Interesting link from Sam (at Elizaphanian) by Judith Curry “Climate Change – no consensus on consensus“. The issue is to escape the denial, and simply recognize the big science decisions – to agree or criticize with “findings” are not scientific, they are political, tactical, strategic, etc … value-based. The key IPCC consensus finding from its [...]
Entries from October 2012
Science Body Politic
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October 30, 2012 at 11:03pm
by Psybertron
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17 days no post
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October 28, 2012 at 7:38pm
by Psybertron
That’s some hiatus, due mainly to travel and work pressures. New York, San Diego, Washington, now Brisbane and next Perth … Out on the streets, in a bar, seeing a band on only one night in the whole – PiL at the Hammerstein NYC. Been reading a lot in travel time – though not as [...]
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Reinventing the Sacred
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October 11, 2012 at 9:21am
by Psybertron
Mentioned earlier I was reading Stuart Kauffman, and was impressed by his extending the story of life beyond the ubiquitous focus on DNA and genes. After that it’s been a bit of a roller-coaster, as this biologist covers psychology, philosophy and fundamental physics in his quest of Reinventing the Sacred – a common fault I [...]
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Primitive
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October 8, 2012 at 1:22pm
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In his own words, a very crude and primitive thesis from Steven Pinker. Maybe OK for purely “scientific” prose, but woeful on classic communication – rhetoric reduced to rules – Objective truth, you know, your reader doesn’t. Wonder what Pirsig would make of that? (Strange critique of Strunk & White. Good rules – simple heuristics [...]
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Honky Tonk Woman
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October 5, 2012 at 9:00am
by Psybertron
Wonderful story of people and place connections … the place being 82A Railton Road, Brixton. Made my day. Hat tip to BifRiv.
Free Communication is Overrated
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October 4, 2012 at 8:26am
by Psybertron
Why do we have news ? So that people promoting their stories can justify funds and resources for their activities that generate the stories.
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Day Job Meets Philosophy
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October 3, 2012 at 12:38pm
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Interesting piece by two Russian colleagues Anatoly Levenchuk and Victor Agroskin interviewed for “Studia Humana” on Libertarian philosophy and activity in Russia. ISO15926, the core of my day job these days, gets an interesting mention. Some day we hope to use .15926 software for conceptual modeling of a general praxeology framework to obtain a model [...]
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Signal to Noise Ratio ?
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October 2, 2012 at 1:21pm
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Hat tip to David Gurteen for tweeting this link to Knoco on Working Out Loud.
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You Gotta Have Faith
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October 2, 2012 at 10:36am
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Ricky Gervais too. “We all have faith. eg I have faith in science & friends.”
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Grey-Haired Wisdom of Hindsight
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October 1, 2012 at 9:43am
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Interesting interview with Mervyn King by Steph Flanders. Â Before the financial crisis of 2008, Sir Mervyn says, he had struggled to comprehend how policy makers had allowed the economic disasters of the interwar years to take place – now he understands all too well. But interesting nevertheless on “simplistication” – wise economists always had important [...]
