Mike Jacovides

The authentic sounds of musical instruments used in ancient times 🎶 #saturdayvibe

📹 Bilimtüel

Still impressive

An example of how impacts of interventions can differ at individual and population levels, and are conditional on other events. Given a car hits you, the helmet helps. But mandating helmets could lower the # of bikes on the road & thus might increase the chance of getting hit in the first place.

Bayesians are like listen up FUCKERS, we SOLVED epistemology. And it turns out you can believe WHATEVER YOU WANT provided it’s not LITERALLY INCONSISTENT and you CHOSE THE RIGHT OPINIONS before LOOKING AT THE EVIDENCE AT ALL

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two different john lockes and one rousseau are totally babe-ified here

people keep telling me that llm hallucinations are decreasing, but I'm slightly concerned about a few of the women philosophers represented here

Map identifying the approximate regions where various Indigenous groups lived in North America in 1776.

The Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...

I suppose it's tedious for me to argue about whether or not something is weird, but it's worth noting that Poincaré would've found it weird. Here's him talking about Hilbert's program, from 1913. Wonder what he would've thought of today's "logic piano" !

No, that was a was a first year seminar on history of philosophy taught by Keith Donnellan. The undergraduate class on Stuart England (taught by Paul Seaver, I think) turned out to be more useful that I had any right to expect.

why’s it called ‘trepanation’ and not ‘skullduggery’ ha ha words, amirite

Five College Classes:

Stuart England
Uncertainty and heuristics
Minds and machines
Real analysis
Ancient Philosophy

"In this essay I will"
- spoilers
- over-confident
- rigid, boring

"In this essay I *might*"
- creates suspense
- nonchalant
- adventurous, fun

midwestjunto For the History of Science

Join us at Purdue for the 2026 Midwest Junto (17-18 April) -- submit your abstracts by 15 Feb: midwestjunto.wordpress.com

Writing something about ML and the Infinite Monkey Theorem and found this which made me laugh.

ages ago, when i had an ongoing beef with a real unhinged neoconfederate, he went to the trouble of finding out where my family cemetery plot is. he drove there & desecrated their graves. he went to all that trouble but didn't bother to find out the bones in some of those old graves were on his side

Thank you for your service

The River Rouge, which sounds fancier than it is

“These findings provide clear evidence that data collected on MTurk simply cannot be trusted.”

JLS session at the Eastern APA The John Locke Society has organized a session on Locke and Tyranny at the upcoming Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association. The meeting will be in Baltimore, from Wednes…

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There's a session on Locke and Tyranny this evening at 7 at the Eastern APA. Holly Brewer will speak on Locke’s experience with tyranny and his reaction to it, Dan Layman on how a American revolutionary used Locke's analysis of tyranny, and
Viacheslav Zahorodniuk on the Soviet reception of Locke

sketch of william whewell

i hope this email finds whewell

Poor handwriting as a mark of status

Photo pointing straight up that shows the moon as an overexposed disk, Jupiter as a bright star nearby, and me off to one side blurred a bit by motion or perhaps I am phase shifting into another dimension. Hard to say.

Jupiter and the Moon just now. [Astronomer for scale]

If grok started spamming twitter with demands that Musk be arrested for producing child porn, that would be something interesting

In three places, the US constitution says that someone has to ‘swear or affirm’ something. The alternative of affirming was for Quakers who didn’t believe in oaths

2011 was a long time ago

Conscientiousness is correlated with conservatism and with not procrastinating. Gerber, A. et al. (2011). The big five
personality traits in the political arena

Actions speak louder than words, especially if the action is playing the tuba.

Reading Madonna by Giorgione

Merry Christmas to all who are looking forward to sitting down with new books (and to everyone else too)!

Frohe Weihnachten to all the deadpan absurdists out there.