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.
However any conditions for making those arguments sound can rarely be satisfied and means, intentions and subjects weigh much.
January 4, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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.
However any conditions for making those arguments sound can rarely be satisfied and means, intentions and subjects weigh much.
January 1, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Digesting xmas junk food 🧀
December 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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/
sciencebasedmedicine.org/mahajpai/
Dr. John Ioannidis: To Protect Science and Keep it Apolitical, We Must Not Resist MAHA.
Posing as an wise, elder statesman, a neutral guardian of science, Dr. Ioannidis managed to pontificate mightily on COVID from a safe distance without ever being forced to acknowledge the tragic reali
sciencebasedmedicine.org
December 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"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/
sciencebasedmedicine.org/mahajpai/
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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 #PhilSci #ResearchPublishing @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social @rosetrappes.bsky.social
December 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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 #PhilSci #ResearchPublishing @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social @rosetrappes.bsky.social
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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!
algo.inria.fr/flajolet/Pub...
It gets into the complex analysis of generating functions!
algo.inria.fr
December 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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!
algo.inria.fr/flajolet/Pub...
It gets into the complex analysis of generating functions!
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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).
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).
December 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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).
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...
bsky.app/profile/epic...
Me: ugh, Bluesky, so annoying 🙄
*glances at X*
X user: ugh, Bluesky, so annoying 🙄
Me: DON’T YOU DARE INSULT MY FAMILY
*glances at X*
X user: ugh, Bluesky, so annoying 🙄
Me: DON’T YOU DARE INSULT MY FAMILY
December 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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...
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.
December 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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" 🙄
December 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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
December 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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
“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-...
www.quantamagazine.org/how-climate-...
How Climate Scientists Saw the Future Before It Arrived | Quanta Magazine
Over the past 60 years, scientists have largely succeeded in building a computer model of Earth to see what the future holds. One of the most ambitious projects humankind has ever undertaken has now r...
www.quantamagazine.org
December 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM
“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-...
www.quantamagazine.org/how-climate-...
Dalí’s Christmas Cards
December 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Dalí’s Christmas Cards
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🎥 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...
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...
Mazviita Chirimuuta (University of Edinburgh): Apocalyptic Technology: AI and the Limits of Science
YouTube video by LSE Philosophy
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
🎥 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...
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...
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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...
December 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_O...
Greek Operation - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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...
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...
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...
December 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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...
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...
www.quantamagazine.org/cryptographe...
Cryptographers Show That AI Protections Will Always Have Holes | Quanta Magazine
Large language models such as ChatGPT come with filters to keep certain info from getting out. A new mathematical argument shows that systems like this can never be completely safe.
www.quantamagazine.org
December 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Defensive filters put around powerful language models can be subverted by well-studied cryptographic tools
www.quantamagazine.org/cryptographe...
www.quantamagazine.org/cryptographe...
Hero suffers two gunshot wounds in Bondi beach shooting | 7NEWS
YouTube video by 7NEWS Australia
youtu.be
December 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash
You may have read this story
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
You may have read this story
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
December 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash
You may have read this story
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
You may have read this story
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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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.
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.
March 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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.
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... 🙄
December 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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."
December 9, 2025 at 9:19 AM
"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."