadecagon on his tombstone
It has to do with Fermat primes.
lanternfish··on GPTs and Hallucination
Except there is a qualitative difference in the class of knowledge that a statistical word generator and an expert system would generate.

Just because a LLM _can_ offer valuable and insightful information, doesn't mean that it doesn't also hallucinate. The most troubling factor here is that often the hallucinated content also looks like valuable and insightful information, but is just incorrect. This is the use. You have to hold that awareness whenever interacting with these systems.

lanternfish··on Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection
It's an especially subtle phish because the attacker basically tricks you into phishing yourself - remember, in the attack scenario, you're the one requesting the link!
lanternfish··on The ancient art of roasting agave
That would make sense. I saw it initially on the home page with the listed headline, and then saw it changed. I would think title length would be validated on submission.
lanternfish··on Harmonic Function Theory
Pretty exclusive private bay area school - not the norm by any means. It's offered as one of the electives after calculus - multivariable, linear algebra, and a rotating set of others.
lanternfish··on Harmonic Function Theory
My High School teaches it as the introductory Linear Algebra course and - while it is a bit difficult - it does an excellent job priming students to think about Lin Alg as a higher order discipline.

After doing it both ways, I really appreciate introducing vector spaces and linear transformations before even touching matrices.

lanternfish··on The ancient art of roasting agave
Curious as to why the title of this post was changed. The process of preservation here is just as much - if not more - important to the article than the actual practice.
lanternfish··on Why haven't biologists cured cancer?
Any technology purpose built to interface with cells would be a biological technology.
lanternfish··on Fungus breaks down ocean plastic
Review exponential functions.
lanternfish··on FTX bankruptcy examiner's report [pdf]
I know music theorists who definitely don't consider themselves strong performers or composers.
lanternfish··on How Safe Is SF?
They come to the conclusion that their crime numbers are reflecting underlying density differences, but then don't redo the analysis with a per-capita control? Seems like, without that, this isn't a very useful presentation.
lanternfish··on Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to clean up your Gmail inbox locally
Stealing the authentication is arguably way more invasive than this strategy.
lanternfish··on I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton
This isn't psuedoscience because it's not trying to be science. It's theoretical analysis - entirely different tradition.
lanternfish··on I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton
I agree that there's complexity there, but it's worth noting that it is a point of moderate contention whether those immigrants share the Black identity or just the black identity. More knowledgeable theorists than myself (and notably those actually party to these identities) have discussed this at more depth, and I recommend digging into it if you're interested.
lanternfish··on Someone built an LLM-powered Slay the Spire bot
More like Acrobatics, Acrobatics, Blade Dance
lanternfish··on Someone built an LLM-powered Slay the Spire bot
Metallicize is also strong because Ironclad has many powerful strategies that want a very thin deck - two dropkicks go infinite if you can get your deck small enough. Metallicize adds a solid block strategy to any deck and doesn't increase the effective deck size because powers don't really take a spot.
lanternfish··on I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton
It's also due to the unique conditions under which the Black identity was formed - that is forced colocation, separation from history, and systemic coidentification. Anyone who traces their history back to slavery, which many Black Americans can, basically has to stop there creating one pretty large "sub-group".

There's a case to be made - and some theorists do - that black and Black are different identities in America, the second directly corresponding to that shared loss of history.

lanternfish··on I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton
I'm confused - it seems like every example you give here supports the theoretical conclusion above.

"Black" as used in the editorial above is a very specific usage - replacing "African American" for the critical reasons outlined. The reason this group is unique as an ethnicity w.r.t. recategorization is because the structure and violence of slavery isolated them from historic ethnicities and forcefully regrouped them under a new one. This is why in that Habecker paper, peoples with dark skin and african heritage who were not part of that system try to separate themselves from that identity - that's why it exists!

I'd also argue that "Asian" probably _shouldn't_ be capitalized, and there are some theorists who agree. Really, asian only really exists as an ethnic category because Americans historically (and even now) couldn't really be assed to learn the basic geography of Asia and grouped it all.

lanternfish··on I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton
In America, captital-B Black is usually used to refer to people who were forcefully disconnected from their ancestry by the imposition of slavery. In many theoretical frameworks, it is an entirely new ethnic group by virtue of their original ethnicity being severed and the forced co-reculturalization through slavery and the subsequent (and continuing) power structures that forcefully and implicitly group them together.
lanternfish··on Someone built an LLM-powered Slay the Spire bot
Absolutely. Assuming you don't crack the deck prng, you have to furcate the decision tree for every possible order of cards whenever you shuffle the deck - that quickly gets to a number of states larger than atoms in the observable universe.

This also actually modifies strategy - top player Jorbs notoriously builds massive spreadsheets to crack tough decisions on important runs and deck order is huge for that.

lanternfish··on I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton
The actual critique - which is articulated in many places - is that "white" isn't an ethnic group with an actual cultural or racial lineage. Instead, "white" was created and exists as the dual to "colored" - a shifting category encompassing many ethnicities that describes their position in a set of power structures, historically colonialism. Consider that "whiteness" has changed considerably over the usage of the term, with many ethnicities (irish, italian) shifting into it as their position in American society (the cultural superpower of the time) changed.

To consider this further, shift the power structures and see how whiteness changes. Who is considered "white" in the historic USSR and contemporary ex-bloc states is radically different than the usage in America at the same time. This is even more complicated in places like Central or South America, India, and parts of Asia. I guarantee that - if you weren't versed with local power dynamics and colorism history - you wouldn't be able to classify who on the street is generally considered "white" in Buenos Aires.

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