Adam Strandberg

@The_Lagrangian

Describing the fundamental dynamics of reality for over 200 years

Cambridge, MA
Joined April 2015

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    1 Oct 2017

    Artificial neurons cargo cult regularization; real neurons regularize with skin in the game (energy that could be used for something else)

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    Table of contents as compressed essay is a very good form (Feyerabend, “Against Method”)

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  3. Feb 1

    nobody cared about the mask until they found out who i was

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  4. Feb 1

    pioneering coronachic two years ago

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  5. Feb 1

    idk why masks are running out doesn't everybody have a month's supply of N95 or greater masks on hand in case of pandemic

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  6. Jan 31

    Incidentally everyone focuses on the “revolution” part of Kuhn but afaict his account of normal science is much more important and seems to fit history better

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  7. Jan 31

    Nice hearing various arguments that I’ve heard piecemeal in different places put into historical context (Goodman’s grue/bleen problem, Hempel’s ravens, limits of falsificationism, normal science vs crisis vs revolution, etc)

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  8. Jan 31

    listening to “Theory and Reality” on ’s recommendation and now of course I need to read Kuhn and Godfrey-Smith’s book on Philosophy of Biology

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  9. Jan 31

    my book reading habit has an R_0 > 1, this is unsustainable

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  10. Retweeted
    Jan 19

    ✴️ beware, if you do not fight with monsters, you may never become a monster -Mahanietzscheatman

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    Jan 30
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  12. Jan 30

    the official state account of the number of cases in China has now surpassed the worldwide count from SARS (~8000)

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  13. Retweeted
    Jan 30

    Difficult, important exploration of the manufacture of official knowledge by : on good and bad bullshit, ethnomethodology vs social science, a painstaking debunking of a Fact, and the original sin of psychology.

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  18. Jan 29

    The Raven is a poem about chatbots

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  19. Retweeted
    Jan 9

    the sorites problem doesn't hold if instead of a grain we add a heap's worth. but then, if we remove just one grain from the amount we're adding, it still doesn't hold. by induction, the sorites problem doesn't hold for the 1 grain case

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  20. Jan 29

    all my friends need to stop writing good stuff, i can't read it all

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