Science and Its Philosophy From a Marxist Perspective
By Will Langford The report of the CHA Task Force on the Future of the History PhD in Canada is now available (in English and in French). This is the second in a series of posts by Task Force members, offering their perspectives on selected themes from the report. Activehistory.ca encourages readers to join in…
Time to Completion of History PhDs in Canada
Poland’s right-wing ruling party is using the war reparations issue to undermine Germany’s moral narrative that it has come to terms with its Nazi past, and attack the liberal-centrist opposition for allegedly colluding with foreign powers to undermine the Polish government ahead of next year’s parliamentary election.
Why has the Polish government raised the German war reparations issue?
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WHAT BANKING INCOME IN THE USA TELLS US ABOUT THE STATE OF THE US ECONOMY.
Detector OPERA
La noticia ya ha sido presentada en la mayoría de los medios pero obviamente teníamos que hacer eco también en nuestro blog. El motivo por el cual este artículo no apareció antes es simplemente porque quise esperar al seminario que hubo ayer en el CERN y así poder entregar información más confiable. Ahora el anuncio es oficial: el experimento llamado OPERA ha observado neutrinos que parecen moverse más rápido que la luz. Como científico, llevo varios años especializándome en el estudio de las posibles violaciones a la relatividad en neutrinos, motivo por el cual este anuncio tiene gran importancia para mí. Por el mismo motivo me atrevo a hablar del tema sin dejar de manifestar mi emoción si este resultado llega a confirmarse, sin embargo hay que ser cautelosos con el resultados así como también con las interpretaciones. Para comprender la importancia de este anuncio…
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This is a spinoff from the previous post. In that post, we remarked that whenever one receives a new piece of information , the prior odds ratio between an alternative hypothesis and a null hypothesis is updated to a posterior odds ratio , which can be computed via Bayes’ theorem by the formula where is […]
A Bayesian probability worksheet
An unusual lottery result made the news recently: on October 1, 2022, the PCSO Grand Lotto in the Philippines, which draws six numbers from to at random, managed to draw the numbers (though the balls were actually drawn in the order ). In other words, they drew exactly six multiples of nine from to . […]
What are the odds?
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When the 2022 NBA draft happened almost a month ago, I thought to myself: do players picked earlier in the draft (i.e. higher-ranked) actually end up having better/longer careers?
If data wasn’t an issue, the way I would do it would be to look at players chosen in the draft lottery (top 60 picks) in the past 10/20 years. For each player, I would look at how many years he played in the NBA and see if there was a correlation between that and draft position. (Here, number of years in the NBA is a proxy for how successful an NBA career is. There are other possible ways to define success, e.g. minutes played, points scored.)
Unfortunately data is an issue, so I ended up looking at a related question: What are the draft positions of players currently in the NBA? If players picked earlier in the draft are more…
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This excellent short summary of Karl Marx’s outlook and lasting influence was published by Newshub 5 July 2022. It was written by Christopher Pollard for The Conversation In 1845, Karl Marx declared: “philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it”. Change it he did. Political movements representing masses of […]
Karl Marx’s philosophy detailed – how his work continues to influence
Interesante artículo, sin embargo, debe tenerse cuidado de no caer en la tentación del reduccionismo. Tentación a la que parecen sucumbir los investigadores cuando señalan que “la conciencia debe investigarse con las mismas herramientas matemáticas que los físicos usan para otros fenómenos relativistas conocidos”. A pesar de ello, “Ella no usa órganos sensoriales, mide sus representaciones neuronales directamente por la interacción entre una parte de su cerebro con otras partes. Mide sus representaciones neuronales según sus relaciones con otras representaciones neuronales.” es un notable hallazgo en términos de la relación del todo y las partes y en términos de que lo fundamental en los fenómenos son sus relaciones internas. Esto refuerza diversos principios del Materialismo Dialéctico.
Source: Bar-Ilan University How do 1.4 kg of brain tissue create thoughts, feelings, mental images, and an inner world? The ability of the brain to create consciousness has baffled some for millennia. The mystery of consciousness lies in the fact that each of us has subjectivity, something that is like to sense, feel and think. […]
A New Theory in Physics Claims to Solve the Mystery of Consciousness
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The announcement that US President’s Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has got the backing of pro-business, coal-mining owner Democratic Senator Manchin has been greeted with a wave of optimism that the US target of cutting carbon emissions in half before the end of this decade (or 40% compared with 2005 levels), can be met. “This bill will really turbocharge that transition to clean energy, it will transform markets where already solar PV, wind and batteries are in many cases cheaper than incumbent fossil fuels,” said Anand Gopal, executive director of policy at Energy Innovation, an open source research body. “Increasingly I’m more optimistic that keeping the temperature rise under 2C (3.6F) is more reachable. 1.5C is a stretch goal at this point.”
The bill will cut US emissions by between 31% and 44% below 2005 levels by 2030, according to Rhodium Group, a non-partisan research firm. A separate…
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