The queue can be sorted by date. If you hit date again it reverse the order.
Hasok Chang, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University, wrote a wonderful book Is Water H2O? In it he traces the historical and philosophical twists and turns to get from water to H2O. Along the way, he reckons with and treats seriously competing theories other than what emerged as the winner.
In the end, he doesn't disagree with the role of H2O in water. Rather, he shows how the process of scientific theory making is benefited from a pluralistic view through s repetitive process of challenge and theory adjustment.
I mainly made the comment because we shouldn't always assume what we were shown in high school captures the deeper process of insight creation.
He deals with the weekly emergent qualities like surface tension. We might be able to say that surface tension is one property of wetness even.
But I also think that water is one of the few phenomena that seems to actually have a strongly emergent qualities. Which is to say, there's qualities that are in water that are not explainable by the properties of its component parts.
Ultimately, one of Chang's goals it to contextualize and not reduce these scientific concepts for greater insights.
To be more accurate, I don't think it's wrong to say that water is more than just H2O. To get gestalt, we should say water is something other than the sum of its parts, H2O.
H2O is not water
Diuretic not laxative.
Fuck. I sorta do this. Not our of some need for symmetry, but so it's center of gravity is as close to the center of the carton as possible. Dropping eggs sucks.
Do the old fold and drip.
This may come as a surprise to some, but project managers exist outside of software as well.
He's smiling in the last panel.
Maybe their relationship is fueled, in part, by sarcasm and thats just part of their dynamic. By being sarcastic, he's actually demonstrated that his battery has recharged.
Textorcist
Get gud
I sort of miss mowing a lawn. I haven't had one for years, but the rhythm of doing it was always nice.
A little box you can put your app.
If the app does bad, it doesn't sink your ship. Just throw the box over board and repackage the app.
I'm not sure most people need it, but it could be fun to use a new app inside a container. Also makes updating that needs a restarting without shutting down your other services.
Forking
Objectively based solipsism
Gonna end up like Howard Hughes.
What happens in Seaside, floats seaside.
Report finds newer inferential models hallucinate nearly half the time while experts warn of unresolved flaws, deliberate deception and a long road to human-level AI reliability
The Singular of Data is Data
The singular of data in Latin is datum, but in English it's data. It is a mass noun where it's not easy to break it into individual, countable pieces. Something like sand is almost never represented in ite plural form of sands.
Turns out, stuffing her face with cake may actually have saved her life.
This could have been anyone of us. If only we had the courage.
More than three dozen chemistry laureates join broad coalition to advocate for high risk, high reward research to keep the planet fed
Help Setting up a Windows 11 Machine for a Kid
I'm currently setting up a windows 11 machine for a kid and want to make sure that their traffic is easily monitored. I've debloated much of it. Normally, I'd get rid of Edge and put on Firefox. But I noticed that Microsoft Family has the ability to monitor website usage.
I was wondering if there's similar functionality with Firefox or Chrome.
I'm most familiar with the iOS parental toolkit.
Finally, I want to let him have some access to some games, but I don't want him to purchase any games yet. I'm open to suggestions to getting this aspect locked in as well. I was just going to mimic my set up with Playnite. But I haven't really dug into it yet.
‘Systematic reviews’ that aim to extract broad conclusions from many studies are in peril
Human echolocation repurposes parts of the brain’s visual cortex for sound, even in sighted people
Act now and you too can see as well as a bat!
Authorities say climate activists have glued themselves to the ground at Cologne-Bonn Airport in western Germany forcing the suspension of flights.
Thousands of mostly ultranationalist Israelis are taking part in an annual march through a dense Palestinian neighborhood of Jerusalem’s Old City.
Who are the swing voters in America? | The Economist
We interrogated a dataset of 49,000 people to find out
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14210696
The two percentage points of vote share that Mr Trump has gained since 2020 come from three sources. The largest group is people who supported Mr Biden last time, but are now undecided, backing minor candidates or not planning to vote, who outnumber those making the same shift from Mr Trump’s camp. These voters account for 0.9 points of Mr Trump’s two-point improvement. Undecided former Biden voters are slightly younger, more likely to be black or female and less likely to have attended college than repeat Biden voters.
Mr Trump also enjoys an edge among people entering or returning to the major-party electorate. The share who say they did not vote for either him or Mr Biden in 2020 but have now settled on Mr Trump is 3.7%, slightly above the 3.3% who are choosing Mr Biden. This group adds another 0.3 of a point to Mr Trump’s tally.
The final group, swing voters, is the smallest but also the most impactful. Bec
Preview Post and Spoilers
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Also, spoiler markdowns weren't rendering in Boost when I tried using the menu insertion. I've seen other posts and comments with spoilers, so I'm not sure what's happening.
Who are the swing voters in America? | The Economist
We interrogated a dataset of 49,000 people to find out
The two percentage points of vote share that Mr Trump has gained since 2020 come from three sources. The largest group is people who supported Mr Biden last time, but are now undecided, backing minor candidates or not planning to vote, who outnumber those making the same shift from Mr Trump’s camp. These voters account for 0.9 points of Mr Trump’s two-point improvement. Undecided former Biden voters are slightly younger, more likely to be black or female and less likely to have attended college than repeat Biden voters.
Mr Trump also enjoys an edge among people entering or returning to the major-party electorate. The share who say they did not vote for either him or Mr Biden in 2020 but have now settled on Mr Trump is 3.7%, slightly above the 3.3% who are choosing Mr Biden. This group adds another 0.3 of a point to Mr Trump’s tally.
The final group, swing voters, is the smallest but also the most impactful. Because people who flip between the two major-party candidates both
The polls are suggesting a huge shift in the electorate. Are they right? | Politico
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14025725
It’s a significant reversal from recent history: President Joe Biden is struggling with young voters but performing better than most Democrats with older ones.
The polls are suggesting a huge shift in the electorate. Are they right? | Politico
It’s a significant reversal from recent history: President Joe Biden is struggling with young voters but performing better than most Democrats with older ones.
Five Takeaways From the WSJ Swing-State Poll
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13897979
Survey finds a fraying Democratic coalition as Trump gains among young and minority voters
Original poll and archive
Five Takeaways From the WSJ Swing-State Poll
Survey finds a fraying Democratic coalition as Trump gains among young and minority voters
Trump Leads Biden in Six of Seven Swing States, WSJ Poll Finds
In an era with an unprecedented amount of free educational content, the impact of Inclusive Access has been to create a monopoly for college bookstores.
Scrolling Another Instance's Local
Not sure this can be done, but I'd love to scroll another instance like I do for my local instance. I use that to discover new communities and get an initial sense of their post quality.
I imagine I could create another login for that instance, but would love to do it with one login.
Barring that, I'd love to filter communities by federated instances.