hackandthink

Ioannidis paper really impressed me back then. I was surprised when Ioannidis supported shady Covid research. Ideology can catch everyone. Beware. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/what…

OK: PRC blockades Taiwan leads to american navy blockading PRC Nobody wants that.

Important Kong Plugins are not Open-Source. https://docs.konghq.com/gateway/3.0.x/kong-enterprise/ Apache Apisix is more predictable Open Source.…

Does it make sense for PRC to blockade Taiwan and stop TMSC delivering/producing chips? I guess only if PRC is embargoed (US Sanctions TMSC). Maybe next year. https://www.reuters.com&#…

"It doesn't matter whether quantum uncertainty is ontological or epistemological" It matters for a lot of people, they want to know und understand. And maybe somebody comes up with an …

Scott Aaronson's introduction of Quantum Theory as "a certain generalization of probability theory" is very nice and to the point. (Further Reading) These notes of Greg Kuperberg are mo…

(Special seminar in honour of Dana Scott's 90th birthday) Spoiler: "in this locality (simple type theory) it doesn't help" "If you go to polymorphic lambda calculus all parti…

A simple example by Nassim Taleb: https://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/blog/2021/09/07/estimatin... …

Probability Theory without Measure Theory is advancing. Interestingly Tobias Fritz is a Physicist. "A synthetic approach to Markov kernels..." https://arxiv.org/abs/1908…

I've read in Quantum Information Theory papers, that Jaynes misunderstood Bell (he just didn't get it). https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/233203/has-jayne…

Everybody knows Feynman, who knows Jaynes? https://quantumfrontiers.com/2018/12/23/chasing-ed-jayness-g... Jaynes about Probability in Science: https://www.c…

Being curious about the implementation language. Viewing the code is not easy. If you guess Fortran, you might be right: (different ICON Project) "The infrastructure, ICON-Land, for this ICON-A l…

I read "What is life?" ages ago, I found it quite amazing back then. But I didn't know how crazy this guy was. There should be a Wikipedia list: "Most crazy famous physicists"…

This is scary: 108,3 Mio. Follower Nobody should have a megaphone as big as this.

I do not know much about Taiwan, but I am a great admirer of Audrey Tang of Pugs fame. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tang She has some nice political ideas as well.…

Elon seems to be a peacenik, I am surprised. I suggest Nobel Peace Prize for Elon Musk.

"in version 5.0, we migrate Less that antd has long followed and introduce CSS-in-JS instead" This is nice. Less can be really annoying in create-react-app projects.

Every deserter should be welcome.

It's the same in Germany. August Hanning is the german Jeffrey Sachs. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33066745 …

yes https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/115157/what-are-po... …

If you want to know: do Higgs Bosons exist, you can go frequentist or bayesian: Wasserman: p-value is fine for Higgs experiment: https://normaldeviate.wordpress.com/2012/07/1…

Gelman makes a distinction between p-hacking and choosing the test based on your data. p-hacking is confirming your preferred hypothesis - just try again. the latter let's you write a paper. (tes…

A famous Bayesian arguing for frequentist statistics? Gelman tries to steal the concept "Frequentism" from simple minded frequentist statisticians. His argument seems to be: Simple minded fr…

"What speaks in favor of nuclear energy is that it’s climate friendly, has a small land use, and creates power on demand." "What speaks against it is that it’s expensive and ultimately …

Algorithmically random sequence "Martin-Löf's key insight was to use the theory of computation to formally define the notion of a test for randomness." https://en.wikipedia.o…