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Mathematics, mountains and music. Not necessarily in that order.
Here’s what Solzhenitsyn said about Angela Davis
🎓 Professor Angela Davis, eminent American political activist, philosopher and author, who received an honorary Doctorate in Letters
I just discovered that Grok can run basic and complex statistical tests on data I upload in a CSV file. Statistics software like SAS, SPSS, and JMP are now (or will very soon be) totally obsolete. Wow.
Harvard and MIT Study: AI Models Are Not Ready to Make Scientific Discoveries, by @Alber_RomGar thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/harvard-and-…
Ignoring culture has been a major impediment to understanding the material record from deep time. But there are amazing prospects for changing this situation from Culture Last to Culture First. johnhawks.net/p/how-archaeol…
This is indeed a truly magnificent essay in all senses: exquisitely well written, ferociously well argued, devastatingly persuasive, admirably courageous.
Superb piece by Paul Friesen. Tolerance is a virtue but should not be extended to tolerating violent intolerance. In particular, why does the liberal West give a free pass to the intolerant medieval bigotry of Islamism? Please read the whole article. pfriesen.substack.com/p/the-crescent…
If you thought NPR and PBS were great, you'll love owning TikTok. x.com/charlescwcooke…
Congress: “Ban TikTok if it’s not separated from the Chinese Communist Party.” Supreme Court, 9-0: “Yep, that’s the law.” Trump administration: “Best I can do is illegally delay its prohibition three times, repeatedly pretend a sale is imminent, and then nationalize it.”
Kids need risky play and thrills. Dads have a special role to play. I hope this is not controversial, but dads more than moms seem to enjoy pretending to be a predator trying to catch and eat their own children. I discussed this with Parents Magazine: parents.com/next-gen-winne…
here's a fun challenge for the machine learning folks we all know that the Perceptron will make at most 1/γ² mistakes on data separated with margin γ how would you prove that this is optimal -- in the sense that there does not exist an algorithm guaranteeing o(1/γ²) mistakes?…
Russiagate's Architects Suppressed Doubts to Peddle False Claims realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/…
This captures a very important phenomenon. Hamas has been a remarkably evil, depraved terrorist group at least since the 1990s, when it blew up school buses and the like to undermine the Oslo Accords and present itself to the Palestinian public as a "resistance" alternative /1
In the suicide bombing years it was precisely at the moment of a Palesitnian atrocitiy that the rhetorical demonization of Israel would escalate. It's transparent cognitive dissonance reduction: if Palestinians just did THAT to them, then the Israelis must be even more evil. 1/3
How many holes does a straw have? Topologically, of course, it has 1: it's homeomorphic to a punctured disk. But intuitively it has 2: one at the top and one at the bottom. And this answer lies at the heart of the most rigorous axiomatization of quantum field theory. (1/20)
Marvin Gaye’s voice isolated from music «I heard It through the grapevine», 1967.
No longer has buzz .@Jarvis_best…
Denver is another one that’s really slowed down. And the city no longer has “buzz”.
Kyoto Tachibana, a band composed almost entirely of girls, stands out as one of the best musical ensembles to have visited the United States — admired not only for their exceptional performance of musical pieces but also for their remarkable discipline.
Is the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Alien Technology? by Avi Loeb medium.com/p/is-the-inter…
My magnum opus has arrived. Magnum as in 1249 pages, 800 illustrations, most in color, 75 maps, well over a hundred extracts from primary sources, chronologies and lists of key terms. I wrote Volume 1, from the ancient Greeks to the Renaissance, and my oldest friend in academe,…
NPR and PBS quit Twitter in 2023 after being labeled "government-funded media," arguing the funding they receive is so trivial as to render such a designation unfair and inaccurate. Now, we're told the potential loss of the allegedly trivial funding poses an existential threat.
PBS and NPR stations are on the verge of losing the federal funding that has helped keep them on the air for decades. Here's what will happen if lawmakers zero out the $$$... cnn.com/2025/07/16/med…
You could have gotten a bunch of people at AEI to sign this, @realchrisrufo, me among them. Excellent statement. thefp.com/p/the-presiden…
Great write up
On this day, 1865.07.14, the first ascent of Matterhorn (4478 m) was achieved by mountaineers from Britain, France, and Switzerland; first on top were Michel Croz and Edward Whymper. Read, Four Lives, One Rope: The Day the Matterhorn Took Its Toll. everesttoday.com/four-lives-one…