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"Vitat in vitro sed non evadit in vivo." I stay on X for the arguments.

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beowulf888@beowulf888·
My end-of-year pathogen summary for 2025. 🧵 x.com/beowulf888/sta… @vickersty @simon_faire @ScoobyShakespe1 @soaresvxz @VGrubsky @RussLyon7 @kavs86 @Michael22504424 @_32768 @DrNeilStone @aiecon23 @OAesthetics69
beowulf888@beowulf888

EoY25-1/ My end of year 2025 pathogen summary. For those who follow me, sorry I haven’t been keeping this up. COVID-19 doesn't interest me as much as it did. 🤷‍♀️ I may post new updates if we get a nasty pathogen flare-up, though. The winter COVID wave began around Thanksgiving.

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beowulf888@beowulf888·
@gmcrews @BigBrainPhiloso NB: Although I think Einstein was more of a Kantian when it came to causality, he did tip his hat to David Hume for forcing him to think skeptically about the questions involved in Special Relativity. The leading physicists of the early 20th were all deeply grounded in philosophy
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beowulf888@beowulf888·
@gmcrews @BigBrainPhiloso Einstein credited Hume’s skeptical epistemological stance towards cause and effect with his refusal to treat simultaneity as self-evident, and he said that Hume's arguments were integral to his development of Special Relativity. Just sayin...
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Big Brain Philosophy
Big Brain Philosophy@BigBrainPhiloso·
Hume's most dangerous idea: cause and effect is an illusion. We assume it. We built civilisation on it. But we've never actually seen it.
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Enter your real name 😼@vickersty·
It seems the CDC Covid Data Tracker has been replaced this week with an unholy useless mess. We'll see if any of this data is extractable or not... or it might just be time to hang this up.
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beowulf888@beowulf888·
@OneSeaElephant @StuartHameroff But lots of maths have no use in Physics. Just sayin... Worse yet, I can think of an example where a forty-year focus on the math used to support a certain theory failed to yield any experimental validation, let alone a way to falsify it.
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Unidentified Animal
Unidentified Animal@OneSeaElephant·
@StuartHameroff To steelman their approach, hard math usually is created without application. It is later found that it sometimes is indeed very useful - usually in physics.
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Stuart Hameroff
Stuart Hameroff@StuartHameroff·
It wasn’t me who called IIT pseudoscience, it was a letter signed by 125 neuroscientists who wondered. like me, what a theory of pure information not connected to biology was doing in the brain. At the 2014 Tucson consciousness Ned Block said to Giulio Tononi: ‘ Giulio you have a beautiful theory! I just don’t know what it is a theory OF!’ What measurable causal results have IIT or GNW produced?
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You can call other models “pseudoscience” all you want, but they actually produce measurable, causal results. Yours still doesn’t. No in-vivo signal. No causal manipulation. No closed loop from mechanism → brain → loss of consciousness. Just repeated claims and modeling. If Orch-OR really had the explanatory power you say it does, it wouldn’t need constant defending it would already show up clearly in the data. It doesn’t.

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Jay in Kyiv@JayinKyiv·
Long unofficially banned from appearing on state TV, incoming Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar appears on a channel to which he was previously not allowed only to announce an end of "North Korean" style Orban media monopoly.
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beowulf888@beowulf888·
@ShinNoNoir @flyfish29 @tomloveless99 @howie_hua Gee. I've been doing this so many years now that I answered w/o thinking. However, I don't remember being taught math with bizarre word problems. We were given sums, etc. to do on worksheets. The trouble w/ word problems is that reading comprehension can interfere with the math.
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Howie Hua
Howie Hua@howie_hua·
What is this math homework asking for?
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beowulf888@beowulf888·
@DeivonDrago 6/ Anyway, philosophy was problem-solving long before formal science came along. I suppose they don't teach this stuff to STEMmies anymore. Sad. /
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beowulf888@beowulf888·
@DeivonDrago 5/ Heck, all of modern CS depends on Boole’s analytical logic. And we can trace modern type theory used in programming languages and proof assistance back to Russell’s Paradox (set theory). And IIRC Turing credited Wittgenstein for his understanding of symbol manipulation.
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Deivon Drago
Deivon Drago@DeivonDrago·
Philosophy doesn’t solve problems. (Not sure what it would even mean for philosophy to solve a problem.) Human endeavor and resourcefulness, aided by science and technology, solves problems.
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beowulf888@beowulf888·
@flyfish29 @tomloveless99 @howie_hua My brain hurts! This seems to make addition needlessly complex. For 98+7, what's so hard about 8+7=15? Carry the one from the tens column and add it to the 9 in the tens column. Answer: 105.
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John Thomas
John Thomas@flyfish29·
@tomloveless99 @howie_hua For the very reason he gave in the video if you watched it to the end. The S you describe doesn't already "know" 98+7 or 498+7, but with make a 10 strategy, they can solve many problems easier and faster. Knowing the associative property helps build stronger mathematicians!
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Kevin Whalen
Kevin Whalen@DetWha·
I know exactly what hubris means and it's the Pope who's displaying it. Him and the Popes immediately before him are part of the reason I'm an ex-Catholic. They abandoned their spiritual mission for a wordly one that damaged the people and institutions they claimed to represent. Then they had the hubristic gall to dress it all up in religious language only tenuously connected to the Bible. The pope is out of line here and playing way outside his lane
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The New Englander
The New Englander@RBerestka·
Truly remarkable how many leftists with no use for the Catholic Church are cheering on the Pope when criticizes Trump. Or spout off despite their thin education on theology. Or cheer the Pope for using theology as a basis for attacking US policy decisions. The hubris is amazing.
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Jennifer Lawrence
Jennifer Lawrence@JenLawrence21·
If you are outraged at Trumps photo and not outraged at this, then you might want to do some soul searching. Especially if you don’t see anything wrong with this.
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beowulf888@beowulf888·
@Metamorph0515 @JayinKyiv If genuine invitations existed and were declined for no reason, the (former) state media could easily document it publicly, especially amid the controversy. Put up or shut up.
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Metamorphosis@Metamorph0515·
@JayinKyiv Simply not true, he was invited plenty of time and always refused, being a liar is not a virtue
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AlphaFox@alphafox·
Imagine going to a Taylor Swift concert and seeing this: 🤢
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beowulf888@beowulf888·
@CamelliaQuartz @Math_files The lesson is not about set theory, and the teacher is giving the student the false impression that the commutative property of multiplication doesn't exist. The teacher's answer is a grammatical trick. Not real math.
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Math Files@Math_files·
Teachers who are incapable of controlling their emotions towards children they're meant to be teaching shouldn't be teachers.
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beowulf888@beowulf888·
@preshtalwalkar Hmmm. x*4=x+x+x+x, but also 4*x=x+x+x+x. Therefore x*4=4*x. Now substitute 3 for x...
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Presh Talwalkar from MindYourDecisions@preshtalwalkar·
The teacher is 100% correct here. This is based on thousands of years of tradition going back to Euclid and Euler. The prior question indicates the lesson was to follow directions of a specific definition of multiplication of natural numbers. youtube.com/watch?v=6XoMlQ…
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Teachers who are incapable of controlling their emotions towards children they're meant to be teaching shouldn't be teachers.

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