A colleague at Texas A&M pointed out that they will now have to censor their own buildings.

Statistical errors and immigration policies (see whole thread) bsky.app/profile/mcle...

Debating even the most heinous ideas seems instinctively appealing. "You need to engage in the battle of ideas to convince those you disagree with or their followers that they're wrong", etc. But, there may not be persuadable! Not legitimising or giving them exposure might be best.

You find most immoral behaviours in professions where someone could easily exploit people in need* *e.g. medicine, law

Horseshoes get validated by evidence once more bsky.app/profile/pzag...

Convex returns via @joho.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/mgpo...

Cold

Beyond weird 😐 www.instagram.com/p/DTEzyFCjcur/

There can be strong utilitarian arguments in support of foreign involvement for overthrowing a bloody dictator and any de-ontological counter arguments can be weak. However any conditions for making those arguments sound can rarely be satisfied and means, intentions and subjects weigh much.

Happy new year everyone bsky.app/profile/cubi...

Nearly there :)

Digesting xmas junk food 🧀

"However, perhaps the real lesson here is for journalists. What is the point in interviewing Dr. Ioannidis when everyone already knows he is going to use bland bromides about data and rigor to shelter and defend the MAHA doctors he’s promoted for years." sciencebasedmedicine.org/mahajpai/

This #OpenAccess article from 'European Journal for Philosophy of Science' conceptualises research environments as research niches, drawing on biological niche concepts to understand scientific practice. bit.ly/3KXFNeE#OpenAccess#PhilSci #ResearchPublishing @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social @rosetrappes.bsky.social

Phillipe Flajolet and Robert Sedgewick's "Analytic Combinatorics" is less joyful than Wilf's book, but it's a great followup, and like Wilf they made it free: algo.inria.fr/flajolet/Pub... It gets into the complex analysis of generating functions!

The formula of the week is: Dobiński's formula! The number of partitions Bₙ of a set of size n is (∑ₖkⁿ/k!)/e, where the sum is over integers k≥0 and e≈2.71828 is Euler's number. You can derive this for yourself if you already know that the EGF for Bₙ is exp(exp(z)-1).

It is annoying though. They haven't bothered fixing long existing bugs nor they have offered basic functionalities (e.g. quotes and pics/gifs on DMs) bsky.app/profile/epic...

The social contract theory is a naive expanation framework of how citizens have come to allocate power to the state. In reality people tolerate existing power structures assuming the cost of abolishing or radically reforming them is greater than the expected benefit of doing so.

Loan shark interest renamed as "membership fee" 🙄

If you come across this study (I noticed it does circulate on the net), most of what you need to know (especially if you are inexperienced with data and complex hypotheses) is

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“What you see is a conscious effort to destroy institutions which are in some ways the foundation of modern society.” www.quantamagazine.org/how-climate-...

Dalí’s Christmas Cards

🎥 Watch the Lakatos Award Lecture 2025 by Mazviita Chirimuuta on "Apocalyptic Technology: #AI and the Limits of #Science" Mazviita Chirimuuta received the award for her book “The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience” www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KkX...

Warm congratulations to Mazviita Chirimuuta, who received the 2025 Lakatos Award for her book "The Brain Abstracted" — "an outstanding example of the kind of work being done at the cutting edge of contemporary philosophy of science." mitpress.mit.edu/978026254804...

88 years since the beginning of the Greek Operation, the repressions against Greeks of the Soviet Union that lasted 13 years en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_O...

Greta against "against rearmament" of Europe Some thought she was the ideal person to trigger climate change awareness. Now we could safely say she managed the exact opposite and don't think was difficult to see it from the very beginning www.instagram.com/reel/DSH1-l9...

Defensive filters put around powerful language models can be subverted by well-studied cryptographic tools www.quantamagazine.org/cryptographe...

Ahmed al Ahmed, what a hero! youtu.be/IUEcLiZI6sI

Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash You may have read this story www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

From top row to bottom, Figure 0 above has Schatten p-norms, Vector p-norms, Function p-norms, CVAR norms, Their duals, OWL norms, Their duals. Figure 1 on the other side of my office has induced p->q matrix norm balls. p goes 1 to inf left to right. q goes 1 to inf bottom to top.

Virtual Populations... 🙄

"During the worst of the days of the hunger crisis in Gaza in the past six months, Hamas deliberately hid literal tons of infant formula and nutritional shakes for children by storing them in clandestine warehouses belonging to the Gaza Ministry of Health."

Live your myth in Greece

Perfect point. Being disgusted of the poor and considering them worthless is even worse than xenophobia bsky.app/profile/miss...

Labour's voters move to Greens yet their stupid leadership believes they will achieve a comeback by mimicking Reform who has managed to attract xenophobic conservative voters. 🙄 www.politico.eu/europe-poll-...

Every text that starts with a maxim is most probably cow shit

Nice tree but my ceiling not tall enough 🙂

"Unfortunately, the basic message of his book was widely misunderstood. Sure, Kuhn was a counterweight to “linearized” narratives of history, but what he really wanted to do was make the notion of progress more nuanced, not discard it altogether. " physicsworld.com/a/thomas-kuh...

Many people (especially in my country of origin) tend to confuse the following: 1) I studied at the university 2) I studied science 3) My degree major is on a scientific field 4) My degree is in natural science 5) I do work in science 6) I am a scientist

If something is not to a great extend boring for most (except the extremely driven few), chances are that is not science, it is storytelling.

"Science of the Total Environment — one of the 15 that publishes the most studies worldwide — has just been expelled from the group of reputable publications by one of the leading evaluation companies, after dozens of irregular articles were discovered." english.elpais.com/science-tech...

Labour has been bad even on the single positive contribution I can give credit to the Torries bsky.app/profile/loui...

Through the lens(es)

"On this day, 29 November, in 1873 Georg Cantor wrote a letter to Richard Dedekind. It contained a question that inaugurated a new mathematical discipline: Set Theory." hartkp.weblog.tudelft.nl/2017/11/29/o...

Poorly generated medical statistics lead to ill informed decisions by insufficiently trained medical professionals and unwary patients.

What are you currently reading? bsky.app/profile/jima...

I hear about great AI innovations, hence there must be a reliable way to very elementary things like texifying equations from pdfs and creating bibtex entries.

Tiramisu could well be Australian en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiramisu