#Mathematical

pete wolfendale

deontologistics

There are two lines of thought about 'concepts' in philosophy: one that sees them as shared ideals (either metaphysically (Plato/Frege) or socially (Hegel/Brandom)), and one that sees them as cognitive

Jose Jorge

josejorgexl

As I said, I'm going to be talking about Probabilities for a whileLet's start with something easy: the Bernoulli Trialhttps://twitter.com/josejorgexl/status/1358966336253165568 A Bernoulli trial is an experiment with two possible ou

the outlier

rolandi_teeji

I often fondly recall how I sat for, but didn’t write the Mathematics exam during WASSCE. It’s probably one of the most daring things I’ve done in my life and

pete wolfendale

deontologistics

This morning I'm pondering some early influences on my thinking that I don't talk about so much: Quine's 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism' and the later Wittgenstein, especially On Certainty. These

President Elect Durinn McFurren

DurinnM

I want to talk briefly about a couple of reasons that physicists are so weirded out by quantum mechanics.Now, I want to hasten to say that quantum theories give REALLY

Dr. Joel C. Miller

joel_c_miller

I am a mathematical modeler of infectious disease. I believe models are very powerful, valuable, and tell us a lot.https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1340533431638355968 Nate has relied heavily on a model to inform his

Rasmus Bååth

rabaath

By now you might have heard the good news that #rstats is getting a new shorthand function syntax. Soon you'll be able to write the following in R!add

Phil Plait

BadAstronomer

Life on Earth has nearly been wiped out again and again over time. How has this planet stayed habitable for billions of years?A new study implies that in part, we're

Martin J Keatings SNP 1 | AFI 2

MartinJKeatings

One thing everyone needs to understand about AFI (and he'll probably tell me off for this) is its interim leader - Ex SNP MSP Dave Thomson.He knows his stuff on

Vikram

WhinerVikram

The Discontinuous Galerkin method today is a highly popular numerical method. But what is its origin. And how is it connected to Nobel prize winner Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.Thread. First, Radiative transfer.

evillure

_evillure

India's inventions, discoveries and contribution to the world. (Thread) 1. Diamonds. The earliest discovery of diamonds was in India in 4th century BC and were worn as adornments, used for

(((Frances *Cassandra* Coppola)))🕷️

Frances_Coppola

I'm tweeting this article again because I think it is so important. It shows that the maths in @OfQual's algorithm is fundamentally flawed. I suspected it was, because of the

Anthony Lee Zhang

AnthonyLeeZhang

Largely agree with Ben's points here, some other thoughts...In physics, mathematical models are either basically correct or not. Newton's laws either hold in all cases or are a wrong (or

Heidi N. Moore

moorehn

It is fundamentally hilarious that anyone thinks smart people and jerks don't overlap heavily. --signed, a journalist who reported on Wall Streethttps://twitter.com/ericmgarcia/status/1348659258011897861 Intelligence and entitlement go

Subomi

subomiplumptre

𝗜 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗡𝗘𝗗 𝗠𝗬 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘𝗦 𝗧𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘𝗦 | I never learned my math tables. Till today, if you ask me what 9x6 is, I don't know. I have to start

Gem Hunter

gemhunter888

I found the most interesting project of the last months. Its concept is very complex, so I will try to break it down for you, like always. I am very,

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