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It's time for me to reread Lockhart's lament:

"All this fussing and primping about which “topics” should be taught in what order, or the use of this notation instead of that notation, or which make and model of *calculator* to use, for god’s sake — it’s like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic! Mathematics is *the music of reason*. To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a state of confusion — not because it makes no sense to you, but because you gave it sense and you still don’t understand what your creation is up to; to have a breakthrough idea; to
be frustrated as an artist; to be awed and overwhelmed by an almost painful beauty; to be *alive*, damn it. Remove this from mathematics and you can have all the conferences you like; it won’t
matter. Operate all you want, doctors: *your patient is already dead*."

The whole thing is here:

https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf

"I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably."

Christiaan Huygens died #OTD in 1695. In physics, Huygens made seminal contributions to optics and mechanics, while as an astronomer he studied the rings of Saturn and discovered its largest moon, Titan. As an engineer and inventor, he improved the design of telescopes and invented the pendulum clock. via @wikipedia

Books by Huygens at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5648

#books #science #astronomy

@rob_carlson @bibliolater And I remember David Stockman confessing in his book, in so many words, that supply-side economics was something they were making up as they went along

@bibliolater Everyone. In particular George H.W. Bush, who you may recall used the phrase voodoo economics in 1980 during the run up to the Pennsylvania Primary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaganomics

You need to read this gorgeously written article about meltwater and accelerating ice loss in #Greenland.

Glaciologist Alun Hubbard writes about how meltwater rivers are fracking the ice sheet and deteriorating its internal structure as water pours through. It's both new research and a broad look at the forces speeding up Greenland's ice loss.

The #photos and #video from inside the Greenland ice sheet are pretty mind-blowing.

https://theconversation.com/meltwater-is-hydro-fracking-greenlands-ice-sheet-through-millions-of-hairline-cracks-destabilizing-its-internal-structure-207468

#climatechange #Arctic #science

The surprisingly connected origins of "hesitate" and "adhesive".

#etymology #WordNerd #linguistics #HistoricalLinguistics #language #words #lingcomm #hesitate #adhesive

https://youtube.com/shorts/uRa7RDnEjrU?feature=sharec

Welcome new Mastodonians.
Might suggest a few interesting people to follow
Rob Carlson (author of "Biology is Technology...") @rob_carlson

George Dyson (great for history of science posts) @gdyson

Alberto Cairo (data visualization - infographics) @albertocairo

Anne-Sophie Pereira De Sá (data visualization) @wonderveilleuze

Maggie Koerth (Senior science writer at @FiveThirtyEight ) @maggiek

Vicky Veritas (Geologist, GISMS Earth science, kind person that gets people connected) @vickyveritas

It's time to move beyond using #hybridwork as a term for the combination of on-site and remote work. The new hybrid is about the WHO as well as the WHERE of work: It's the combination of human + AI, and the combination of office and WFH.

My latest #AI column for JSTOR Daily looks at how #remotework set the stage for AI—by making us less attached to our human colleagues, and ready to solve the problems can really help us address.

https://daily.jstor.org/the-new-hybrid-work-is-ai-plus-humans/

Ocean temperatures have been off the charts since mid-March, and the impact is breaking through in disruptive ways around the world, including:
> The Indian Ocean saw an intense, slow-moving cyclone in the Arabian Sea that deprived land of rainfall for weeks.
> In the Atlantic, the weakening trade winds associated with #ElNiño tend to tamp down #hurricane activity, but warm Atlantic temperatures can supercharge those storms.

(via @TheConversationUS)
https://theconversation.com/ocean-heat-is-off-the-charts-heres-what-that-means-for-humans-and-ecosystems-around-the-world-207902

#FossilFriday Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of Sherlock Holmes & The Lost World, died #OTD in 1930. In 1994, Arthurdactylus a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous  of Brazil was named in his honor.

https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2013/06/24/sir-arthur-conan-doyle-and-the-pterosaurs/

Exploring mathematical conjecturing with large language models. ~ Moa Johansson, Nicholas Smallbone. https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/isg/conferences/tmp-proceedings/NeSy2023/paper5.pdf #LLM #GPT #Math #IsabelleHOL

"Fake online users make up as much as 40 percent of all web traffic."

And that was BEFORE the so called "#AIRevolution".

#bots #AI

New post: History of Cartography Project’s Fourth Volume Now Available Online https://www.maproomblog.com/2023/07/history-of-cartography-projects-fourth-volume-now-available-online/

#OpenScience on Mastodon

https://germanrepro.github.io/Mastodon-OpenScience/

#OTD 7 July 1798 As a result of the XYZ Affair, the US Congress rescinds the Treaty of Alliance with France sparking the "Quasi-War".

'Fashion' has the same origin as 'faction'.

Both words stem from Latin 'factiōnem' and were exported by the French.

However, 'fashion' comes from Old Norman 'façon', which had come to mean "manner; form", while 'faction' derives from the written Latin form.

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