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@ericjacolin.bsky.social
Classical Liberalism, Enlightenment, Rationality, Science
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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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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-...
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...
www.quantamagazine.org
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-...
it takes religion for good people to do evil things. - Steven Weinberg
July 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
it takes religion for good people to do evil things. - Steven Weinberg
I am a software engineer. The answer to "when" is always "two weeks"
June 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I am a software engineer. The answer to "when" is always "two weeks"
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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.
Natural selection at work, exerting selective pressure to make humans better at statistics
June 16, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Natural selection at work, exerting selective pressure to make humans better at statistics