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Also...God is a figment of dim-witted imaginations.<br /><br />Also, CMike repeats Right-wing nonsense memes, not because he too is a right-wing piece of shit. He does it because he thinks it makes him look like a maverick. CMike is an idiot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-69374112385359724352019-04-29T04:45:49.230-04:002019-04-29T04:45:49.230-04:00Yeah well 3:46 AM, I'd say you check five or m...Yeah well 3:46 AM, I'd say you check five or more of <a href="https://medium.com/@zelphontheshelf/10-signs-youre-probably-in-a-cult-1921eb5a3857" rel="nofollow"><b>these boxes</b></a>. Best of luck getting back to thinking for yourself someday. CMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481861530761114492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-1104550297155602522019-04-29T03:46:38.259-04:002019-04-29T03:46:38.259-04:00CMike,
I find "virtue signaling" and &qu...CMike,<br />I find "virtue signaling" and "identity politics" useful terms to dismiss the concerns of society's most vulnerable (immigrants, women, gays, etc). In fact, that is exactly why Right-wingers use those terms. Same as when they use "All Lives Matter".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-38742605533491750492019-04-29T00:38:13.404-04:002019-04-29T00:38:13.404-04:0010:52 PM,
I understand why some people, who upon ...10:52 PM,<br /><br />I understand why some people, who upon first hearing the phrase "black lives matter" thought a sympathetic response to it was, "Yes, of course, all lives matter." However, unlike any of them who meant well enough including, I suppose, someone with whom, I suspect, you're willing to align yourself <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/04/pete-buttigieg-addresses-all-lives-matter-controversy.html" rel="nofollow"><b>[LINK]</b></a>, I have never used that response.<br /><br />I have always understood what "black lives matter" necessarily means because I have never forgotten, from the time I first read it in my teen years, one particular passage from a novel which powerfully argued against racism (and which was written, as night follows the day, by one of our country's greatest spokespersons against American imperialism):<br /><br /><b>[QUOTE]</b><br />“Now I can have a good look at you; and, laws-a-me, I’ve been hungry for it a many and a many a time, all these long years, and it’s come at last! We been expecting you a couple of days and more. What kep’ you?—boat get aground?”<br /><br />“Yes’m—she—”<br /><br />“Don’t say yes’m—say Aunt Sally. Where’d she get aground?”<br /><br />I didn’t rightly know what to say, because I didn’t know whether the boat would be coming up the river or down. But I go a good deal on instinct; and my instinct said she would be coming up—from down towards Orleans. That didn’t help me much, though; for I didn’t know the names of bars down that way. I see I’d got to invent a bar, or forget the name of the one we got aground on—or—Now I struck an idea, and fetched it out:<br /><br />“It warn’t the grounding—that didn’t keep us back but a little. We blowed out a cylinder-head.”<br /><br />“Good gracious! anybody hurt?”<br /><br />“No’m. Killed a n****r.”<br /><br />“Well, it’s lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt. Two years ago last Christmas your uncle Silas was coming up from Newrleans on the old Lally Rook, and she blowed out a cylinder-head and crippled a man. And I think he died afterwards. He was a Baptist. Your uncle Silas knowed a family in Baton Rouge that knowed his people very well. Yes, I remember now, he did die. Mortification set in, and they had to amputate him. But it didn’t save him. Yes, it was mortification—that was it. He turned blue all over, and died in the hope of a glorious resurrection. They say he was a sight to look at.... <br /><b>[END QUOTE]</b><br /><br />As far as "virtue signaling," and "identity politics" go, I find both of them perfectly useful terms <a href="https://v637g.app.goo.gl/BhJEoEqUy7AQpTaZ9" rel="nofollow"><b>[LINK]</b></a> to use. CMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481861530761114492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-37410836327095945962019-04-28T22:56:36.103-04:002019-04-28T22:56:36.103-04:00@2:09 and @4:45 -- I asked a former grad school bu...@2:09 and @4:45 -- I asked a former grad school buddy about who deserves credit for Dymanic Programming. My friend was close to Blackwell. He is a Statistics Professor Emeritus at a major university. He wrote:<br /><br /><i>David,<br /><br />Bellman gets a lot of credit, but it is partly due, I think, to his having chosen the name "dynamic programming" for the subject.<br />Much of the theory of "stochastic dynamic programming" is due to Blackwell. The most common name for this area is now "Markov decision theory.." Both Bellman and Blackwell made fundamental contributions. <br /><br />Blackwell also did important work on the theory of stochastic games.. His paper with Tom Ferguson on the "Big Match" led to many later developments.<br /><br />Side comment: I know from personal experience that Blackwell was a great teacher and a charming generous person. I have it on good authority that Bellman was a narcissistic asshole.<br /><br />Cheers,<br /></i><br />David in Calhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09068188536758619565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-79185434425326309172019-04-28T22:52:01.002-04:002019-04-28T22:52:01.002-04:00CMike,
In your list of Right-wing memes to repeat ...CMike,<br />In your list of Right-wing memes to repeat ("virtue signaling" and "identity politics") you forgot to mention "All Lives Matter".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-91692641114126182072019-04-28T21:25:37.240-04:002019-04-28T21:25:37.240-04:00@4:45 I should clarify. Freedman and Blackwell we...@4:45 I should clarify. Freedman and Blackwell were both brilliant, eminent Professors. They were both famous in their field.David in Calhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09068188536758619565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-53707058085966526122019-04-28T21:22:33.517-04:002019-04-28T21:22:33.517-04:00@2:56 - My wife studied graduate mathematics and s...@2:56 - My wife studied graduate mathematics and statistics quite a few years ago. She was not hazed. On the contrary, if anything she got extra attention from the Professors and good friendship with her classmates,David in Calhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09068188536758619565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-19727650786369418332019-04-28T21:00:24.518-04:002019-04-28T21:00:24.518-04:003:11 PM, a war mongering neoliberal, let's it ...3:11 PM, a war mongering neoliberal, let's it slip:<br /><br /><i>I wouldn't vote for him if he were the nominee.</i><br /><br />So much for 6:21 PM's bull excrement about Trump being "the common enemy." These centrists are all alike, they'd rather lose to a Republican than see an actual progressive elected. A little virtue signaling by way of identity politics, sure, but 5:11 PM has no intention of getting crazy enough to get behind a $15/hr. minimum wage bill.<br /><br />CMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481861530761114492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-83498841049006960702019-04-28T17:11:46.501-04:002019-04-28T17:11:46.501-04:00Sanders should be running in the GOP primaries thi...Sanders should be running in the GOP primaries this time. He's already pushed the Democratic Party to the left (to the point there are better, more left Democratic Party candidates than him). If he can move the GOP to the left, at all, by running in the GOP primaries, he'd be providing an amazing service to this country.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-26881722377670723882019-04-28T16:59:31.383-04:002019-04-28T16:59:31.383-04:00"What if your advisor doesn't do that?&qu..."What if your advisor doesn't do that?"<br /><br />Yeah, right. And what if the moon is made of cheese? Could that explain one's quitting an activity they have no brain and/or passion for? <br /><br />Why, I suppose it could, since in the zombie cult no PC bullshit is deemed too stupid. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-3489649314295268452019-04-28T16:45:26.296-04:002019-04-28T16:45:26.296-04:00Reading "Richard Bellman on the Birth of Dyna...Reading "Richard Bellman on the Birth of Dynamic Programming" by Stuart Dreyfus, who quotes Bellman extensively. Blackwell is never mentioned and they did not overlap or work together on Bellman's ultimate contribution. However, the area of research pre-existed Bellman's employment at Rand. Bellman, a visiting fellow from Stanford, was assigned to study multistage decision processes when he arrived at Rand. He did invent the name dynamic programming because Rand's granting agency, the Air Force, didn't want them doing pure mathematics.<br /><br />Bellman refers to the attitude of mathematicians toward the use of numerical analysis to obtain specific numeric solutions (answers) to questions -- "the computational solution of complex functional equations". This is what the women "calculators" assigned to NASA's space program did -- they found the numeric answers to practical questions using complicated equations. This was considered beneath white male mathematicians.<br /><br />Bellman says: "Like most mathematicians of my generation, I had been brought up to scorn this utilitarian activity. Numerical solution was considered the last resort of an incompetent mathematician. The opposite, of course, is true. Once working in the area, it is very quickly realized that far more ability and sophistication is required to obtain a numerical solution than to establish the usual existence and uniqueness of theorems."<br /><br />Below, Mao asks what kind of hazing occurs. Assignment to problems that are considered interesting by doctoral mentors and supervisors is an example. Women and minorities with the same degrees as men get assigned to work considered beneath male mathematicians. Those women worked for NASA because the jobs in mathematics open to men were closed to them. <br /><br />Bellman talks about saving ideas to give to his grad students for their dissertations. Apparently Blackwell did the same for Freedman. What if your advisor doesn't do that? Is that an advantage or a disadvantage? It is another part of the hazing that mentors don't do the same kind of mentoring for women and minorities that they do for male students. That too is "hazing". Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-51586587601269933032019-04-28T16:23:28.032-04:002019-04-28T16:23:28.032-04:00Lol. Tell me more, dembot, please. About these haz...Lol. Tell me more, dembot, please. About these hazings perpetrated by professors. All the gory details.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-39664552926588010722019-04-28T15:11:44.007-04:002019-04-28T15:11:44.007-04:00The best defense is a good offense, right CMike. N...The best defense is a good offense, right CMike. No one can argue that Bernie didn't damage Clinton in the general election. Now he is attacking all of the Democratic candidates in the same way he went after Clinton. The problem is that he didn't stop once she got the nomination, just as Sanders continued to attack the Democratic party after Trump was elected. He doesn't like Democrats. I don't think he should have been permitted run as one. I wouldn't vote for him if he were the nominee. He should bow out of the election and let actual Democrats select someone who belongs to their party. <br /><br />The hypocrisy of economic progressives voting for a millionaire (who has made money running for office) is as stunning as Republican hypocrisy. Bernie had no problem taking money from the Russians, accepting their social media help, and YOU think I'M a Russian bot! Try thinking for yourself CMike, instead of cutting and pasting the ideas Bernie feeds you. He is corrupt and you are being played for a fool.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-62840085794741551302019-04-28T14:56:38.358-04:002019-04-28T14:56:38.358-04:00Of course they leave at higher rates. So do women....Of course they leave at higher rates. So do women. Male students and male professors haze nontraditional students who try to enter STEM majors until the students decide it isn't worth it to continue. Affirmative action isn't the problem, the STEM culture is the problem.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-463239232952295062019-04-28T14:32:05.708-04:002019-04-28T14:32:05.708-04:00Thanks for your comment, @2:09. When I was at Ber...Thanks for your comment, @2:09. When I was at Berkeley studying probability theory, Blackwell was represented as the co-creator of Dynamic Programming, along with Bellman. Maybe that was an exaggeration.<br /><br />I recall going to a lecture on a paper written by Blackwell and David Freedman. They were both modest. Blackwell said Freedman had written the paper. Freedman said he had just written down a result which had been obtained by Blackwell.<br /><br />I did hear Blackwell lecture once. He took a complex result and not only proved it, but made it clear and understandable.David in Calhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09068188536758619565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-57218300469979361342019-04-28T14:09:36.339-04:002019-04-28T14:09:36.339-04:00Credit for dynamic programming is given to Richard...Credit for dynamic programming is given to Richard Bellman and Blackwell's name is not mentioned, except that Bellman's equation meets Blackwell's sufficient conditions. When you Google Blackwell, there is no mention of Bellman or dynamic programming among his many accomplishments. Blackwell was apparently at Rand Corporation up until 1950 but Bellman joined Rand in 1949 and was said to have developed dynamic programming during his many years there. Blackwell and Bellman did not co-author any papers, as they would have if Blackwell had collaborated with Bellman on Dynamic programming.<br /><br />I think it is a huge stretch to attribute dynamic programming to Blackwell, who has many other accomplishments to his name, but not this one. Blackwell did teach a course at Berkeley on Dynamic Programming. Maybe that is what has confused you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-40857937415641564962019-04-28T11:25:53.890-04:002019-04-28T11:25:53.890-04:00So if black kids learn about David Blackwell they ...So if black kids learn about David Blackwell they won't be shot by a cop while unarmed? Nice theory. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-31942951500069120302019-04-27T21:04:32.340-04:002019-04-27T21:04:32.340-04:00@6:34 I do agree with you that black kids, like al...@6:34 I do agree with you that black kids, like all kids, should be encouraged, goaded, inspired, and pushed. One way to do this would be to make black kids aware of the late David Blackwell, a brilliant black mathematician, who co-invented Dynamic Programming, a new field of mathematics. Instead, black kids are taught to emulate grievance mongers, like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, and black victims, as Jussie Smollett tried to become. Support for victims is so strong that Smollett was nominated for an award from the NAACP after his fakery had been exposed.David in Calhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09068188536758619565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-62704736788564481852019-04-27T20:07:09.349-04:002019-04-27T20:07:09.349-04:006:21 PM,
Your use of the term "Bernie bros&q...6:21 PM,<br /><br />Your use of the term "Bernie bros" can only mean you're here to sow dissension and try and get Trump reelected. Are you even a person?<br /><br />Most likely you're posting as anonymous because you're a Russian bot. I may not have been cynical enough to pick up right away on the game you're playing in this thread but it's obvious now you're a Trump or Putin agent posing as a tired cliche.<br /><br />Don't fall for 6:21 PM's pre-programmed tricks Howler thread readers. Vote to save America, vote Bernie 2020!<br />CMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481861530761114492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-58364498028046478582019-04-27T20:04:47.946-04:002019-04-27T20:04:47.946-04:00Mayor de Blasio might better serve the city’s kids...Mayor de Blasio might better serve the city’s kids, rather than just the more academically successful ones, if he would mandate all pregnant couples to take parenting classes taught by Asians. Ceceliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15162272807640653299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-21845770238489998592019-04-27T19:50:18.807-04:002019-04-27T19:50:18.807-04:00@6:34 - I never said math ability was not malleabl...@6:34 - I never said math ability was not malleable. My point was that students need to be in a class that at their level and that moves at the speed at which they're capable. You can see the result of affirmative action in college. "A new study shows that Latinx and black students leave STEM majors at far higher rates than their white peers."<br />https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/02/26/latinx-black-college-students-leave-stem-majors-more-white-studentsDavid in Calhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09068188536758619565noreply@blogger.com