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Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · 5d

beautiful photos!

Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · 16d

Yes Izakaya in Shanghai, near Institute of Neuroscience. They had an all-you-can-drink special from the fountain, but I opted for draft Sapporo instead.

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Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · 16d

Sure, China has invented the future, with innovations like high-speed trains and all-electric traffic. But no-one talks about the Jim Beam Soda Fountain! Dispenses everything from straight Bourbon to 3 different cocktails. Beating Kentucky at its own game...

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Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · 16d

If you just say those things, that's free speech, not the destruction of free speech.

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Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · 23d

Human intelligence is overrated and not a useful yardstick for AI - a polemic. markusmeister.com/2025/09/15/w...

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Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · 26d

Also impressively straight stream. Ignoring aerodynamic drag I estimate a nozzle velocity of 10 m/s, and an internal pressure of 1 atm.

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Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · Sep 2

This seems like a complicated and unreliable way to find a published article. Can't you just browse the citations of Erdos's paper and read the abstracts? Maybe that could be done for the other Erdos problems too?

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Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · Aug 30

Only if you're in the right-most lane.

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Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · Aug 8

What a cool public science project! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/w...

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Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · Aug 7

They're probably all from the same slide, we're just missing the connecting pieces of the puzzle :)

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Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · Aug 7

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Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · Jul 30

How about Steve Koonin's "Unsettled", chapters 5-7. Lots of useful graphs from official sources. And a lesson about the statistics of extreme events.

Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · Jul 30

Koonin is in the unusual position of having first-hand experience in all those domains, from physics, to computational modeling, to energy research, to public policy. If you don't have it already, be sure to get the new edition with updates based on the AR6 report.

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Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · Jul 30

Koonin's main complaint is not about current climate studies, or even the IPCC reports, but about how they get distorted by political appointees and media figures into what is told to the public.

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Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · Jul 30

I learned a lot from reading this book on climate science: "Unsettled?" by Steven E. Koonin. Sure, it comes from a contrarian perspective, but it's quantitative, well-sourced, and nuanced in its critique. Lots of useful pointers to go explore the primary literature.

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Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · Jul 24

America: truly the land of infinite opportunity! Where else could a poor immigrant rise from soft-porn model to patron of a premier cultural institution?

Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · Jul 13

Or you might say that shoe screening was always "security theater" and the authorities are finally willing to concede that.

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adamezracohen.bsky.social @adamezracohen.bsky.social · May 28

I wrote about the government's attacks on Harvard. Hope this reaches a few persuadable minds.
prosyn.org/PhWi74r?h=Ky...

Defunding Harvard Hurts America | by Adam Ezra Cohen - Project Syndicate

Adam Ezra Cohen explains the real-world consequences of canceling federal research grants in the name of fighting antisemitism.

prosyn.org

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Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · Jun 7

"0" not an option? The trend suggests that would have been the most popular choice.

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Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · Jun 2

"chocolate" is misspelled in b and f.

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Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · May 26

See The Velominati Rules #4 and #65

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Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · May 25

Why are you happy to get all philosophical (emergence, agency, "I",...) when it comes to function of the brain, but not in talking about its development?

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Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · May 25

Simple rule: Everything Caligula utters is a lie. If it seems to be true on the surface, you just have to look deeper to find the lie. Still working on finding the grift in his support for nuclear energy...

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Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · May 25

Is it reasonable to say you were "trying" to explain this to the SCB? Or isn't it rather that neurons in you brain followed "particular rules by which they interact with and respond to their neighbours". And the result just looked like "trying to achieve a goal"?

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Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · May 21

And here is our own website for the book, including praise from reviewers, a sample chapter, a suggested curriculum, PDF files of all the figures, code to generate the figures, and more. 2/2 www.mathinbio.com

Mathematics in Biology

www.mathinbio.com

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