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It is a scientific mistake to allocate money to projects that do not challenge existing ideas.
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Pyongyang, June 9 (KCNA) — The Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea Tuesday released a detailed report on the truth about the death of Roh Moo Hyun, former “president” of south Korea.
According to the detailed report, Roh’s death was not a suicide but a politically motivated, premeditated and deliberate terror and murder orchestrated by the United States and the pro-American conservative forces of south Korea.
— CPRK Secretariat Releases Detailed Report on Truth about Death of Roh Moo Hyun (note “south Korea” is lowercase)
in copyrights, attribution is something that gets triggered by the making of a copy—not by the use of the ideas in the copyrighted work.
— John Wilbanks, Attribution v. Citation : Common Knowledge
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![Altrock and Traulsen. Deterministic evolutionary game dynamics in finite populations. arXiv:0906.3672v1 [q-bio.PE]](http://2.media.tumblr.com/8tzwebmLCp229b8v7mi9F3jyo1_500.png)
Altrock and Traulsen. Deterministic evolutionary game dynamics in finite populations. arXiv:0906.3672v1 [q-bio.PE]
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If the brain, like the rest of the body, is geared towards efficient energy usage by the demands of survival…, then consciousness may be a marker of inefficiency. Which makes the prime function of brains not ‘thinking’ after all, but rather ‘thinking avoidance’ wherever possible.
Think about that, and human behaviour starts to make much more sense.
— Kathleen Taylor, Creeping up on consciousness
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I’m baffled by the appearance of new academic journals. Does anybody really think they’re the future of academia?
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20th
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“Essentially, this site is what I’d have been doing when I was 12 years old had the Internet and Photoshop been available to me in the eighties.” — Flip Flop Fly Ball (via @mrflip)
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19th
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our models are just about always wrong. Rejection via a low p-value (with no other information) tells us that the model is wrong, which we already knew. The real question is how large the discrepancies are. P-values can be useful in giving a sense of uncertainty.
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16th
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history will show that the use of Twitter and other tools by these students has taken social media to a new level of significance by engaging millions of people around the world in a personal way in an issue they otherwise wouldn’t look twice at.
— Chris Anderson (emphasis mine)
