rchung.bsky.social
Anti-social social scientist with low amusement threshold.
When you do theoretical mathematical demography it's good to have a Plan B so I ride a bike.
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Be willing to turn around if the situation demands it: the mountain will still be there tomorrow. Have a great time!
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Breaking things is the goal.
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Unfortunately, I had to teach that semester and although I could do the lectures, I couldn't grade. I knew when an answer was wrong but I couldn't decide how much credit to give. My decision-making was so tied up with my mom's stuff that I had none left over for grading. My GSI bailed me out.
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Best wishes to your dad (and mom, and you, and the rest of the family).
I was the only kid in the area when my mom passed, the others had moved far away, so clearing her house devolved to me. Every box, every drawer, every closet was required a decision and that was draining.
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I like that you chose that particular slide.
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A couple of my nephews learned to read with graphic novels. Another taught himself to read with a video game hint book: he was younger and less coordinated than kids next door, but your turn only ended when you lost. They all read pretty well today.
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Flying While Brown
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I couldn't help myself and at the door I paused and admitted, sheepishly, "I thought I'd discovered that." Debreu was a nice guy so he said, "But ... you did!"
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He said, "if you're interested in this, look at this paper." What I'd done was like eq. 3 on page 1, and there were several pages after that. We talked for a while, I took the paper, thanked him, and got up to leave.
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When I was an undergrad, I took a class with Gerard Debreu. He said something in lecture one day that piqued my interest so I thought about it and went to his office hours to show him what I worked out. He listened, nodded, then went to a file cabinet and pulled out a paper he'd written long before.
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About precedence of discovery: Leslie independently published his work on matrix models right after Bernardelli, and Galton&Watson published their work on stochastic branching models decades after Bienayme. Von Foerster came decades after McKendrick. Lotka was 150 years after Euler.
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I'd been thinking of doing a course lecture on the similarities between the two for a while (but I don't usually have time to fit everything I want). I think your textbook had a big role in raising awareness of K.
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I watch how people move their shopping carts in the supermarket and then keep that in mind when we get out to the parking lot.
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Thanks!
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Hmmm. Me too.
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To be fair, I spend a lot of time in France and fertitlity = fecondité and fecundity = fertilité so I often have to pause and figure out who I'm talking to and where I am. Same with population biologists.
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OK, Trump likes B or C-list celebrities he can dominate, who will defer to him. Some people see farther by standing on the shoulders of giants. Trump doesn't care to see farther but likes standing on the necks of C-list celebrities.
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I considered Andrew Tate but I had decided not. You're making me reconsider.
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Joe Rogan, but it's kind of a step down, so I'm thinking Mel Gibson.