Very much in this spirit is the NSF-funded National Deep Inference Fabric, which lets researchers run remote experiments on foundation models: https://ndif.us. They just announced a pilot program for Llama405b!
> The residents group even stopped a comically ugly post-war Tesco from being demolished, pressuring Westminster City Council to designate the Dean Street store an ‘Asset of Community Value’.
Seems like there's a conflict here between the interests of the residents and the general public. I can't imagine eating out every night is something affordable or desirable for the locals.
People move in to areas that are famous for their grubby nightlife and “liveliness” only to then whine and protest about the nightlife and associated noise. Not moving there in the first place never crosses their minds.
It’s a wonderful hodgepodge of bars, restaurants, clubs, queer life, sex clubs, prostitution and general seediness. May it remain so.
some gentrifiers are pulled into 'grubby, lively' neighborhood because they're attracted to those qualities. these gentrifiers won't complain and will likely try to preserve those attributes.
but there's another class of gentrifiers that aren't pulled into these neighborhoods. rather, they are pushed out of the places they'd like to live and have to settle for the grubby lively neighborhood. these are the ones that complain because they don't really want to be there in the first place.
people don't like to talk about this distinction because they like to treat all gentrifiers as invaders/colonizers without realizing that many of them are also displaced from their neighborhoods
The cheapest flat currently for sale in Soho is listed at £525,000. If someone has been displaced to one of the most expensive neighbourhoods in Europe, I will play them a song on the world's tiniest violin.
> but there's another class of gentrifiers that ... are pushed out of the places they'd like to live and have to settle for the grubby lively neighborhood. these are the ones that complain because they don't really want to be there in the first place.
In my experience, these people are fine. They suck it up and get on with it, grateful to not be living in a cupboard... or sofa surfing ... or homeless. Or they move on.
The complaints usually begin with one of
- people who moved to the area after reading a Time Out article about how "cool" the area is
- property developers
- people moving into the new builds built by said property developers
Soho is a bit of an odd one though. Been that way for time.
The whiners are looking for windfall gains. Like people buying houses under airport landing paths.
1) Get it on the cheap cos it's noisy (or otherwise unpleasant in some specific way) there. 2) Use various legalistic/lifestyle pretexts to drive away the source of discomfort. 3) Profit!
I had a neighbour who constantly, vociferously, and once or twice mildly violently, complained about noise. I had no idea why he chose to live there.
I am not sure they are looking for windfall gains. I think a mixture of stupidity and wanting to have everything ("I want to live in a lively city centre with lots of places to go out to in the evening that is quiet when i want to sleep").
Same as those advancing the anti-motorist policies mentioned in the article.
Buy property on the cheap because it’s on a busy road. Campaign to have the road fully/partially blocked to motor traffic, and/or speed limit reduced to something ridiculous (20mph) so motorists end up using other routes to make progress.
If challenged, claim it’s all about the safety of children walking to school. You’d have to be a monster to deny those windfall gains.
Having lived in an area like this, it's not just a matter of money but more that having a relatively local store is an essential service which all of the restaurants in the world don't make up for.
It's Monday morning and you want to buy, I don't know, paperclips, loo roll, a bottle of bleach, etc. You don't have a car because you live in Soho so you can't just load up at the weekend with everything.
I don't really understand how the supermarkets make money in areas like this to be honest, it's always seemed as if just selling up would be more profitable.
It's interesting comparing these against the archetypes in TV Tropes, the language seems to focus on motivations of characters rather than the environment and context.
I go on Quora. I don't really like their digest emails or any of their recent monetization efforts but it's still unparalleled in free high quality writing, especially if you follow the right people. It remains one of the best places to find interesting stories and explanations, and also for exposure to a wide range of human experiences.
I agree with your sentiment but oftentimes small interventions are the only kind possible. And I wouldn't say that something like a pollinator strip is ineffective -- bees and other pollinators are losing habitat, pollinator strips restore them. It may only be one dimension of wildlife but it's a critical one.
But the "true" explanation given above is that the engine pushes the horizontally accelerated air downwards (with respect to its own orientation). Wouldn't that also lead to the conclusion that upside down flight is impossible?
Hello HN! This is a visualization of a paper proving Arrow's Theorem, which states that every electoral system fulfilling a certain set of fairness criteria is susceptible to dictatorship. You can view the original paper here: https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/campuspress.yale.edu/dist/4/17...
* allow people to pay millions to go to college; allow this to fund student aid for other students. Explicitly stop using it to build buildings
Most elite colleges (not the UCs though) offer 100% need-based aid to accepted students and are need blind in the admissions process. This comes directly from the endownment or the rich alumni and donors already.
* stop having all of these overfunded and weirdly inappropriate sports institutions as a core part of academia.
I completely agree.
* stop with massively-inflated grades that allow the rich-but-undercapable kids to graduate with the appearance of successful academics. They can buy their way in but they have to do as well as everybody else after that.
They do have to do as well as everyone else. Grade inflation is a school-wide phenomenon, but GPA in general is a poor indicator of academic performance: all of the prospective med school students at my school are being advised to apply to colleges which practice grade inflation. The grading system at colleges is taken into account by graduate and preprofessional programs.
* ensure that the influx of money from rich kids' applications doesn't go to administrators in any way, as that would incentivize them to over-prioritize these people.
The admissions office is somewhat decoupled from the rest of the institution, and receive fixed salaries -- this problem does not exist.
With the little weird caveat that poor students at top institutions have to work doing things like cleaning the bathrooms of the richer kids as part of their "term-time work expectation" for receiving financial aid.
At Harvard at least, there is a "dorm crew", comprised mostly of poorer students meeting their term-time work requirements that come with finaid, that is responsible for cleaning the in-suite bathrooms.
I think I recall recently reading that some schools might have finally eliminated the requirement (maybe, Yale?) but I'm not sure. It was definitely the case at Harvard as of ~March 2020. (but probably not for this year for obvious reasons!)
Yale has a `student income contribution`, where students on finanical aid are expected to work in some term-time jobs. However these jobs are virtually all administrative (doing paperwork, making calls, etc.), research or teaching assistant-ships. I have not heard of poorer students doing any cleaning.
> The admissions office is somewhat decoupled from the rest of the institution, and receive fixed salaries -- this problem does not exist.
It's not the admissions office that that was targeted at. The donations today go to programs, buildings, etc -- things that involve lots of administrative staff and leaders who are payed executive-level salaries. This should all be going to support students and educators.
The college admissions process is actually moving away from weighing the SAT or ACT as heavily as it has in the past -- for this year's admissions cycle, most schools are going test-optional. The best correlation for American standardized testing scores isn't study habits, but zip code.
I personally don't believe that moving to a system like China's gaokao would solve any of the issues to do with wealth, because the American university system is more than an academic system. It can't simply test for academics (although GPA is the #1 factor considered in admissions across the board), because the strength of American universities is also in community and intellectual diversity. Most applicants to top schools are academically qualified to attend.
I would recommend reading How To Take Smart Notes and really internalizing the information there, I started off way too fast and ended up with too many tiny notes. It takes practice but its definitely worth it.
