Mark Walker
@amarkwalker.bsky.social
Retired medical microbiologist. Previous interest in biological evolution now largely superseded by interest in the global interplay of language, intelligence and ideas.
I suspect it would be difficult to disprove ascertainment bias.
But maybe your mum was just testing your credulity.
But maybe your mum was just testing your credulity.
November 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I suspect it would be difficult to disprove ascertainment bias.
But maybe your mum was just testing your credulity.
But maybe your mum was just testing your credulity.
Chasing this to a French language website, I am offered the interpretation that there are aspects of human experience that cannot be expressed in words. I buy that, but if that’s what Ludwig meant, why didn’t he say so in plain German. lapausephilo.fr/2023/07/13/c...
« Ce dont on ne peut parler il faut le taire » - Wittgenstein - La Pause Philo
Quoi ? Ce que Wittgenstein essaie de nous dire avec cette citation, c’est qu’il est des choses dont on ne peut rendre compte fidèlement avec les mots. Il parle ici des limites du langage et de son inc...
lapausephilo.fr
November 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Chasing this to a French language website, I am offered the interpretation that there are aspects of human experience that cannot be expressed in words. I buy that, but if that’s what Ludwig meant, why didn’t he say so in plain German. lapausephilo.fr/2023/07/13/c...
Hmmm, not sure who first translated the great man thus and I don’t speak German but I am not sure this is any clearer. So my cap will have the AI generated response:
Nein, ich weiß auch nicht, was es bedeutet.
Nein, ich weiß auch nicht, was es bedeutet.
November 27, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Hmmm, not sure who first translated the great man thus and I don’t speak German but I am not sure this is any clearer. So my cap will have the AI generated response:
Nein, ich weiß auch nicht, was es bedeutet.
Nein, ich weiß auch nicht, was es bedeutet.
Je suis désolé, je me suis trompé parce que DuckDuckGo m’a égaré.
November 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Je suis désolé, je me suis trompé parce que DuckDuckGo m’a égaré.
Une surface doux et horizontale pour l’amour.
November 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Une surface doux et horizontale pour l’amour.
That’s like the advice I gave a trainee 40 years ago. He asked how to get published. I said read the latest publications, spot the errors and write about them. I was delighted to find that he became a professor in record time.
November 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
That’s like the advice I gave a trainee 40 years ago. He asked how to get published. I said read the latest publications, spot the errors and write about them. I was delighted to find that he became a professor in record time.
Reposted by Mark Walker
There’s a system of perverse incentives flooding the field with waste. To paraphrase Upton Sinclair, learning that you cannot simply chuck all the variables you’ve coded from the medical charts into a regression model and create a story about the p-values will only hinder clinicians’ careers.
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 AM
There’s a system of perverse incentives flooding the field with waste. To paraphrase Upton Sinclair, learning that you cannot simply chuck all the variables you’ve coded from the medical charts into a regression model and create a story about the p-values will only hinder clinicians’ careers.