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Very little that can be inferred indeed. They use linear regression to quantify correlations, that is they assume that relations are linear – and don’t even seem to justify why or how such an assumption should be valid. Good luck with that. Final blow is the use of p-values and “statistical significance”. To quote from the official statement by the American Statistical Association: P-values do not measure the probability that the studied hypothesis is true, or the probability that the data were produced by random chance alone. Scientific conclusions and business or policy decisions should not be based only on whether a p-value passes a specific threshold. A p-value, or statistical significance, does not measure the size of an effect or the importance of a result. By itself, a p-value does not provide a good measure of evidence regarding a model or hypothesis.

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There’s no shortage of self-help books filled with contradictory advice about the best way to organize your belongings. If computer science offers any lesson, it’s that there is no perfect solution — every approach comes with trade-offs. But if some items are more important to you than others, don’t be afraid to leave a bit of a mess. Some existential balm for the chaos monsters we are always trying to wrangle disguised in a discussion about datastructures.

I wonder how the ability for bicarbonate to act as carbon capture is impacted by ocean acidification though

Utter clickbait drivel.

Fantastic article with great figures tho it is grim… I feel so sad, but at least I feel less crazy now for thinking science as a career in the US had gone off a cliff, people are being forced to reckon with the fact that this cannot be undone with a flick of a wand and that the damage will reverberate for decades… for one it will lead to there being no early career scientists or engineers to train into more experienced workers in the US because we all left or changed careers. This is an alarm younger people have been ringing for years now while older people condescendingly ignored it and now the consequences have become existential not just to younger people trying to enter a career… This is the collapse of science in the US, the general public will not care or understand adequately how to rebuild a robust culture and funding structure for science after conservatives have annihilated it and thus this is inevitably the beginning of a period of stagnation in US culture where the centrist, moderate position is halfway between a basic understanding of gradeschool level science and MAHA quack nonsense pseudoscience. … …ughhh Don’t know how many times people told me not to worry and that at the end of the day that valuable science will be funded blah blah blah… To those people fuck you for telling me to calm down and be less worried.

Is it like the Time Tombs in Hyperion?

“Heal faster” seems like a no brainer. It’s very obvious that massage increases blood flow to the area of concentration. Increased blood flow certainly aids in healing. Anecdotally, I’ve witnessed clients skin wounds also heal more quickly with localized massage.

their content serves mainly to broaden their reach. I don’t think you’re making things better. When I started this campaign months ago I had to go back 8-10 pages of the local .ml feed each morning for crossposting. Today, it’s down to 1.5-2 pages and the bulk of that is from like 2 hardcore Tankie/.ml users (yogthos and Geneva) so I’d say it’s been more helpful than bad Moreover, your posts are so fast and frequent that they dominate at least some of communities that you target, often leaving local subscribers without a chance to post about the relevant topics on their own. Having watched it happen for more than a few weeks, I have concluded that your posts are mostly annoying, and probably do more harm than good. I don’t expect to convince you to stop, but would you at least consider delaying your reposts by a day, and then proceeding only if nobody in your targeted community has already posted about that topic? Can you give me some examples? A lot of the comms I post to I’m like the only one posting to. But there are some larger comms I feel like get a heavy hand of it, but bigger comms also have 2 or 3 alternatives across different instances So maybe a better solution would be to just divvy it up amongst similar comms better?

I have noticed Nature articles (and Physical Review articles as well) are very well written and interesting to the general public as well. Some journals articles from other journals are preoccupied with the formulas and data, but I guess Nature editors and publishers are also very preoccupied with the writing quality.

The smartest cow is usually the leader of the herd I would think.

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That headline is just an outright lie

Oh these little green kākāpō creatures are the cutest nocturnal parrots.

Slackers.

When did “controversial” come to mean “obviously just awful?” There was a point it required moral ambiguity.

… China wanted to outbuild Europe and the United States by launching the Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC), a colossal ring that would dwarf CERN’s famous Large Hadron Collider under the fields near Geneva. The idea was simple to state and insanely hard to realize: construct the biggest, cleanest “Higgs factory” on Earth, then follow it with a proton-proton collider that would push deeper into the unknown. Physicists around the world quietly redid their career plans around that dream. Then came the bill. As cost estimates climbed into the multi‑billion, then tens‑of‑billions range, the tone in official Chinese statements cooled. Internal debates surfaced about whether a giant collider delivered enough value compared to quantum computing, AI, fusion, or simply shoring up the economy. The CEPC, once floated as a flagship national prestige project, slipped into a diplomatic grey zone. No cancellation speech, no ribbon‑cutting either — just delay, silence, recalibration. For a project built on speed and ambition, this slow fade spoke louder than any press conference. … Scientists in China like to tell the story of how the original CEPC concept emerged from small, late‑night workshops in 2012 and 2013. Back then, the Higgs boson had just been confirmed at CERN, and the feeling worldwide was that the next step should be bolder, cleaner, bigger. In those early talks, the question wasn’t if China could lead, but how fast. … That dream met a harsher reality after 2015, when Chinese growth slowed and the global mood turned more anxious. Giant infrastructure projects used to be easy political wins; you poured concrete, took photos, claimed progress. A collider is different. You bury billions in the ground and wait years for results the public can’t touch or hold. As budgets tightened and geopolitical tensions escalated, the collider’s price tag started to look less like a badge of leadership and more like a risky bet. … There was never a single dramatic moment where a Chinese official walked to a podium and killed the CEPC on live television. Instead, the project drifted into the limbo where grand plans quietly go to sleep. Public roadmaps became vaguer. Key milestones slid into “future phases.” Teams that had spent a decade sharpening designs found themselves repackaging those same plans as “long-term options.” It’s the modern way of cancelling something without admitting defeat. You don’t say “never”. You say “not now”. And you let the silence do the work. … At the heart of the decision is a brutally simple trade‑off: the cost per additional unit of knowledge. Pushing beyond the energies of the LHC doesn’t just require a slightly bigger ring. It demands new magnets, new materials, new cooling systems, and a small army of highly specialized engineers. … When you’re a global superpower juggling aging populations, regional inequality, and a turbulent tech war, a multi‑decade moonshot suddenly looks like a luxury. … There’s another layer, more subtle and just as real: prestige fatigue. For two decades, China has stacked up megaprojects — record‑breaking bridges, high‑speed rail, massive dams, space stations. A collider is different precisely because its victory is invisible to most citizens. No one rides a particle beam to work. And while discovering a new particle might one day change everything, it’s hard to sell that promise on a TV news segment between housing prices and local weather. … Web archive link

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I think you’re right, my bad!

There’s some irony in the fact that I opened this to read it then left and did something else for about half an hour before coming back to this tab.