assemblyman

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by assemblyman 20d ago
You do you but I love both crows and pigeons. Pigeons are awesome once you get to know them and they don't spread disease which is a common misconception - https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240620-why-do-pe
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by assemblyman 21d ago
Of course no one reasonable would paint a huge population with a brush like that. I am pushing back on the narrative in this thread because many non-immigrants in this country infer the experience of an immigrant (like you, I am an immigran
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by assemblyman 21d ago
This might seem like an academic point but the support of all xenophobic people for these changes doesn't imply that some non-xenophobes don't support these changes (or ones in the same spirit) as well. I don't know what the
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by assemblyman 21d ago
I was questioning the renewals every six months and asking about US visas which are granted for 6 months (i.e. expire after 6 months). I am aware of renewals requiring leaving the country.
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by assemblyman 21d ago
At least the procedure used to be that one would try to get an appointment at the US consulate in one's home country and then arrange the trip around it. Also, at least in my experience (but importantly, not with this administration) w
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by assemblyman 21d ago
Were the visas for the US? B1/B2? I know stuff like this happens for digital nomads in southeast asia or Schengen but the US generally doesn't approve of "visa runs".
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by assemblyman 21d ago
I don't want to minimize your friend's situation. But, a spousal visa is very different from being a permanent resident (maybe I am misunderstanding). If he got it through marrying a US citizen, there's a 3-year wait for natu
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by assemblyman 21d ago
At least for F1 and H-1B visas, one wasn't required to get a new visa physically stamped (for which one would have to leave) to switch schools (undergrad -> grad) or jobs. Is this forced now? Of course, if one wanted the freedom to
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by assemblyman 4mo ago
As a curiosity, the contrast between Grothendieck and Ramanujan is very striking. One famous story about Ramanujan from Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_(number) ): "Hardy stated that the number 1729 f
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by assemblyman 4mo ago
Peter Woit ( https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/ ) has occasionally posted about Grothendieck's life and work. E.g. Articles on his life: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/word
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by assemblyman 7mo ago
My point is that it's really the storytelling/gregarious nature character. There is no shortage of people who were at the Manhattan project and won Nobel prizes or were prominent. A partial list: Oppenheimer, Bethe, Rabi, Teller,
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by assemblyman 7mo ago
It is very interesting to see completely different impressions of Feynman from comments here. As a physicist, I first got introduced to Feynman from his popular QED book as a freshman in college. Over the years, I came to admire his contrib
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by assemblyman 9mo ago
I think you are writing your comments conditioned on not just what you are responding to but also a lot of internal assumptions about their intentions. The person you are responding to said or implied nothing about surveillance or Western a
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by assemblyman 9mo ago
I feel the American media and general public has gotten psyched by the recent announcements coming from China. This might be new weapons or Deepseek or conveniences in the cities. I wish the Chinese people all the best and sincerely hope th
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by assemblyman 9mo ago
Even with thick desires, I sometimes find myself day-dreaming about the state when I have mastered a skill or understood a topic deeply. At the same time, I know from experience that the process never ends. Even when one does master a skill
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by assemblyman 9mo ago
As one example, I met quite a few graduate students from Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) who ranked high enough in the entrance tests to study computer science/engineering or electrical engineering but really wanted to study phy
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by assemblyman 9mo ago
I came to the US for college from Asia to study physics (and mathematics). I actually came to study astronomy because I found it fascinating but didn't really like physics or math. My first physics encounter in college here transformed
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by assemblyman 9mo ago
Renting can be much better financially than buying. Edit: all % numbers are per year Consider the case of condos in cities. If you were to buy outright, you effectively get a return by not paying rent (i.e. paying yourself rent). Rent is us
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by assemblyman 10mo ago
I haven't thought about or learned a systematic way to add roman numerals. But, I would argue that the difference is not notation but a fundamental conceptual advance of representing quantities by b (base) objects where each position a
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by assemblyman 10mo ago
I am not in Seattle. I do work in AI but have shifted more towards infrastructure. I feel fatigued by AI. To be more precise, this fatigue includes several factors. The first one is that a lot of people around me get excited by events in th
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by assemblyman 10mo ago
I find software engineers spend too much time focused on notation. Maybe they are right to do so and notation definitely can be helpful or a hindrance, but the goal of any mathematical field is understanding. It's not even to prove the
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by assemblyman 10mo ago
In the same vein, I always wondered if * the vast majority (including me) are not really very intelligent. We have a lot of "state" that's transferred from generation to generation. Once in a while, a very small percentage of
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by assemblyman 10mo ago
>>You can’t avoid the reality that’s your life depends on something else dying. Either plant insect or animal There are more nuanced ways of thinking about this. A good example is Jainism's version of vegetarianism which requires
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by assemblyman 10mo ago
I keep seeing the argument that non-returners are creating jobs. Does that mean they also throw their trash on the streets so cleaners have to be hired? Should one randomly break into houses so every people need to hire security guards? How
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by assemblyman 10mo ago
I always wondered if there are people who don't have a clear distinction between their private space/home and public space. Whether it's not putting their carts back, or talking loudly on the phone/playing music in a gym
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by assemblyman 10mo ago
It's very heartening to read this sentiment. Thank you!
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by assemblyman 10mo ago
100% agree. In south asia and south east asia (maybe other parts too), it's very common to have insects like spiders, lizards, local bugs, ants inside apartments and houses. No one bats an eyelid and, if we felt, a larger insect was tr
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by assemblyman 10mo ago
I find this obsession with building strange. It's a very SaaS Silicon Valley mindset. There are whole swathes of very talented engineers who spend most of their time debugging, characterizing systems, doing performance analysis and res
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by assemblyman 10mo ago
I am a big fan of using LLMs although in my own limited way. I don't work at Meta and don't feel strongly about him leaving or staying there. It's possible that he will turn out to be correct in the long run. From his viewpoi
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by assemblyman 10mo ago
A few people mentioned Meta burning through people like LeCun, Carmack and Luckey. We give a lot of credit to individuals in our society. At the same time, there's a frequent pattern of very successful people changing fields, organizat

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