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5 votes
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How Southern socialites rewrote civil war history
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Researchers say they have found the world's earliest confirmed case of smallpox, revealing the disease was widespread across northern Europe during the Viking age
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Hiroshima (1946)
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How to think about individual vs group hereditarianism
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What online courses / MOOCs have you taken?
Not leaving the house much these days (due to social distancing and also insane heat in NYC right now) means I've got some time to kill that I'd like to spend productively. I took MIT 6.00.2x:...
Not leaving the house much these days (due to social distancing and also insane heat in NYC right now) means I've got some time to kill that I'd like to spend productively.
I took MIT 6.00.2x: Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science a few years back when I was refreshing my Python skills. I think it's been updated a bit since then. It was a high quality course and I enjoyed it, though there are so many Python-related courses these days, I can't guarantee it's the best.
I'm currently taking:
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Model Thinking on Coursera from the University of Michigan. I don't know where I saw this recommended (maybe on Tildes or Hacker News?) but it's quite good so far. Scott Page teaches about how to use various models (mental models, computational ones, etc.) for breaking down and analyzing various problems and systems. I've only just started but I quite like it.
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Testing and Monitoring Machine Learning Model Deployments on Udemy. Taking this along with a few coworkers since it's relevant to what I do. Only just starting but appears to be quite good and works through a well-documented example project on Github.
I've also come across a few that seem like they might be good courses for the future:
- Bayesian Methods for Hackers
- Probalistic graphical models on Coursera (3-part sequence, not free)
- Computational probability and inference
Now your turn: what have you taken? What did you like or not like, and why? What do you want to take?
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Situating LessWrong in contemporary philosophy: An interview with Jon Livengood
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Richard Rorty, cancel culture, political fallibilism, and achieving our country
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Conservative arguments for inheritance reform
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Cancel culture is the marketplace of ideas at work
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Major videogame developer partners with philosophy department
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The village that the Luftwaffe bombed by mistake
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Was the 2004 US election in Ohio unfairly tipped to Bush?
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What subjects related to humanities you would like to be discussed on Tildes?
I love humanities and philosophy in particular. I'm also a layman in both counts. Nevertheless, sometimes I wanna post some personal/informal essays on these subjects, but I have no idea if my...
I love humanities and philosophy in particular. I'm also a layman in both counts. Nevertheless, sometimes I wanna post some personal/informal essays on these subjects, but I have no idea if my fellow Tilderinos have any interest in those at all.
So here are as some subjects I have in mind, please tell if you're interested in of those or anything relatead:
- The Philosohy of Love
- Possibile World Semantics
- Philosophical zombies
- Albert Camus
- The Kyoto School
- The Paradox of Fiction
- The Paradox of Suspense
- Aristotle's Rhetoric
- Informal Logic
- John Austin
- Speech Acts
- Fallacies
The idea is not to make anything resemble a professional take of these subjects, but rather informal commentaries that might serve as starting points for interesting discussions.
Sadly, I don' have the knowledge or disposition to comment on subjects that are typically popular on Tildes, such as those more directedly related to computer science and artificial intelligence.
In terms of reference, I won't go much beyond the refereed links, which are reasonably exhaustive for the purposes of this project. The periodicity will be once every two months (counting starts tomorrow), with the first post that comes in next Septemper 16, 2020 (Monday). 60 days from now. Because of that, it wil be probably long form (no quarantees!).
This would come in addition to my project of going through each informal fallacies in the Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments, but I don't have any concrete plans for that now.
In any case, these things take time and effort, and I'll only then if and only if you guys and girls demonstrate interest. So please be vocal!
I'll choose the next subject of discussion base on public interest.
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What made the Viking longship so terrifyingly effective?
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Whispers from fallen civilisations
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Ask Historians: How did Lincoln's political agenda on slavery change before and during the war?
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Ancient Rome was teetering. Then a volcano erupted 6,000 miles away
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The history of the Inuit peoples, the world's most extreme survivors
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Paul Taylor - #Franglais - Bilingual stand-up comedy
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Pyrrhonism
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The democratic virtues of skepticism
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What were the main issues in US politics from it's founding to when slavery became an important issue/the Civil War and what were the 2 parties of then about?
Admittedly that's 90 years of history but I've always wondered about what was the politics of the US back then, because I've never really known about them. The parts I'm most interested in are:...
Admittedly that's 90 years of history but I've always wondered about what was the politics of the US back then, because I've never really known about them.
The parts I'm most interested in are:
Why did it take until 1832 for the state legislatures to reach a consensus on how to elect people to the electoral college? I know states' rights are a big theme in US politics, but it seems really strange that it would take them 55 years to figure out how to pick the president, even if early on, that role was a lot less powerful.
Why were there so many parties before the US settled on the Democratic and Republican parties (although they have changed plentifully thanks to the US's 2-party political system where everyone needs to bundle up into 2 large coalitions or risk turning the US into a 1-party state.)
Why did they switch so often? From my count there are:
4 main parties being:
The Democratic-Republicans vs the federalists
The Whigs and National Republicans vs the (Jacksonian) Democrats
3 3rd parties being:
The anti-masonic party
The know nothing party/cult according to wiki apparently
The free soil/anti-slavery party
(Also in 1820 there was effectively no election, in 1824, 4 people of the same party all ran for president at once, in 1836 the same thing happened and 4 Whigs ran at once, but with Democratic opposition and 3 actually won votes while one just coasted off south Carolina. Why?)
Why were there so many large parties and what were all these parties about?
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K-Ships vs. U-Boats: Blimps hunting submarines in the Battle of the Atlantic
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In the context of healthcare, "lives saved” is the wrong measure
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What do you think of alternate history?
I tend to watch AlternateHistoryHub, WhatIfAlthist and occasionally Monsieur Z (but less so since the guy somehow got a far-right audience) so I've always been interested in the idea of alternate...
I tend to watch AlternateHistoryHub, WhatIfAlthist and occasionally Monsieur Z (but less so since the guy somehow got a far-right audience) so I've always been interested in the idea of alternate history.
However, there's more than that. There are books and writers (I.E Harry turtledove), 3 subreddits (r/historywhatif, r/historicalwhatif and r/alternatehistory), many games (HOI I, II, III and IV, civ 1-6, Vicky 1-3, etc), a forum and according to Wikipedia, people have been speculating about history since before the year 0.
So what do you think of it?
7 votes -
Newly released 'Palace letters' reveal Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr sacked the Whitlam government in 1975 without giving advance notice to the Queen
8 votes -
How time vanishes: The more we study it, the more protean it seems
8 votes -
Turkey turns the Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque
7 votes -
Is the state of West Virginia unconstitutional?
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Philosophy without a philosopher in sight: The Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita: ancient Indian texts that challenge Western categories, yet influenced the course of modernity
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When Senator Joe McCarthy defended Nazis
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How to deal with a racist past: A Bristol pub leads the way
5 votes -
Canadian scuba diver in Mexico accidentally discovers vast, prehistoric industrial complex
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Ashoka's moral empire
3 votes -
The perfect solution fallacy (Nirvana fallacy)
3 votes -
The practical case on why we need the humanities
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The Heavenly Court
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Young people around the world are less religious than their parents in several measures
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Hannibal, Rome's greatest enemy (parts 1 - 5) | Second Punic War
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The invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities was initially met with skepticism
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War of words as Nigerian English recognised by Oxford English Dictionary
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When proof is not enough: Throughout history, evidence of racism has failed to effect change
11 votes -
Forgotten for a century, Australia's first sanctioned air mail flight re-enacted at Lismore
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Charles Darwin vs Karl Marx
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The stoic self | An eminently practical take on who we are
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Does philosophy reside in the unsayable or should it care only for precision? Carnap, Heidegger and the great divergence
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How should I refer to you? | Review of “What's Your Pronoun?”, by Dennis Baron
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How Ayn Rand ruined my childhood
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The history of the US Army's 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the largest unit of black servicewomen to ever deploy overseas
4 votes