When I die, which is a thing that will happen, I would like for people to remember and cherish the time I’ve spent with them, rather than speculate about my replacements because I’ve long overstayed my welcome
@f1121b7e it looks like they pulled back though once the fans got wind of it, which was the right call, especially after all Kuss did for them in the Giro and the Tour (and more). But you know with these riders, them ponies just gotta race -- its hard to stop them sometimes
@f1121b7e Vingo is nice, but he's definitely got a killer streak. Can't wait to see next year's Tour, which seems increasingly likely (bar injuries) will have all the biggest names in cycling of our generation go all out to dethrone Jonas from the podium
As an ex-physicist this is confusing, just because it seems like a profound challenge to Samuelson, Afriat, and the rest of revealed preferences, but pulls back at the last minute to preserve GARP by rationalizing these changes back into a preferences-oriented utility function.
So, why not just keep it as a potential energy term, and proceed the way physicists do, which is to use observations of outcomes to conjecture modifications and develop the theory? Doing so is also more amenable to accounting for sequencing, probabilistic outcomes, etc.
Some musings from sitting in on econ theory this term.
My neophyte interpretation behavioral econ: it's developing a "potential energy" term to the standard utility formulation of economics consisting of an unobserved quantity composed via some theory of observables, but instead posits it as a "coordinate change" than a utility modification
As an ex-physicist this is confusing, just because it seems like a profound challenge to Samuelson, Afriat, and the rest of revealed preferences, but pulls back at the last minute to preserve GARP by rationalizing these changes back into a preferences-oriented utility function.
"Behind the glossy AI-generated renderings what you have, on a policy level, is, ironically, the antithesis of innovation. It’s a full embrace of the status quo, a perpetuation and doubling down on 70 years of failed California development patterns."
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/solano-county-new-city-18351062.php
It should be clear now that decades of prioritizing STEM education while undercutting the social sciences and humanities has led to an ignorant elite composed of Elon Musk-types. It's time we prioritize practical knowledge, like History and Literature, over byzantine crafts like computer science.
I wonder if so-called "woke" cultural values have actually been a useful stitching mechanism not for Republicans against them, but actually for uniting various members of the Democratic coalition, e.g. business leaders and their employees, urban elites and suburban minority groups, ...
I am interested in articulating a European “dream” and project, one that might draw from the American infatuation with Europe, as the author here outlines for himself, but also one that lives up to the reality of Europe today and the near-universalist definition of Europe by Milan Kundera: “Maximum diversity in minimum space”. What does a grounded, integrated, yet still promising and hopeful Europe look like?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/opinion/american-expat-life-europe.html
What I think my version of engaging with conservatives looks like is actually deepening our conversation with liberal conservatives who identify with the center and center-left, because it’s important for us to strategically know how these thinkers circumscribe the boundaries around pragmatic pro-democracy/anti-domination change under a conservative heuristic.
@f1121b7e it looks like they pulled back though once the fans got wind of it, which was the right call, especially after all Kuss did for them in the Giro and the Tour (and more). But you know with these riders, them ponies just gotta race -- its hard to stop them sometimes
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