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Shoulda picked chaos with Ed Miliband

[Reposting oldies from the bird site] The Computational Boundary of a “Self” by @drmichaellevin.bsky.social is one of the most amazingly interesting articles I've read in years Every goddamn sentence is insightful. Masterfully written and deeply thought-provoking.

Musk hasn't succeeded in rooting out wokeness, the entire government is still celebrating North Korean History Month

I think you would have to search long & hard to find a more invertebrate figure than Lindsey Graham today. Zelensky "needs to resign" ... "I have never been more proud of the president. I was very proud of JD Vance standing up for our country" www.foxnews.com/politics/utt...

Any remaining arguments against the rearmament of Europe just evaporated in front of the eyes of every single European head of state this evening.

Drafts of the first chapters of my brms Book: Applied Bayesian Regression Modelling Using R and Stan are online: paulbuerkner.com/software/brm... Check it out and let me know what you think!

For survey methodology folks: what are some ways to measure trade-offs between different options (beyond a discrete choice / conjoint design). What are other tools worth considering?

Bioelectricity as the cognitive glue of morphological architecture - yet another fascinating talk by Michael Levin. Make you hopeful about what's coming in medicine. For example, changes in bioelectric patterns can be used to regenerate limbs in frogs! thoughtforms.life/a-talk-on-bi...

Is this... generalizability?

I'm somewhat wary of articles that say "X place has the secret to good educational outcomes," but this is a good and interesting piece on Defense Department schools. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/u...

Alright, here we are. Let's start with some light content: 65% of U.S. adults say they always or often feel exhausted when thinking about politics: www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

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