wrote an introduction to the statistics wars, ongoing and weirdly fascinating

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@bnielson01 @andy_matuschak @obsdmd I used quartz

Like an idiot, it took me many years to realize the costs of moving around a lot. Wrote a short post about it

@RandallSPQR @norvid_studies hmmm yeah interesting. Was also thinking it might be a general move away from phil and social science to computer science, but maybe it's instead a move to a different kind of philosophy and social science

Nietzsche: Schopenhauer: Marx: Hegel: Kant: Popper: Foucault: Rousseau:

Wallis' account here:

@hristozaykov @SpencrGreenberg yeah interesting. Could see this being an interesting line of research, but you'd need to show that LLMs reason in a similar way to sociopaths, which I think is unlikely (I think they reason differently to most/all humans)

@CharlesCra62772 Our measurements of the speed of light change (ever so slightly as our tech improves). But instead of changing the definition of the speed of light, we change the definition of the meter so that our new measurement of the speed of light is consistent

Mathematicians: Our work has applications to physics! Physicists:

@sashachapin

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nice information dense essay by @campeters4 on Polynesian ancestry, analyzing ancient DNA, and pots