I have a theory that MAGA Republicans adore & worship #Trump just like diehard sports fans root for a bad football team. (Jets, Cardinals, Raiders, take your pick.)
Both are self-defeating & irrational. Both are notoriously poorly run organizations that consistently make bad decisions... but both fan groups passionately & blindly JUST. DON'T. CARE.
The problem is one is…
RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/117051699168165827
Why might moderators remove a scientific comment from a news subreddit?
Irrational anti-AI prejudice, maybe?
In the Wayback Machine, before removal:
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Classic instrumental hiphop at it finest... for keeping cool in this heat...
DJ Vadim — Theme From The Conquest Of The Irrational (The Prunes Remix, 1998)
#Music4Coding
Of course it didn't make a difference, but my irrational, non-specific worrying was vindicated yesterday. Received some very bad news about a close friend. Also, my dog got into something and is having butt issues now. Trying to find some humor in the way I'm telling myself "I told you so!"
https://jorts.horse/@fathermcgruder/11
As always, I wonder what the hell investors are thinking. But I always keep remembering the same thing:
- Investment isn’t about •actual• value, except maybe asymptotically. Investment is about correctly predicting what others will •perceive• as valuable.
- When some asset is hot but sketchy on the fundamentals, it doesn't matter whether some people know it or everyone knows it. It's just a game of chicken: just don't be the last to bail.
- Thus the old saying about betting against ill-founded popularity: the market can stay irrational a lot longer than you can stay solvent.
On the sharpness of Denjoy's theorem
Rohil Prasad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02380 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.02380 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.02380
arXiv:2608.02380v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Let $\omega$ be a concave modulus of continuity that is weaker than Lipschitz, meaning $\omega(t)/t$ diverges as $t$ approaches $0$. We construct a diffeomorphism of the circle with irrational rotation number, in the regularity class $C^{1 \omega}$, with a wandering interval. This construction implies that Denjoy's 1932 theorem is sharp in regularity, unless additional restrictions are imposed on the rotation number. The construction in the special case $\omega(t) = t\log(1/t)$ settles an open problem dating back to Herman's 1979 work on circle diffeomorphisms, which gave constructions for $\omega(t) = t\log(1/t)^{1 \varepsilon}$ for every $\varepsilon > 0$. Our examples arise as limits of periodic circle diffeomorphisms with rapidly converging rotation numbers.
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#Obit: Alan Greenspan kept interest rates too low for too long which significantly contributed to the housing bubble. He did have that great line about "irrational exuberance" of markets, though the man loved the stock market. Like, a lot.
#obituary #sarcasm #harsh #truth #Greenspan