Prompt: AI has automated quite a lot of (but not all) math research, but at the same time AI jobs require more advanced math, increasing the demand for math B.Sc.s and B.A.s. How does this change math academia?
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I write about public transport and do research for NYU's Marron Institute. I've previously lived in Tel Aviv, Singapore, the Riviera, New York, Providence, Vancouver, Stockholm, Paris.
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Broke: Abitur is the equivalent of an American bachelor's degree
Woke: a master's degree at a German university is the equivalent of an American bachelor's degree
(Brought to you by my looking at some math lecture notes and course plans for Berlin universities)
Woke: a master's degree at a German university is the equivalent of an American bachelor's degree
(Brought to you by my looking at some math lecture notes and course plans for Berlin universities)
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@shriramk @jack Evidently, they were different enough for Hórthy to pass Nürnberg-style laws on his own accord.
And Hungary was plenty imperialist on its own, it was just on land and not by sea as with Portugal and Spain. In Portugal, as it is, there wasn't much racial diversity until very recently - the black population was by modern standards very low (10% in Lisbon in 1500, much lower elsewhere) and assimilated with the generations after manumission, and immigration went the other way.
And Hungary was plenty imperialist on its own, it was just on land and not by sea as with Portugal and Spain. In Portugal, as it is, there wasn't much racial diversity until very recently - the black population was by modern standards very low (10% in Lisbon in 1500, much lower elsewhere) and assimilated with the generations after manumission, and immigration went the other way.
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@shriramk I mean, Hungary was 5% Jewish before WW2. Like elsewhere in Europe, it's not that Hungary was never diverse so much as that it became monocultural through genocide and ethnic cleansings that happened within living memory.
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Pedestrian Observations: Why High Speed 2 and Other European Lines Make Fewer Stops than the Shinkansen https://pedestrianobservations.com/2026/04/06/why-high-speed-2-and-other-european-lines-make-fewer-stops-than-the-shinkansen/
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Scandinavian road and rail infrastructure projects this century have on average been on-budget. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263786325001127#cebibl1
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@RustyFreewheel Both are correct. Hezbollah fired on Israel and chose to enter the Iran war on the Iranian regime's side. It is not an unprovoked invasion the way the Russian invasion of Ukraine is.
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@gimulnautti Modulo a couple ten thousand deaths, sure.
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@klaremitte Ich verstehe nicht - warum hat Merz eine Kippa im Bild?
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