Will Lowe
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Will Lowe
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Señor Research Scientist, NPC at the Hertie School in Berlin 🇩🇪 via Princeton, Mannheim, Edinburgh and a bunch of other ivory towers that will probably be billiard balls and decorative boxes by the end of the decade.

Rome Statute appreciator. .. more

Computer science 32%
Political science 28%
Pinned
Philip Dawid, visited by ghost of Christmas counterfactual.
Since it's a tense time of year 🫠

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No idea who else had a unit. Maybe Diogenes, but he just went straight for the barrel.

For the ryle, I have two sources: first, the Philosophical Lexicon, mostly by Daniel Dennett (1987, ed.) who should know because he was supervised by Ryle, and Charlotte Vrijen's 2007 PhD thesis from Groningen.

They may hate it, not because it is taught particularly badly, but because statistics in college is mostly for writing up a report on something else and less often studied as a field of its own. So they're mistaking safety procedures, lab notebook organization & pipetting technique for chemistry.

Obscure fact: a schooner is almost exactly a ryle of beer (named after the philosopher Gilbert Ryle, who was convinced it was the only correct size to serve beer in)

"Send in the measurement units"
a group of stormtroopers standing next to each other
Alt: Imperial units
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Interesting. For this Brit, outside is °F for hot and °C for cold.

(Indoor temperature is just ordinal. In decreasing order: 'stuffy', 'room', 'room, but at home', 'outhouse')

Huh, mine just says "2011 was your year but you didn't have the chart, and now it's gone. Feel free to keep crossing things off though"

The original postcard here, minus colouring and upscale artifacts.

Metadata: "View of Alexanderplatz with the Berolina statue in a south-westerly direction. On the right is the H. Tietz department store." From www.akg-images.de/search/AQAAA...

long grain, mostly against

...I said, about an external student's qualitative methods thesis.

Must be. There's snow, Tilda Swinton, and a child who gets to help drive the train.

That's probably altogether too optimistic for a research design, but it's still the festive perineum so the christmas cheer hasn't run out yet.

With a nice big multiple community-serving school, you could probably learn a fair bit with only that variation. Fixing school also partly fixes the things they catch (as they'll catch them from each other), so the effect estimate, which implicitly averages over bug types, may be a bit less noisy.

If the target were, say, difference in absences when, conditional on them catching something, everyone were to remove their kid (treatment) vs leave them in (control), then given we can't randomize treatment, community variation in removal preference is super helpful as part of the propensity score.

I mean, same!

Early C20 Vienna though. Damn, that is some intellectual firepower just rolling around town.

Yeah, and among other things, patron saint of people who have read a lot of Popper, bought the idea that that's what philosophy of science is, and then come to suspect that the whole thing must therefore also be bogus. Probably because that describes Feyerabend too.

He tried pretty hard to become his own caricature, so evaluation is sometimes difficult. Doubtless a memorable person to take a class from and eminently readable. In particular Against Method can be dipped into.

Marx otoh, not a readable guy, even with Engels, but the Manifesto is clear and short.

F was a wild one – author of Against Method, Farewell to Reason & other inflammatory stuff (and whose biography is equally mad; Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy has a decent entry). Let's say that being against method in principle isn't exactly a plea for more careful nuanced methodological work

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yup, I'm finally on the way back out of the worst in 15 years. Just an endless reminder that intelligent design is a joke.

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Very much this.

But on the upside, after that realization one's view of what can reasonably be asked of a classification scheme is both more accurate and more practical. Roughly from 'what's this?' to 'what would be a sensible thing for this to be? for what purpose and under which circumstances?'

Thanks, yeah, I think I'd sign up to pretty much everything there – except perhaps to note with amusement that reading Feyerabend and taking away "every methodology has its limits" is a bit like reading Marx and concluding that factory owners should consider giving larger Christmas bonuses 😁

probably not the 'situation' you were thinking of, but on my mind as two lots of boilers bust in this two week visit 'home', just none of them theirs 🎉

Best of luck with yours!

Would @dagophile.bsky.social's youtube shorts be useful?

That you are a better child than I who just refuses to turn up if they're going to have me seeing my own breath when I wake up?

Fine, because my principle has always been "no runs? I shuns"

It's possibly worth noting that the first author of Paul and Healy (2018) is afaik part of the current essentialism revival in metaphysics.