Ben McCarty
@TheBanjoBen
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Mathematician, Woodworker, Banjo Picker
Memphis, TN
Joined March 2013
As a mathematician, I just want to complain about the misuse of the equal sign.
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Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 94? Happy Birthday Roger.
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This week's giveaway is $1,000 value! A sweet Smith & Wesson 686 + .357mag! Please participate by reposting, liking, sharing, and in all ways telling everyone how great you think we are ๐! We will draw again this time next week! We love you all and good luck!
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The Nolan Ryan autographed ball my wife ordered for a birthday present finally arrived!
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Repost to win ๐๐ Enter to win a Wyatt Langford signed baseball! (Must be following)
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In the final #STLCards game of the season, prospect RHP Michael McGreevy allowed just 1 R over a career-high 8.0 IP to improve to 3-0 through his first four MLB appearances. ๐จ REPOST & FOLLOW @CardsPlayerDevfor for a chance to win this signed McGreevy ball! One winner to be
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ChatGPT has frequently been accused to lean toward the political left. A new study tested the political orientation of other popular large language models including GPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok. The results were... somewhat surprising. Or maybe not? https://t.co/eapHrWcdT7
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How I fell out of love with academia (this video was an accidental publication/scheduling blunder๐ฌ๐ฌ but well uh, happy Friday I guess) https://t.co/7eUpgouIkI
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From Princeton math professor Sergiu Klainerman:
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Lifting the Iron Curtain from academia wonโt be easy. Then again, we have no choice.
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Tis true.
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We're now seeing how identitarianism (making group-based identity the primary analytical and moral lens) has damaged academic culture. In a new paper, @profyancey shows how it also damages the mental health of those who embrace it. At @HdxAcademy
https://t.co/nnqVKA9kY6
heterodoxacademy.org
We should be aware that the focus on identity politics most likely has detrimental effects on our students.
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The wrong way for the elite universities to dig themselves out their reputational hole: restrict speech even more. Instead: 1. Clear & coherent free speech policy. 2. Institutional neutrality: Universities are forums, not protagonists. 3. Force prohibited: No more heckler's
Tonight, @Penn President Liz Magill signaled that one of our nation's most prestigious institutions is willing to abandon its commitment to freedom of expression. โFor decades, under multiple Penn presidents and consistent with most universities, Pennโs policies have been guided
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I offer more analysis of how universities betrayed their "telos" (central purpose) of truth in this lecture I gave at Duke in 2016. I predicted that "the conflict between truth and social justice is likely to become unmanageable." At @HdxAcademy
https://t.co/OyKUeMgPX3
heterodoxacademy.org
Aristotle often evaluated a thing with respect to its โtelosโ โ its purpose, end, or goal. What is the telos of university?
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But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); reason itself does not err. -- Kurt Gรถdel
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Not forgotten by some of us, for sure.
Michael Collins passed away on April 28th, 2021. While Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were on the moon, Collins was in the Command Module, orbiting the moon by himself for 28 hours. He is often referred to as the "forgotten" astronaut. While half a billion people on Earth watched
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