recovering physicist, easily amused.
Boston, MA
Joined January 2009
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You can find me on bluesky, same username. I post there as frequently as I do here for now but check it more often.
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This exchange reminds of the Motte and Bailey en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-…, an argument in which one conflates an interesting but hard to defend claim (the Bailey) with a defensible but uninteresting one (the Motte). Here's how it works.
Many popular narratives about social media harms are overstated.
Correlation is not causation & there’s still so much we don’t know.
Yet, @JonHaidt made a sweeping generalization: Yes, Social Media Really Is Undermining Democracy.
So, here’s the response:
bit.ly/3QzxZNp
Interesting thread about the book industry, mentions our paper as well, worth a look. Thanks to @albus931003 for pointing it out to me!
OMG In the Penguin Random House/S&S antitrust trial it was revealed that out of 58,000 trade titles published per year, half of those titles sell fewer than one dozen books. LESS THAN ONE DOZEN.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This seems to be a misunderstanding of annual punishing statistics which show sales of all books regardless of year of publication. It's definitely not true that most newly published books manage less than a dozen sales.
countercraft.substack.com/p/no-most-book…
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Scrat finally gets the acorn as a farewell to Blue Sky Studios.
“In the final days of Blue Sky Studios, a small team of artists came together to do one final shot. This shot is a farewell, a send-off on our own terms.”
Woohooo! “Complexity”, “Frustration”, “Spin Glasses”, oh my! I feel so seen. I am proud to say that Parisi once had an official reply to our paper in Phys. Rev. and we replied back. Good times…
BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2021 #NobelPrize in Physics to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi “for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems.”
Check the bottom half of this page for more info/context:
nobelprize.org/prizes/physic…
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Giorgio Parisi – awarded this year’s #NobelPrize in Physics – discovered hidden patterns in disordered complex materials. His discoveries are among the most important contributions to the theory of complex systems.
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Giorgio Parisi has been awarded one half of the 2021 #NobelPrize in Physics “for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales.”
This is your public service announcement: A new #murderbot novella just came out today! #FugitiveTelemetry by @marthawells1, in case you were unaware. There you go, your day just has been made. You’re welcome.
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SOME NEWS: this is my new book!! it’s called GOODBYE, AGAIN. i’ve been working on it for the last 3 years. it’s about saying goodbye to places you once belonged, the myths of finding solace in work, and the joy in small things. you can pre-order it now!!
GoodbyeAgain.com
ALT Book cover: Goodbye, again. Essays, reflections, & illustrations. By Jonny Sun.
ALT Text: The wonderfully original author of 'everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too' is back with a collection of touching and hilarious personal essays, stories, reflections—accompanied by his trademark illustrations—covering topics such as mental health, happiness, and what it means to belong. On Sale March 23, 2021.
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Thank you @Dirkmaggs. Thank you all the incredible cast, to @James_Hannigan for the perfect music, to the @audible_com and @DCComics teams. And most of all, thank you to everyone who has listened to Sandman, and who then told other people how much they liked it.
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All the little angels rise up, rise up.
All the little angels rise up high!
How do they rise up, rise up, rise up?
How do they rise up, rise up high?
They rise heads up, heads up, heads up, they rise heads up, heads up high!
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me if quarantine happened three years ago: wow I’m going to get so much writing done
me with quarantine happening today: wow I think we’ve set the record for how many times you can listen to five little monkeys jumping on the bed
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If you've been on the fence about supporting my Patreon, now would be a great time:
patreon.com/seananmcguire