Alex Natale

@MattersDarkly

Adjunct, PhD in physics (hep-ph), former Fellow @ Korea Institute for Advanced Study. Titan stan. He posts w/ a focus on His interests: sci-fi, science & math.

Vrijeme pridruživanja: srpanj 2017.

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    27. sij

    You can only call it an espresso if it's from the espress region of Italy, otherwise it's a large coffee the size of a small coffee.

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    prije 6 sati

    Me, at a seminar: Oh no this is Windows. How do I connect to wifi??? Star Trek person on an *unknown* alien spaceship: Yes, I can bring the systems online. Let me see if I can connect the command module to the subspace modulator and do a level-3 analysis of the transporter.

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    2. velj

    A=A? Identity politics is so rampant in universities that they even made it a law of logic.

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  5. prije 8 sati

    So for instance, often the argument isn't merely that "I disagree with X." but rather you're responding to someone in the first group, who also disagrees with X, and you say "I disagree with X," implying everyone into Y policy believes X too. This is the eternal frustration IMO.

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  6. prije 8 sati

    We could steelman this first group. It's obvious that people *do* say "X is good, actually" then perhaps what they mean is that it is unfair to treat anyone advocating for a set of common policies Y, as if they're the exact same as the group advocating "X is good, actually."

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  7. prije 8 sati

    My general view is this split indicates a real internal variation of the underlying ideology, that has real consequences and leads to real disagreements, but that for whatever reason these "internal" disagreements matter less than the one each group has with Person A.

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    composing my tweets like

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  9. prije 9 sati

    If the original context of a discussion is post K-12 education, and your reaction is motivated out of fear about your kids K-12 education and what the college level stuff means for your kids, then perhaps abrasive insistence you remain attached to reality is warranted. YMMV

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    Provocative quote in here from Dirac, remarking that we need classical mechanics to define quantum mechanics, even though it really should be a limit of quantum mechanics. Happily now we know better, and classical mechanics isn't needed at all!

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  12. 2. velj

    This is (AFAICT) my view. Presenting the history of natural sciences improves pedagogy in STEM classrooms. Yet, it doesn't matter to some critics, who will pretend a frank discussion of that history is a strawmen ("2+2 = 4 is racist") regardless of the benefits to students.

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  14. 2. velj

    I push to new heights. More tabs! Nothing can stop me. Which tab makes that noise?

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    Philosophy and science are done by humans which makes them tricky.

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  16. 2. velj

    me, a being composed entirely of Nothing: you cannot break the cycle. Give in to the Void. Make the Bad Post.

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  17. 2. velj

    We literally have a point where if you use the "hashtag math" it is a *political slogan*. Yet, the people upset about mathematics teachers op-eding about their concerns hold up this sloganeering of mathematics, and a radical kind of de-political politick, as "their guy."

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  18. 2. velj

    ... I don't think we should be politicizing math in a broader sense. Even if it ends up being a tool in politics frequently, a lot of basic methods shouldn't be political. However, the people levying that argument the strongest in this moment are advancing their own politics.

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  19. 2. velj

    So the point is that, there's clearly a debate not on whether or not math should be a political tool but how and for what ends. This is deeply disturbing, because even if I appreciate the particular pedagogical concerns of one group's politics wrt history, examples, etc...

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  20. 2. velj

    If we're generous, then the politicization of math might be a bad argument... but if we're honest then people who are now upset about this have already politicized metaphysics of math. We've seen these same Twitter figures lose their shit over arguments against Platonic realism.

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  21. 2. velj

    Imagine that we had a conversation about the history of mathematics, and how we use that in the classroom for pedagogy, and maybe we need to shift which history and applications we emphasize as teachers. I bet we'd be having the exact same players making the same args on Twitter.

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