Zephyr Penoyre

@zpenoyre

the physics and dynamics of learning, decision making and the transfer of ideas. also space stuff. trying to be kind.

Vrijeme pridruživanja: lipanj 2012.

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    3. stu 2019.

    For reference, glossary of hashtags: - generalisations of ubiquitous online behaviour or landscape - the underlying feedback loop at the cause of some surface behaviour

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    Any other suggestions of truisms /? Facts that stated on their own serve only to flag the a kind of intellectual superiority of the one staying them (without actually encouraging understanding our deeper learning)

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    Other examples could include: Whales are actually mammals The earth is round Humans are mostly water and pretty much anything you'll find in a Christmas cracker

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    This is one example, of many, of such facts stated not to help explain the empirical universe but to show superiority of learning and recall - it can lead to deeper understanding and teachable moments - but often is presented standalone as simple one-upmanship

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    But that requires good will and commitment of time and effort that "Well actually it's already happened" does not achieve

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    That's not to say that mentioning this cannot be useful - it can start interesting conversations about physics and philosophy - lead in to a creative discussion about the nature of time - and inspire rightful wonder about the natural world

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    It has little to do with understanding the cause and effect of the system, and a lot to do with wanting to signal "I'm better than you because I know this fact" knowledge. To smugly state it is to raise yourself above other non-deserving mortals as a badge of twisted-pride.

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    The instinct to point out "it happened thousands of years ago" is thus a strange one. It doesn't really achieve anything except flagging that the pointer-outer has some base familiarity with relativity - and is much more likely to obfuscate the understanding of others

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    But to say that we're observing the past is strangely misleading - there is no other now we can inhabit. Now is not some universal ideal, but a function of where we are (and if we want to bring more relativity in, how fast we're moving)

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    This IS true - but only in some non-existant objective universe, with a single standard of time - that we can never inhabit. Light travel time has many interesting effects, including meaning that distant events observed now "occured" a time distance/c ago in the objects frame

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    The conversation about brings up a lot of a common bit of (dogmatic repetition and enjoyment of the factual outcome of achieve devoid of the process) - that whatever is happening to the star is going on "in the past"

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  12. 31. sij

    it provides a way to ask, with relatively good precision, which questions are, on a fundamental level, answerable and that's exactly why we have steered away from it for decades - many questions hotly debated and worked upon today are proved unknowable - many ideal truths naive

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  13. 31. sij

    it's implications go far beyond maths and physics - every hyper-rationalist "the world should be this way because science" demagogue has the rug pulled out from under them - every field studied that defies statistically significant answers is explained

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  14. 31. sij

    this is fantastic - and leads to a conclusion I've come to recently - that there's something very lacking in our teaching of physics and maths, we shy away from chaos (it muddies a picture of perfect analytical science) where perhaps we should embrace it

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  15. 31. sij

    ...but then that job is as a more senior paper-cranker-outer. Do structures exist beyond this paradigm?

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  16. 31. sij

    some may say that wanting this precludes an individual from being able to sustain an academic career - I'm often told that there is no "enough" in terms of first author papers and I should just crank out as many as I can to secure a job...

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  17. 31. sij

    i can't really tell if this is a reasonable request or a very self-entitled thing to want, i'm guessing there are many in academia who would flourish in these conditions and bring higher net productivity to their groups

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  18. 31. sij

    job search: minimum wage will do all your mathematics/statistics nth author on papers never make me responsible for finishing tasks

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  19. 31. sij

    today in : hard drive is full try to empty trash cannot complete action because hard drive is full

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  20. 31. sij

    No promises as to what may be happening, but for anyone outside of Astro I recommend keeping an eye on - Betelgeuse has been steadily dimming for a few months - and this bot post non-intrusive daily updates

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  21. 30. sij

    Internal paradox - daily fear that I'm on the lhs of the Dunning-Kruger graph and at the same time Not sure I could be less confident in myself

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