tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
@kjhealy
Don't give up hope before the peace and literature prizes have been announced! You can get far with just "Nobel laureate" without specifying the subject 👍
@harcel
You cannot highlight everything, if you fund everyone at the same level you're likely to not give useful amounts to each, if you hire all applicants you'll run out of space before you've seated all.
Whatever the amount of resources, we'll always find ambitions that strain them, and prioritisation becomes necessary: again you'll have losers that end up on the outside.
I think fairness here will be down to how the judgment is done, to object to the exclusion itself is to oppose the ambition that drives the selection: in this case the ambition to highlight good work.
@hfalcke
Nobel Prize in physics "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter"
Three laureates, one woman, work from ~1987 to ~2001
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2023/press-release/
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Just seen a new favourite response to AI text. "Why should I bother to read something nobody could be bothered to write?"
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And we are live 🙀
It has only taken 25 years to get to this point, but here we are.
I'll post much more soon, but first I think need a moment.
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Once again we are appealing on behalf of the many victims of Harvard Brain Disease
@Mabande
I think it's more likely the journalist or PR person got carried away talking about a system to predict which of all the dodgy companies importing things via Hamburg is smuggling pedestrian drugs and which is smuggling high value products like fake bags.
At most I suspect it is talking about things like sending notices to countries if gryningspyromanen declares a fatwa against Turkey on twitter and boards a plane to Ankara.
Interpol is after all just a big group chat for national police to coordinate over, the real scary predictive policing are all national efforts that have probably been going on for at least a decade.
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🚨Out in PNAS🚨
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2301491120
"No association between numerical ability and politically motivated reasoning in a large US probability sample"
Know that influential finding that more numerate people are more politically biased?
We did NOT replicate it in a probability sample 2x larger than the original paper.
Across 5 different contentious issues, we found that people with higher numeracy gave more correct answers, regardless of whether the correct answer aligned with their politics.
We did, however, find a main effect of political alignment ( that was robust to controlling for priors) - that is, people were more likely to get the answer right when the correct answer aligned with their politics.
These results raise serious questions about the claim that motivation hijacks reasoning, while nonetheless supporting the existence of some form of motivated processing.
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@hanse_mina The English editing office of Yle has made an article about this in English, too, with all the videos:
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Astronomy story time.
The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy is named Sagittarius A* (often abbreviated Sgr A*, pronounced Sagittarius A-star, yes you say the asterisk). Ever wonder how it got its name?
It's because the compact radio source (later confirmed to be from the black hole) was "exciting". The name is in analogy to excited atoms, which are designated with a *. And for some reason the name stuck.
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003ANS...324..497G/abstract
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If someone posts, "I agree with the science of climate change" ... and then follows it with "but" ... it means, they don't accept the science of climate change and are a climate denier.
🌍🔥 #ClimateBrawl 🔥🌍
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This is the main motorway from Gothenburg to Oslo. Happened overnight. Yes, people drove over the edge into it. Rescue efforts underway.
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The Dutch government on Friday announced that it would stop production from the Groningen gas field at the end of the month.
Gas extraction from the field had been ongoing for 60 years. It is the largest natural gas field in Europe and had at one point accounted for 90% of the gas supplied to Dutch houses.
The Dutch government had previously announced plans to close the field by 2030 due to the risk of low-magnitude earthquakes.
https://www.dw.com/en/netherlands-closes-groningen-gas-field-over-quake-fears/a-66898500
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Unicode 2212 is the minus sign −, and PDG code 2212 is the proton. I find that disturbing.
@Mabande
Här är en låt om lök med en melodi du kanske känner igen från andra sammanhang: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3_21ozbK-Ro
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@Ruth_Mottram @jaztrophysicist
Well, you’re going to laugh (or probably cry) but in Islington it is actually illegal to better insulate your house. (Not joking, the council officially forbids you to insulate houses, including invisible, inside the wall stuff. It’s PURE MADNESS.
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@ian Me too 🤒 Did you know that the microscopic scales on sharks are actually called denticles and made of the same materials as human teeth? Each denticle has a blood-supplied root, a dentine layer, and a hard enamel case. Denticles, like teeth, do not grow with the shark, and are replaced / filled in with new denticles as the sharks age. So, sharks are basically teeth all the way down 🦷
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
