is it even that anti-civil service? i know one of the creators was a thatcherite but it ends up validating the civil service's image of itself. it was probably quite comforting to think someone like humphrey appleby is running your country.
But nobody forced the Washington Post to sell to Bezos. Twitter's owners decided whatever disagreements they had with Musk on governance weren't worth 44B. The rich could very reasonably say: why should the opposition of third parties count for something?
"I use Claude code" - great. u should
"I use go" - hello, human resources?
feels like there's lots of 'failed' theories that LLMs suggest we should at least take another look at. like has anyone checked if the French structural linguistics people were onto something more? or the less mainstream cyberneticians?
I wouldn't even say they're wrong: what empire didn't leave behind violence and chaos when it collapsed? The British dismantled theirs more slowly and still you can trace many of the worst post WWII conflicts to that process. But once they start going all 'apres moi le deluge' it's already too late.
gnu info :)
If so, very neat! I really ought to learn discrete calculus properly sometime.
Just clarifying for myself what's going on: if T is the sum operator then
T = 1/(exp(D) - 1) = 1/D [D/exp(D)-1] = 1/D[B_0 + B_1/1! D + B_2/2! D^2 +...]
using that the GF for the Bernoulli nos is t/e^t - 1.
B_0 is 1 so T- 1/D has only positive powers of D. The definite version is just from the FTC.
Same way a huge chunk of programming language theory in CS now gets called AI.
I've caught myself actually making little grammatical slips or wording things less carefully than I otherwise would to avoid sounding like a bot.
it's just that everything else sucks even more
William Butler Yeats gazing in the direction of Bethlehem:
I think it's that most American left politics derives from a fundamentally religious impulse. Not that there's necessarily anything wrong with that, but there's an unmistakably Calvinist streak to these stances that then gets retroactively reasoned through.
Is this then just Kalecki's 'political aspects of full employment' thesis updated for a globalized economy?
Isn't what's happening the opposite of that story? A rigidly enforced system of property rights giving way to a lawless free-for-all?
I am yet to read a good explanation of why this was 'allowed' to happen. Taking a similar sledgehammer to something like the military apparatus remains completely out of the question, so what determines the actual red lines? And how is cutting off 1/5 of the world's oil supply on a whim not one?
Wait was that WPR?
Actually your position *is* the LTV, in vulgar form. A thing does not have intrinsic value: its price is determined by the minimum amount of total work required to produce it. The relevant example would be if a cheap robot could produce food of identical quality as an expensively trained chef.
I think the jury's still out on Thrasymachus. Domination and deception have yet to fail them. Quite the contrary: they have attained everything they wished for and more.
I don't understand. What makes this so much worse than, say, govts intervening in currency and equity markets, or all the stunts the BoJ has pulled in my lifetime?
Black hat with brim with white text embroidered on it saying "Ever since i was a small child i knew i wanted to be indoors on the computer"
To tie this with the theme of the original post, I suspect that fact can also be interpreted as a confluent hypergeometric function (the Bessel function) arising as degenerate case of a hypergeometric equation solution. If anyone knows anything please reply! 2/2
Very fun reference. I vaguely knew the story of Vilenkin relating special functions to representation theory, but it's a beautiful story. I didn't know, for instance, that the group contraction SO(3) to E_2 can be used to 'explain' why Bessel functions yield asymptotics for Legendre polynomials. 1/2
I was inclined to put those under the elliptic functions/abelian varieties bracket. Admittedly that would expand it to 'special functions only algebraic geometers properly understand.'
I can only think of two more: the gamma function class (leading to some of the fancier random matrix special fnuctions) and Painlevé transcendents. Any others?
Now you mention it, that also explains how to get the transformation formulas: fix one singular point and swap the other two and you get another solution. The two changes z ↦ 1-z and z ↦ 1/z should generate the full family.
From their perspective I'm not sure it's more rational to rip up the entire petrodollar order than to try to smooth things over once this ends. Neither side would recover from a US-Gulf split, too much has been invested.
this is what we have the renormalization group for
Goku is just at a critical point