Aaron

When Kurzweil was busy inventing the mythos of the Singularity, did he even one stop to think, "Hmm, maybe I should try fitting a sigmoidal instead of an exponential, as is common practice when resources are limited?"

#Kurzweil
#singularity
#posthuman
#posthumanism
#posthumanist
#assumptions

jan
The assumption is that there are certain physical laws (‘equations’) that all matter must obey, epitomized in the Newtonian paradigm. In sum, this is an ‘upward’ theory of causation. … What is causing scientists to consider that one must go beyond analysis is their dawning realization that upward causality contains no explanation for why complexity increases. Note that “complex forms emerge” is not an answer: emergence is a descriptive concept, not an explanatory one.
—Aloisius H. Louie, More Than Life Itself: A Synthetic Continuation in Relational Biology
#science #assumptions #paradigms #complexity #emergence
jan
”Science floats on philosophical assumptions about observation, measurement, mathematics, and truth. Ignoring that substructure is itself anti-scientific. Criticism is part of rigorous inquiry.”
—Matthew Segall, Prehensions, Propositions, and the Cosmological Commons
#science #philosophy #assumptions
jan
”[Friedrich] Schelling—and I—find it implausible that nature was ever entirely mindless. Instead, nature must have been seeded with proto-mentality from the outset… That realization forces us to revise our picture of nature before scientific investigation even begins.”
—Matthew Segall, Prehensions, Propositions, and the Cosmological Commons
#assumptions #mind #matter
Dr Mircea Zloteanu ☀️ 🌊🌴

#statstab #260 Effect size measures in a two-independent-samples case with nonnormal and nonhomogeneous data

Thoughts: "A_w and d_r were generally robust to these violations"

#robust #effectsize #ttest #2groups #metaanalysis #assumptions #ttest #cohend

link.springer.com/article/10.3

#psychology #statistics #research #abtesting

Likely Jan Lukas

My elder was disgusted with his behaviour.

Besides not wanting to be preached at when shopping, they were deeply offended that a complete stranger would be making assumptions about their religious beliefs.

I concur: there was no religious imagery on my elder, but then there was none on the antimasker either.

To assume anyone involved was of ANY particular belief was obviously foolish.

6/x

#elders
#religion
#faith
#assumptions
#ReligiousAggression
#antimasker

Fubaroque

@stuartmarks Good idea to ask then. I assumed you already knew what he said. #assumptions🤣

May I suggest picking up a copy of Effective Java then? There are PDF’s floating around on the web. Just the kind of thing that will get you to the “next level” when you start to have questions like that. (In fact it is one of those books that I like to reread occasionally… and learn some more.)

Dec 28, 2024, 22:40 · · · 0 · 0
SwindlerOfInsanity

I've noticed something, news #media is manipulative. Many headlines and articles from mainstream news outlets are written in a deliberately provocative way that reinforces unfounded #biases or #assumptions. #polarization weakens the social bonds that hold communities together. focusing on what divides people you weaken trust. This feels like a deliberate and systematic attack intended to break communities apart and sow distrust. and it seems to be happening independent of political orientation.

Dr Mircea Zloteanu ☀️ 🌊🌴

#statstab #242 A Guide to Robust Statistical Methods

Thoughts: Great book and R package. But my question is: if you use robust stats what is your hypothesis and estimand? 🤔

#robust #stats #statistics #r #outliers #assumptions

link.springer.com/book/10.1007