Eric Jacolin 🇫🇷 🇳🇿
@ericjacolin.bsky.social
Classical Liberalism, Enlightenment, Rationality, Science
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Pluto’s ice mountains, frozen plains and layers of atmospheric haze backlit by a distant sun, as seen by the New Horizons spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
November 10, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Pluto’s ice mountains, frozen plains and layers of atmospheric haze backlit by a distant sun, as seen by the New Horizons spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
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November 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
November 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
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Finally got organized and set up my YouTube channel. In just a few weeks, it’s passed 10,000 subscribers—maybe there’s something to this! For now it’s mostly talks and interviews, but it's sparking some exciting plans for more econ-goodness.
Subscribe here👉 www.youtube.com/@JustinWolfers
Subscribe here👉 www.youtube.com/@JustinWolfers
Justin Wolfers
Justin Wolfers is a Professor of Economics and a Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan and a Visiting Professor at the UNSW. He was previously a Visiting Professor at Princeton,…
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October 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Finally got organized and set up my YouTube channel. In just a few weeks, it’s passed 10,000 subscribers—maybe there’s something to this! For now it’s mostly talks and interviews, but it's sparking some exciting plans for more econ-goodness.
Subscribe here👉 www.youtube.com/@JustinWolfers
Subscribe here👉 www.youtube.com/@JustinWolfers
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You thought you knew what the Second Law of thermodynamics is? So did I. Researching this piece for @quantamagazine.bsky.social made me realise that I knew only the classical approximation to it. 🤯
www.quantamagazine.org/a-thermomete...
www.quantamagazine.org/a-thermomete...
A Thermometer for Measuring Quantumness | Quanta Magazine
“Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect quantum entanglement without destroying it.
www.quantamagazine.org
October 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
You thought you knew what the Second Law of thermodynamics is? So did I. Researching this piece for @quantamagazine.bsky.social made me realise that I knew only the classical approximation to it. 🤯
www.quantamagazine.org/a-thermomete...
www.quantamagazine.org/a-thermomete...
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I wish there were an online option to join the "Philosophy of Cosmology for a general audience" for the rest of us...🤔
August 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I wish there were an online option to join the "Philosophy of Cosmology for a general audience" for the rest of us...🤔
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Coming next month.
September 7, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Coming next month.
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Completely coincidental that @quantamagazine.bsky.social just published a nice article by @shalmawegs.bsky.social on the history of Fourier transforms! I did not know that Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier was slated to be guillotined. Narrow escape there.
www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-the-...
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What Is the Fourier Transform? | Quanta Magazine
Amid the chaos of revolutionary France, one man’s mathematical obsession gave way to a calculation that now underpins much of mathematics and physics. The calculation, called the Fourier transform, de...
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September 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Completely coincidental that @quantamagazine.bsky.social just published a nice article by @shalmawegs.bsky.social on the history of Fourier transforms! I did not know that Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier was slated to be guillotined. Narrow escape there.
www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-the-...
www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-the-...
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This is such a good writeup. Thanks @startswithabang.bsky.social . We're living in exciting times as so much more data will come in and we'll go soon from having more theories than data to having more data than theories I hope....
Is dark energy no longer a cosmological constant?
#AskEthan
With CMB, supernova, and large-scale structure data all combined, a "vanilla" ΛCDM cosmology doesn't look right anymore.
Many favor evolving dark energy, but is that the right answer?
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#physics #astro #space
#AskEthan
With CMB, supernova, and large-scale structure data all combined, a "vanilla" ΛCDM cosmology doesn't look right anymore.
Many favor evolving dark energy, but is that the right answer?
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#physics #astro #space
Ask Ethan: Is dark energy no longer a cosmological constant?
The Universe isn't just expanding; the expansion is accelerating. If different methods yield incompatible results, is dark energy evolving?
bigthink.com
August 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This is such a good writeup. Thanks @startswithabang.bsky.social . We're living in exciting times as so much more data will come in and we'll go soon from having more theories than data to having more data than theories I hope....
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“This entire market has been based on people not understanding that these machines don’t actually work like you, imagining that scaling was going to solve all of this, because they don’t really understand the problem. I mean, it’s almost tragic.” - @garymarcus.bsky.social fortune.com/2025/08/24/i...
'It's almost tragic': Bubble or not, the AI backlash is validating one critic's warnings
Gary Marcus told Fortune that AI valuations remind him of Wile E Coyote. "We are off the cliff."
fortune.com
August 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
“This entire market has been based on people not understanding that these machines don’t actually work like you, imagining that scaling was going to solve all of this, because they don’t really understand the problem. I mean, it’s almost tragic.” - @garymarcus.bsky.social fortune.com/2025/08/24/i...
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Thanks to @bigthink.com for giving me an opportunity to babble on about physics and how awesome it is. (TL;DR: extremely awesome.)
bigthink.com/series/full-...
bigthink.com/series/full-...
Sean Carroll explains why physics is both simple and impossible
“I like to say that physics is hard because physics is easy, by which I mean we actually think about physics as students.”
bigthink.com
August 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Thanks to @bigthink.com for giving me an opportunity to babble on about physics and how awesome it is. (TL;DR: extremely awesome.)
bigthink.com/series/full-...
bigthink.com/series/full-...
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Look what just arrived!
July 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Look what just arrived!
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“The American realignment with Russia and against Ukraine and Europe is gathering pace—not merely in rhetoric but in reality. Not for the first time, Trump’s Pentagon has blocked transfers of weapons to Ukraine. The most shocking decision concerns air defense.”
open.substack.com/pub/anneappl...
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The Great Realignment
Also: the Declaration of Independence makes interesting reading this July 4th
open.substack.com
July 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
“The American realignment with Russia and against Ukraine and Europe is gathering pace—not merely in rhetoric but in reality. Not for the first time, Trump’s Pentagon has blocked transfers of weapons to Ukraine. The most shocking decision concerns air defense.”
open.substack.com/pub/anneappl...
open.substack.com/pub/anneappl...
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The key difference being that Putin's oligarchs were threatened behind closed doors rather than on social media.
July 1, 2025 at 5:56 AM
The key difference being that Putin's oligarchs were threatened behind closed doors rather than on social media.
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Akin to the concept of "local optimism, collective pessimism".
Reminds me of Derek Thompson's article from a few years ago:
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Reminds me of Derek Thompson's article from a few years ago:
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
June 30, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Akin to the concept of "local optimism, collective pessimism".
Reminds me of Derek Thompson's article from a few years ago:
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Reminds me of Derek Thompson's article from a few years ago:
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Fascinating post on world models in AI and how the lack of world models impacts LLMs (and the path to AGI)
June 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Fascinating post on world models in AI and how the lack of world models impacts LLMs (and the path to AGI)
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Hello hello #complexity and #emergence people.
I'm getting a complexity+emergence (broadly defined) starter pack going.
I've focused on active accounts that often make original posts (not just reposts) and have at least a few thousand followers. Inclusion is not endorsement.
go.bsky.app/BLuVyWj
I'm getting a complexity+emergence (broadly defined) starter pack going.
I've focused on active accounts that often make original posts (not just reposts) and have at least a few thousand followers. Inclusion is not endorsement.
go.bsky.app/BLuVyWj
June 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Hello hello #complexity and #emergence people.
I'm getting a complexity+emergence (broadly defined) starter pack going.
I've focused on active accounts that often make original posts (not just reposts) and have at least a few thousand followers. Inclusion is not endorsement.
go.bsky.app/BLuVyWj
I'm getting a complexity+emergence (broadly defined) starter pack going.
I've focused on active accounts that often make original posts (not just reposts) and have at least a few thousand followers. Inclusion is not endorsement.
go.bsky.app/BLuVyWj
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Look, Trump calls everyone ‘Abdul’ in his ‘Sir’ stories from the Middle East, so Vance using “Jose” for Latinos is just the way they roll.
June 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Look, Trump calls everyone ‘Abdul’ in his ‘Sir’ stories from the Middle East, so Vance using “Jose” for Latinos is just the way they roll.
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June 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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That's like an option price factoring in a real likelihood that it won't take place at all.
June 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
That's like an option price factoring in a real likelihood that it won't take place at all.
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Languedoc Roussillon would like to educate you on all the different colours of rosé
June 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Languedoc Roussillon would like to educate you on all the different colours of rosé
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"Whatever the nature of the crisis, it forces the revolutionaries to make a choice. Give up—or radicalize. Find compromises—or polarize society further. Slow down—or use violence"
The logic of revolution is always the same
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The logic of revolution is always the same
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
This Is What Trump Does When His Revolution Sputters
His military deployment in Los Angeles follows a long, disturbing tradition.
www.theatlantic.com
June 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
"Whatever the nature of the crisis, it forces the revolutionaries to make a choice. Give up—or radicalize. Find compromises—or polarize society further. Slow down—or use violence"
The logic of revolution is always the same
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The logic of revolution is always the same
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Move the World Cup back to Qatar again! Overall more inviting (120F temps and all) than US in the New ICE Age.
But better idea: Move all the games to already planned co-hosts Mexico and Canada. Less random fear for visitors from the rest of the world.
But better idea: Move all the games to already planned co-hosts Mexico and Canada. Less random fear for visitors from the rest of the world.
DHS confirmed that ICE and CBP agents will be on site “for security” at the start of the FIFA Club World Cup at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens. ICE also reminded non-U.S. citizens to carry proof of legal status while attending the event.
June 12, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Move the World Cup back to Qatar again! Overall more inviting (120F temps and all) than US in the New ICE Age.
But better idea: Move all the games to already planned co-hosts Mexico and Canada. Less random fear for visitors from the rest of the world.
But better idea: Move all the games to already planned co-hosts Mexico and Canada. Less random fear for visitors from the rest of the world.