Bayes rule applied to DNA found at crime scene

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

Featuring a panel of AI and robotics experts...

And the pros are.... that... that Gold OA is not cat excreta?

A solid alternative hypothesis!

Say what you will about conspiracy theorists - at least they are consistent!

Neuroscientist, speaking publicly: "We know almost nothing about the brain"

Neuroscientist, reviewing a paper: "There is absolutely no way that complicated measurement can mean what they think it means"

Does the existence of neural signals prior to behaviour say anything about whether the behaviour is spontaneous?

So this is how it begins

green worm with overlapping scales

Leipidonotus squamatus- stunning scaleworm shot by Alexander Semenov! #worldpolychaeteday!

I’ve been warned that by engaging in politics, I might undermine myself as a scientist. Or worse, reduce the trust that people have in me or scientists as a whole.

This latter point is the thesis of a recent article by Byron Hyde: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I disagree for multiple reasons.

I'm all for having him brined!

BI 235 Romain Brette: The Brain, in Theory YouTube video by Brain Inspired

Interview with @braininspired.bsky.social for my book "The Brain, In Theory":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3zE...

If Higher Education is simply about "training workers", those workers will be the first to be replaced by LLM agents. Any cookie-cutter curriculum that you can spoon feed students can be spoon fed more effectively to - and regurgitated more reliably by - AI.

Monthly median Received to Accepted time (days) at Nature Genetics

"It didn't end there for Jesus..."

Keep talking!

Pretty clear where this leads... is it better to take the Bolshevik or the Menshevik approach?

An Easter milk chocolate egg sandwich.

Egg sandwich for lunch today.

Now I know why I keep getting ghosted

Tweet from Sean Leahy @thepunningman "The bond's Name. James Name" Pleased to... what? "Bond Name's the james" Are you alright? "Bames Nond's having a strong, call a Bondulance"

This one still fuckin kills me

This reads like the UK version of what research is for: "stop all that thinking and fix the mess WE made of the economy" because, remember, YOU are accountable to the public.

we should -> how could we

I don't agree with that at all. No aspect of life requires nondeterminism. It would exist just fine if all those quantum fluctuations were stored in some giant lookup table somewhere.

(I don't think they are, just to be clear!)

I think some (many?) people take free will to be ontologically equivalent to "could have done otherwise". So if the latter is a thought experiment, then free will is also a thought experiment, i.e. a hypothetical construct.

I would be on board with that!

FWIW here's my take: nothing "could have been otherwise" because we can't time travel. So random or otherwise, counterfactual events are moot.

We struggle with this because physical laws have regularity, giving us the *illusion* of being able to repeat the same experiment. We never repeat anything.

Right, but I think that's because managing determinism is less intuitive and seen as more problematic. I doubt many compatibilists would be scared of some randomness entering the picture - there's not much to add.

Compatiblism, as I understand it, doesn't *require* a deterministic universe. It holds that "free will" can exist *even if* the universe is deterministic.

In other words, randomness just doesn't really add much.

So I don't see it as a moot position: to me it is a simpler version of your position.

Departments easily succumb to realpolitik, especially when there is fear and uncertainty about direction, resources and image.

Wrong TSA agent sticks hand into rusty cavity