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May: in a year that was, unfortunately, marked by the success of Jon Haidt’s latest book, Candice Odgers offered a needed sobering and nuanced perspective on the role technology plays in teens’ lives www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The Panic Over Smartphones Doesn’t Help Teens
It may only make things worse.
www.theatlantic.com
December 24, 2024 at 9:31 PM
May: in a year that was, unfortunately, marked by the success of Jon Haidt’s latest book, Candice Odgers offered a needed sobering and nuanced perspective on the role technology plays in teens’ lives www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Émilie du Châtelet, who hypothesized conservation of energy, established kinetic energy as distinct from momentum and proportional to (speed)², and combined work by Newton and Leibniz with her own original ideas in "Institutions de Physique," was born #OTD in 1706. 🧪 👩🔬 ⚛️
Portrait: M. Q. de La Tour
Portrait: M. Q. de La Tour
December 17, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Émilie du Châtelet, who hypothesized conservation of energy, established kinetic energy as distinct from momentum and proportional to (speed)², and combined work by Newton and Leibniz with her own original ideas in "Institutions de Physique," was born #OTD in 1706. 🧪 👩🔬 ⚛️
Portrait: M. Q. de La Tour
Portrait: M. Q. de La Tour
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i am now become think thereforer of am
December 10, 2024 at 6:52 AM
i am now become think thereforer of am
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I love all of these, though I'm not sure I'd use any of them if I were just introducing someone to causal methods. Here are a few I find myself recommending a lot:
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Folks are asking for resources for learning about causal inference.
Here is a comprehensive reading list since no one address all issues —
What is causality?
When is a causal relationship is knowable?
How to infer causal relationships given from noisy and limited data?
Folks are asking for resources for learning about causal inference.
Here is a comprehensive reading list since no one address all issues —
What is causality?
When is a causal relationship is knowable?
How to infer causal relationships given from noisy and limited data?
December 1, 2024 at 4:44 PM
I love all of these, though I'm not sure I'd use any of them if I were just introducing someone to causal methods. Here are a few I find myself recommending a lot:
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I really like old herbarium illustrations. Last year I wrote some software to parse, score, and process the Oxford 400 herbarium dataset to remove the paper background and select the best photos.
If anyone needs a collection of beautiful plant photos...
github.com/borncamp/oxf...
If anyone needs a collection of beautiful plant photos...
github.com/borncamp/oxf...
November 21, 2024 at 6:47 PM
I really like old herbarium illustrations. Last year I wrote some software to parse, score, and process the Oxford 400 herbarium dataset to remove the paper background and select the best photos.
If anyone needs a collection of beautiful plant photos...
github.com/borncamp/oxf...
If anyone needs a collection of beautiful plant photos...
github.com/borncamp/oxf...