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A particular pattern in the numbers, a misbehaviour which shows that the scale is more than just a record: Source: Reddit Distribution of results of the Matura (high school exit exam) in Poland in 2013.

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2026-09-12 17:03

I’ve been making a website which tracks metascience relevant seminars – the Global metascience seminar monitor.

I finished East of Eden last week, and today The East of Eden Letters.

For here is the chief and most confounding objection to excessive scepticism, that no durable good can ever result from it; while it remains in its full force and vigour.

I’m mid-career and I’ve just realised I have never received any mentoring on how to manage my workload, on how to explicitly recognise when I’ve taken on too much and how to proactively regulate the things I’m committed to.

Of course they do, and of course they don’t.

INTERVIEWER: I think of the pushback against free speech by people critiquing what they see as institutional racism and deep social inequalities of power.

Just one quote from This Is a Philosopher on Drugs by Justin Smith-Ruiu, Wired, Mar 7, 2023: “Early in my new life as a late-blooming pothead, one thing that struck me was just what a crummy deal we in the West had been given, whereby all mind-altering su…

Inspired by @Edent I am trying to making this blog part of the fediverse – meaning posts would be viewable on mastodon etc and you could follow it like you follow @tomstafford@mastodon.online.

A.I. is dangerous inasmuch as it increases the power of capitalism.

“But aren’t we guilty of being insultingly disparaging if we refer to chess as a game?