Borysław Paulewicz
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Intro to causal inference for psychologists: https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/pp/article/view/9731/7171 A causal-theoretic definition of measurement invariance (see p. 14): + A new ordinal regression family https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/e7a3x
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Surely, all scientists will now finally agree that being right-wing is a form of extremely dangerous intellectual disability and that people who are leaning to the right need help and should not be laughed at.
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thehandlab.bsky.social
Say what you like about the philosophy of science, but this dude is on fire! 🔥

(Feyerabend 1975/1993, p163)

#MetaScience #ScientificReform #ReplicationCrisis #PhilSci
"Finally, let me repeat that for me the chauvinism of science is a much greater problem than the problem of intellectual pollution. It may even be one of its major causes. Scientists are not content with running their own playpens in accordance with what they regard as the rules of scientific method, they want to universalize these rules, they want them to become part of society at large and they use every means at their disposal - argument, propaganda, pressure tactics, intimidation, lobbying - to achieve their aims. The Chinese Communists recognized the dangers inherent in this chauvinism and they proceeded to remove it. In the process they restored important parts of the intellectual and emotional heritage of the Chinese people and they also improved the practice of medicine. It would be advantage if other governments followed suit." Feyerabend (1975, 1993, p163, appendix to Chapter 15).
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matti.vuorre.com
Against Publishing: universonline.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Preprints are read, shared, and cited, yet still dismissed as incomplete until blessed by a publisher. I argue that the true measure of scholarship lies in open exchange, not in the industry’s gatekeeping of what counts as published.
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jalonso.bsky.social
Markov kernels in Mathlib's probability library. ~ Rémy Degenne. arxiv.org/abs/2510.040... #ITP #LeanProver #Math
boryslaw.bsky.social
This looks like a great read! Out of curiosity, which of the terms "cognitive system," "underwrites," "representation," and "conceptual" is the least ambiguous or vague in your opinion? :-)
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boryslaw.bsky.social
No one knows.
You're welcome.
neddo.bsky.social
Can Only Meat Machines be Conscious? New paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, free download until November 26 with this URL: authors.elsevier.com/a/1luwh4sIRv...
authors.elsevier.com
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paysmaths.bsky.social
"My whole life, my ambition as a mathematician, or rather my joy and my passion, have always been to discover the obvious things." – Alexandre Grothendieck (1928-2014)
#quote #mathematics #math #maths
Photographic portrait of Alexandre Grothendieck, and a quote : "My whole life, my ambition as a mathematician, or rather my joy and my passion, have always been to discover the obvious things."
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ithinkwellhugh.bsky.social
What you think about:
Your thesis - most of the time
Other things - a small amount of time

What your advisor thinks about:
Your thesis - a small amount of time
Other things - most of the time
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estherschindler.bsky.social
I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
boryslaw.bsky.social
... C must consist of *environmental properties*; otherwise, there would be no background conditions and no causality, as G and E *exhaust* the possible causes of X.
boryslaw.bsky.social
... It is important to remember that causal relations are *context dependent*, e.g., striking a match causes fire *in the presence of oxygen*. Back to G and E:
X is innate in the context C iff
p(X|do(G),C) = p(X|do(G),C,E).
Here is the subtle part: ...
boryslaw.bsky.social
... an organism is literally the result of an interaction between G and E. Now does it make sense to ask if a property X is innate or not? If innate := caused by G, and acquired := caused by E, then yes, it makes perfect sense to ask that, with the following caveats: ...
boryslaw.bsky.social
An excellent example of enormous intellectual effort wasted only because people inconsistently use certain words. Here is a simple explanation:
We know that every trait of an organism is determined *jointly* by the genes (G) and the environment (E) bc ...
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jalonso.bsky.social
Category theory illustrated: Natural transformations. ~ Jencel Panic. abuseofnotation.github.io/category-the... #CategoryTheory
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dingdingpeng.the100.ci
Looks like my favorite paper on the age trajectory of happiness is finally out!!! So happy for the authors. Go check it out, it’s great.
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jbau.bsky.social
This whole section really.
Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:
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mamassian.bsky.social
A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.

The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.

From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
An array of 9 purple discs on a blue background. Figure from Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt.
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mollyrookwood.bsky.social
Ted Chiang:
"The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."
boryslaw.bsky.social
Shading body parts with a pencil, especially parts of the sex one is drawn to, is a time well spent. That is a common reason to pursue art, I think :) For what it's worth, I highly recommend Osti's Basic Human Anatomy. I wish I had seen it before learning about the Loomis method, etc.