MicMars

Mathematics, philosophy, literature, business credit risk...'you and I are human beings; mostpeople are snobs' - ee cummings

[HomegrownJoan @JoanElizShields]

This is what happens when someone writes about a topic they know little about.

Long Covid is not one diagnosis.
It is an umbrella term for many post-Covid-19 infections lasting > three months.
We have many umbrella dxs :
Dementia, STDs, URIs, Cardio vascular diseases.
@WIRED editor screwed up by letting this slob get his illiterate take on this get published

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

For Aristotle, the banausos is not just physically deformed by his profession, but politically and ethically stunted: specialization makes him less a complete man than a TOOL of his occupation.
Politics, book VII:
"And any occupation, art, or science, which makes the body or soul or mind of the freeman less fit for the practice or exercise of virtue, is vulgar; wherefore we call those arts vulgar which tend to DEFORM the body, and likewise all paid employments, for they absorb and degrade the mind."

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

As with fat tails Llms are frequency machines that fail to extrapolate outside the sample set. What they know is the VISIBLE.

Almost as bad as economists, almost worse than psychologists.

[Sean McClure @sean_a_mcclure]

@Tyler_A_Harper This is a ridiculously uneducated take.

This is absolutely not how LLMs work. Blatant misrepresentation and extreme fallacy isn’t doing this “debate” any good, and sure isn’t helping the general public understand the topic.

[SAMUEL GARCIA @samuelxgarcia]

@hugowiz @MicMars @GrantSSC @Extrachelle @Mojonera258 @gaffneycathal @otrasenda_AC @exergiovanni Good morning,
It was Brikka time too at home

[Ugo Mendes Donelli @hugowiz]

Gimoka Speciale Bar, freshly ground beans, induction, New Brikka, strong cup

@micmars
@GrantSSC
@Extrachelle
@Mojonera258
@gaffneycathal
@otrasenda_AC
@exergiovanni
@samuelxgarcia

[James Marsh @JamesMarsh79]

❤️🙏

[Ernest Boehm plays Kawai & Steinway Pianos 🎹 @ErnestBoehm]

Sorry to hear, our condolences, Ernest and Wei

[Sean McClure @sean_a_mcclure]

Any time you find an advantage in an activity, and choose to supercharge it only along that one dimension, it is going to cause problems.

There will never be an exception to this rule.

It is a basic fact of natural systems.

When you look at any object or behavior in a natural system you are never looking at an isolated thing. You are looking at a surface-level manifestation of countless latent balances and tradeoffs.

If you max it out on that one conspicuous dimension, it is going to cost the rest of the system.

Every time.

[Primers Of Raphael Douady @DouadyPrimers]

It’s going well!

USA, Canada, Germany, France, Mexico, France in the classroom.

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North and South America, Europe online!

[Saad Maan. سعد معن 🇲🇦 @SaadMaan15]

I call Bullshit

He won't implement any of that if he wins

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

By favoring his country of birth, a politician with dual citizenship may harm not only his host country but also other countries whose interests are subordinated to those of his own nation of origin.

[MicMars @MicMars]

@sebs_tweets @DrMichaelBonner A well-carpentered anecdote about a lovingly-cobbled soul.

He’ll be sorely missed

🎩🙏

[Sebastian David Lees @sebs_tweets]

@DrMichaelBonner Reminds me of when the late, great Sebastian Horsley was denied entry to the USA on the grounds of "moral turpitude".

When asked why he lied about having no convictions, he told the customs officer "I thought you were referring to moral convictions" 😂

[Joseph Miller @dysangelistes]

These are some of the worst days yet, but I am down for surgery on Wednesday. Maybe that will give some relief.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Dense pocket book w/a map of math in great detail. Great for travel & mathematical flaneuring.
French trans. from German. No English equiv.

[Rory Sutherland @rorysutherland]

Excellent book so far......

Why We Think What We Think: The Unexpected Origins of Our Deepest Beliefs

https://t.co/i8AGWii3iN #Amazon via @Amazon

[Ernest Boehm plays Kawai & Steinway Pianos 🎹 @ErnestBoehm]

@lilchiva @sebs_tweets @SebSteele0 @NahanniFinanci1 @EBasilion @Porkchop_EXP @MicMars @MatiosTV
It still needs work it is better than this performance, the piano is amazing by the way.

Philip Glass
Etude 5

[Ugo Mendes Donelli @hugowiz]

Dervio, Lake Como 🇮🇹

[Mehdi @Mehdi_IR_DC]

Its useless to have convo based on REASON. only thing that works is to say: OK, if u like ur imaginary white idea of the “west”, stop whining n kick all these immigrants out, yalla, organize your ppl and kick out the non-whites, OR, try to understand the new order of things.