Aryeh Kontorovich
@aryehazan
probability, statistics, metric spaces, Markov chains, freedom (social & academic), Israel, Jew stuff. opinions represent my employer & all other groups I'm in
I replace exact expressions by approximations that either never exceed or never deceed the original.
mostly enjoyed on the first watching but def not smtg to rewatch unlike say Seinfeld
I remember when Breaking Bad was on and everyone was always taking about it. Never watched it. Wasn’t interested at the time. But my feed was flooded with comments on it for years with every season. When I was laid up for a year with a broken spine. I was desperate for stuff to…
if you have N famous "classic" researchers in a field, then you can have N-choose-2 = N(N-1)/2 papers of the form "X meets Y" for example, has "Shannon meets Tukey" been done yet?
I romanticize the pastoral life but have enough self awareness
I think that 80% of people who dream of living on a farm wouldn't actually want to live on a farm (that's serious work) but they like the imagery.
this is the basis of the Rawlsian veil fallacy
this whole premise of a random generic human is irreparably broken there is no such thing nobody thinks this way conservatives are tribal liberals are anti-tribal (and hence also tribal) we're not ants, ant ethics don't apply
I'm waiting for them to make espresso in the morning and martini for lunch a Basic Human Right
BREAKING: In a landmark climate decision, the UN's top court says a "clean, healthy and sustainable environment" is a human right. apnews.com/article/un-cou…
my favorite genre of police arrest videos is when the guy asserts "sovereign citizen"
this whole premise of a random generic human is irreparably broken there is no such thing nobody thinks this way conservatives are tribal liberals are anti-tribal (and hence also tribal) we're not ants, ant ethics don't apply
Look. I don’t want to drag this on. But some questions need to be answered. Suppose that cats are sentient & able to experience extreme agony. You can save either 1 human stranger’s life, or prevent 10^100 cats from enduring 10 minutes of horrible torture each. What do you do?
here's a fun challenge for the machine learning folks we all know that the Perceptron will make at most 1/γ² mistakes on data separated with margin γ how would you prove that this is optimal -- in the sense that there does not exist an algorithm guaranteeing o(1/γ²) mistakes?…
absolutely brilliant the best @slatestarcodex houseparty piece yet
I'd say that the left truly hates classic liberalism with a passion, because its very principles (freedom of speech/association) are anathema to progressive goals the Right is a lot more lukewarm on classic liberalism free speech/association? great consenting adults? super…
It's almost as if liberalism is hated on all sides now, which is strange because it encompasses the most emancipatory set of norms in human history, without which the world would enjoy only a fraction of its current material prosperity.
I want every shrimp hypothetical to evolve into calculating the rate of gravitational collapse
10^100 shrimps have a combined mass about 10⁴⁵ times greater than all the matter in the known Universe, which would reverse the expansion and collapse the Universe in a fraction of a second
in the future, everyone will be a Qatari foreign agent for 15 minutes
Breaking: I just discovered that former U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett registered this month as a foreign agent for Qatar. Per the new FARA filings, he’s being paid $30k per month for 7 months to, and I quote, “publicize the fact that Qatari higher education efforts do…
has he tried heroin? fentanyl? there’s a whole world out there to explore kiddo
Hunter Biden breaks down the difference between crack & cocaine and why crack is so addictive
but how many shrimp can a fat man eat
Important clarifications. No man is fat enough to stop a trolley
don’t you have a 2nd kidney to donate
I just want Israel to tolerate rocket attacks like car crashes. We tolerate them to get to work on time; Israel must tolerate them to retain their humanity.
if you're a recovering addict and don't want to be judged then keep your mouth shut ffs
Hunter Biden claims Mossad knew about the October 7 attack a year in advance.
I have a pretty good theory see what I did there
it's crazy how non whites have no theory of mind for whites