tales from the end of times
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Are Sabine Hossenfelder's allegations of removing her affiliation with you because of her video critiques true @LMU_MCMP ? https://t.co/vAu58TLsWR
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War is an abomination and peace, the noblest thing. Lest we forget.
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New: Musk's X filed a highly unusual objection in The Onion's bid to buy InfoWars, arguing that X has “superior ownership” of all accounts on X and shouldn't be given to The Onion. A stark reminder you do not own your social media accounts, political move
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"X CORP. OWNS THE X ACCOUNTS."
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@dimitrisbolis @cxdig Brains simply require context, not prediction. Only machine's rely on prediction and the brain-body is anything like a computer.
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For context, here is the open letter: https://t.co/4t27ywftCY The Commissioner's response answers statements we never made, and fails to address our most important concerns about the proposal. Those that lead us to recommend that it is immediately stopped
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The text below is an open letter on the position of scientists and researchers on the EU’s proposed Child Sexual Abuse Regulation. Signatures on 31 July @ 12pm Signatories: 465 Countries: 38 For...
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@MattSingh_ Why do you need to know the basics though, when it's clearly different this time?
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Been elsewhere for a couple of days, because I didn't feel like "plotting graphs and trying in good faith to understand the trends" deserved the kind of abuse below, directed at me and at other good scientists.
He seems nice.
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Over 1,000 retweets for pretending not to know that reporting patterns are distorted over Easter.
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More fun publisher surveillance: Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is *unique for each time a PDF is downloaded*, this is a diff between metadata from two of the same paper. Combined with access timestamps, they can uniquely identify the source of any shared PDFs.
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nature has actually contacted me for comment about accusations that Sci-Hub is a threat, here is my full response / it is clear that academic publishers care about their money, not about security of other people
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The majority of college-educated workers in the U.S. believe that passion is an important factor in career decision making. @cecherin reports on the existential dangers of prioritizing work in this way: https://t.co/xJ5QNty4AH
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Apparently, one comes truly to know what a fractal is only by failing to know over and over again, infinitely many times. We achieve knowledge only in the transfinite limit of our ignorance. All those who think they know at some finite stage are wrong. @mathladyhazel
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“Math Person” is a free verse poem by high school student Julia Schanen. Rather than try to describe it, let me just urge you to read it. It will take you a few minutes, and it will move you.
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"It's ironic that people dismiss mathematics as the antithesis of creativity. They are missing out on an art form older than any book, more profound than any poem, and more abstract than any abstract."
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Join my campaign to stop scientists using the term “statistically significant” and replace it with “statistically detectable”, so people don’t assume it always means *actually* significant
Prof Neil Ferguson of Nervtag says there’s a “statistically significant increased proportion in cases of under 15 year olds of new variant” compared with the old variant. Ferguson says it’s unusual for children not to be affected by respiratory viruses as children spread easily
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"the entire point is that no individual must ever be held responsible. Because, you know, they meant well – and they’ve done such good things in the past!"
Canadian institutional culture is very forgiving of mistakes by senior leaders: we investigate, we "learn lessons", but the mistake-makers themselves are often held harmless. Maybe those lessons would actually stick if we weren't quite so forgiving.
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"Can we really go back to the way things were before? Can we really close our eyes again and pretend we haven't seen what's been right in front of us all along?" Thank you @WordsandGuitar
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"Art gives me hope. Will we take those values, that hope, and use them to imagine a better collective future?"
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