DEI is over but that doesn't mean you're done. behold the anti DEI mandatory trainings (UT Austin)
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New DDL project -> Help us crowdsource India's economic history!
We're making a complete collection of India's district handbooks c.1951–2011, digitizing ALL the tables, harmonizing districts, variables, villages over time.
You can help! 🧵👇
census.devdatalab.org/distri…
I want to see what the results would have been with the districts from before the gerrymandering arms race
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There’s a lot of writing on what AI means for rich-country economies and far less on what it means for Nairobi, Lagos or Lima.
@asteriskmgzn and @indevmag want to fix that. Essay contest: $10k first prize, deadline Dec 31.
indevelopmentmag.substack.co…
chinmay retweeted
Launching Junction: come speed-run the semiconductor tech tree this December in Bangalore.
We’re flying in students from all over India 🇮🇳 to a 2-week fabrication retreat at @_lagrangepoint to build equipment, design chips and engineer processes, with our friends at @hackerfabindia.
India still needs thousands of semicon engineers -- the ecosystem to produce them isn’t mature enough yet -- we're changing that.
Current applicants have built vacuum chambers to study plasma physics, RISC-V processors from scratch, scanning tunneling microscopes, et cetera
At junction you will:
1. Propose a project
2. Figure out a plan with the Junction team.
3. Iterate fast towards a working prototype, with help from the Junction team
4. Be mentored by top semiconductor hackers and specialists.
5. Demo to industry leaders, founders, investors, and your fellow craftspeople
Flights, accommodation and project expenses? All covered. Apply on the link below
I'm no big fan of the Saez-Zucman agenda (just ask @bashar_econ), but this is bad-faith, and even worse, very silly. It also arguably boosted my impression of the quality of the research, given that the "major" errors found in their *lifetime* of work look like this!
Errors in the research of Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman marginalrevolution.com/margi…
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Did Holmes understand the A&C joke?
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i've been toying with the idea that the purpose of education has always been creating a shared context, culture, and socialization to make learning easier (plus screening)
it's otherwise difficult to rationalize that coursera/edx taught many but did ~ nothing to formal education
It's honestly not clear what the purpose of education is now. To teach useful work skills? AI can do anything you learn in class. To teach you to think? Can't you pick stuff up while working? For aesthetic value? Are most classes particularly aesthetically interesting?
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I went to the Jantar Mantar protest frequently during June-July. Early on, there were not many people --- a couple hundred, maybe. It grew slowly, and only after several weeks did it become the sensation that it is remembered as.
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Personally, the Emergency brings back many memories. As youngsters, we learnt a lot during the anti-Emergency movement.
Seems premature to declare it the end of careers in pure math research. I would ask, before all else, what was your model of why pure math research was funded in the past, and what part or parameter of that model has changed?
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One thing to remember is that most funding of mathematics departments happens because students want to learn math, and I doubt that is going away.
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