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ultracrepidarian
ultracrepidarian: a person who criticizes, judges, or gives advice outside the area of his or her expertise.
By Paul Hubbard. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Wildfire intensity scale Years ago, during the 2016 Fort McMurry wildfire, I read an article that I should have bookmarked that discussed wildfire in physics terms – watts per square meter. Above some threshold, you literally and actually …
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Xena
Mathematicians learning Lean by doing.
By Kevin Buzzard. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician. So the big news this week is that o3, OpenAI’s new language model, got 25% on FrontierMath. Let’s start by explaining what this means. What is o3? What is FrontierMath? A language model, as probably …
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Quomodocumque
Math, Madison, food, the Orioles, books, my kids.
By Jordan S. Ellenberg. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Surprises of Mexico We recently got back from a family trip to Mexico, a country I’d almost never been to (a couple of childhood day trips to Nogales, a walk across the border into Juárez in 1999, a …
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Persiflage
Galois Representations and more!
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The Poincaré homology sphere This illusion (from the Chicago museum of illusions, and duplicated, I believe, in other similar museums in other cities) “almost” appears to give a tiling of \(\mathbf{R}^3\) by regular dodecahedra, which for a number of …
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A Sunday of Liberty
But we want to be the poets of our life—first of all in the smallest, most everyday matters.
By Damian. More infoUpdated
When Accountants Attack Thank goodness this book exists. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been attacked at a suburban backyard barbecue by some crazed IT guy with a wrench and thought, “Damn, if only I had …
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Anecdotal Evidence
A blog about the intersection of books and life.
By Patrick Kurt. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
'A Great or Wonderful Thing' “Too greedy of Magnalities, we are apt to make but favourable experiments concerning welcome Truths.” Sir Thomas Browne in Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646), also known as Vulgar Errors, dismisses such notions as the existence of unicorns …
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Dr. Roseanne Chambers – Blog
Geologist, geographer and writer in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Two Novel Nature-Based Water Systems in the Andes In the Andes Mountains today, water managers are using both ancient and modern approaches to improve supplies of this vital resource. Novel methods, including those based on Indigenous knowledge, are needed to help meet the …
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Natural History Journal
Notes from a California Naturalist.
By Siera Nystrom. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Battlefield Birding Last July, my history professor husband and I took a trip to Mississippi, Tennessee and Georgia to visit a selection of Civil War battlefields that comprise the "western theater" of that great war. From our …
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Earth Science Picture of the Day - a service of USRA
Highlights the diverse processes and phenomena which shape our planet and our lives. EPOD will collect and archive photos, imagery, graphics, and artwork with short explanatory captions and links exemplifying features within the Earth system.
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Sagitta and Stars and Stars and Stars Photographer: Greg ParkerSummary Author: Greg Parker In early October of 2024, two consecutive clear, moonless nights allowed me to capture the image at top, the entire constellation of Sagitta. The grouping of four arrow-shaped stars …
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Coppola Comment
Finance, economics and music.
By Frances Coppola. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
The myths that refuse to die In my last post, I debunked the myth of the "reserve pool" of British workers. In this post, I discuss three more labour force myths that refuse to die: the myth of the "tide of …
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Conversable Economist
In Hume’s spirit, I will attempt to serve as an ambassador from my world of economics, and help in “finding topics of conversation fit for the entertainment of rational creatures.”.
By Timothy Taylor. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Will AI Bring an “Intention Economy”? Back in the 1971, Herbert Simon (Nobel ’78) published an essay on the “attention economy.” It famously noted that “a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” He offered insights about how economic organizations …
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Strong Language
A sweary blog about swearing.
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The 10th Annual Tucker Awards for Excellence in Swearing How in the absolute fuck can this be the tenth installment of the annual Tucker Awards recognizing excellence in swearing? Somehow, it’s true: feast your eyes on the nine previous installments from ’15, ’16, ’17, …
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PogoWasRight.org: Privacy News & Issues
My attempt to increase awareness of privacy news and issues.
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Google, YouTube Users Advance Privacy Suit Over Children’s Data Christopher Brown reports: Google LLC and YouTube LLC must face some claims of a long-running proposed class action alleging they collected information concerning children who watched videos on their channels in violation of state privacy …
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LostFocus
A weblog by Dominik Schwind.
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I started to write notes by hand on paper and oh boy, did my handwriting… I started to write notes by hand on paper and oh boy, did my handwriting get bad. Reply by email
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roytang.net
Roy Tang's blog. Programmer, engineer, scientist, critic, gamer, dreamer, and kid-at-heart. Randomly amazed.
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Weeknotes 2025-01-12 This week managed to be a bit better than the last one, though I am still going to the hospital on a daily basis (still 100% attendance so far for 2025). The situation has stabilized …