“Of all of the firms offering big returns on made-up money, this one seemed the most solid,” a resident of London said.
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Florian J. Boge, currently an interim professor for philosophy of science at Wuppertal University and a postdoc in the interdisciplinary research unit The Epistemology of the Large Hadron Collider, has recently obtained a €1.35 million (≈ $1.44 million) grant by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for research on the impact of artificial intelligence on scientific understanding. The project, “Scientific Understanding and Deep Neural Networks,” according to Dr. Boge, “keys in on the impressive recent successes of Deep Neural Networks within scientific applications and inquires into whether, or in what sense and to what extent, this means an advancement of prediction, classification, and pattern-recognition over scientific understanding.
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To diminish essential workers' right to withdraw their labour would be a dangerous precedent and remove an important check on government excess, writes Gareth Roberts
The holiday season is upon us. As you go about your holiday shopping, might I suggest you to consider some gifts made by philosophers? Let’s start with stuff from the philosopher-artists who create the comics here at Daily Nous: Pete Mandik (Mind Chunks), Tanya Kostochka (To φ Or Not To φ), Rachel Katler (Ad Hoc), and Ryan Lake (Chaospet). You can learn more about their awesome offerings by checking out this previous post, or you can go straight to their online shops by clicking on their buttons below: Tanya has an additional shop here. Gifts featuring portraits of philosophers are available from Renée Jorgensen here. Maureen Eckert has philosophy and non-philosophy-themed art, clothing, and objects for sale here. I’m sure there are other philosophers-makers out there with various goods on offer, so if you know about them, please share the details and links in the comments. And let’s not forget a classic product made by many philosophers: books.
2 million to 4 million full-time workers are out of the labor force due to long Covid. (To be counted in the labor force, an individual must have a job or be actively looking for work.)
The midpoint of her estimate — 3 million workers — accounts for 1.8% of the entire U.S. civilian labor force. The figure may “sound unbelievably high” but is consistent with the impact in other major economies like the United Kingdom, Bach wrote in an August report. The figures are also likely conservative, since they exclude workers over age 65, she said.
Stuart Spray reports on the reaction by politicians, environmental groups and climate activists to the Government's go-ahead for the country's first coal mine in 30 years
Welcome to my Wednesday blog. And sorry if you were expecting The Twelve Blogs of Christmas this year. Radio 4’s Feedback This afternoon I’m recording an appearance on BBC Radio 4’s Feedback show, which will go out, I think, this Friday, 16th December, at 16.30pm, and will be available here at BBC Sounds immediately afterwards. ... Read More
Please use the comments section on this post to share information about 2023 Summer Programs in Philosophy for high school students. If you are organizing such a program, please add a comment to this post that includes: – program name – dates – location (is it currently planned as an online event, physical event, physical event with some online participation, physical event with an online contingency plan?) – contact information – application deadline – a description of the program – link to further information Related: Summer 2023 Programs in Philosophy for Graduate Students and/or PhDs Summer 2023 Programs for Undergraduates
Please use the comments section on this post to share information about 2022 Summer Programs in Philosophy for college undergraduates. If you are organizing such a program, please add a comment to this post that includes: – program name – dates – location (is it currently planned as an online event, physical event, physical event with some online participation, physical event with an online contingency plan?) – contact information – application deadline – a description of the program – link to further information Here’s an example: Colorado Summer Seminar in Philosophy: Norms and Values Dates: June 4 – June 23, 2023 Location: Boulder, Colorado Contact: David Boonin david.boonin@colorado.edu Deadline: March 1, 2023 (review of applications begins) Description: The Colorado Summer Seminar in Philosophy is intended for outstanding advanced undergraduates who are considering graduate school in philosophy. The aim is to introduce students to the atmosphere of a graduate-level seminar, giving them a chance to explore their philosophical abilities and interests before they commit to a graduate program.
Please use the comments section on this post to share information about 2023 Summer Programs in Philosophy for graduate students (postgraduates) and/or philosophy PhDs. If you are organizing such a program, please add a comment to this post that includes: – program name – dates – location (is it currently planned as an online event, physical event, physical event with some online participation, physical event with an online contingency plan?) – contact information – application deadline – a description of the program – link to further information Here’s an example: Journal of the History of Philosophy Summer Seminar: “Ancient Origins of Renaissance and Early Modern Feminism” Dates: May 15 – May 19, 2023 Location: McGill University, Montreal Contact: Prof. Mariska Leunissen (mleunissen@unc.edu) Deadline: February 15, 2023 Description: Mindful of the challenges facing young scholars working in the history of philosophy, the Board of Directors of the Journal of the History of Philosophy has established a Summer Seminar in the History of Philosophy.
IT’S your last chance to help top up the awesome collection achieved by the Mid North Coast NSW Harley Owners Group (HOG) on their annual Coffs Harbour Salvation Army Toy Run on Sunday 11 Dec. Salvation Army Pastor Andrew van Gaalan told News Of The Area, “The HOGs had a fantastic 29th year of the...
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The number of adults participating in government-funded further education and skills training has dropped dramatically, according to a report by a parliamentary committee
Sam Freedman, whose Substack is the only one I subscribe to, recommended an essay by one James O’Malley on this subject. But reading the essay, it struck me as rather obviously wrong-headed, mainly for the reason that the characteristics it identifies as quintessentially “woke” are shared with other political tendencies and currents, albeit in ways […]
Political turmoil in the UK has slowed down the Government plans to reform data protection: since the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill was tabled in Parliament this June, two Prime Ministers were quickly ousted and, six months after the Bill was published, a parliamentary debate around the Bill has yet to be scheduled. In […]
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But let’s start at the beginning. Why did you buy Tumblr?
Tumblr was always WordPress’s best competitor. I feel like Tumblr combined the very best parts of blogging and social networks, and it innovated the form of social media by introducing multimodal posts. One, I was excited to bring some of the fun back to blogging, because I think that everyone should blog more.
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Two, I wanted to see if we could create a mainstream social media that wasn’t reliant on surveillance capitalism or advertising as its primary business model. We run ads on Tumblr, but we also have upgrades that turn off ads, and we’re introducing lots of other subscriptions — some fun, some serious. If we can make it a subscriber-supported thing, then we can truly be aligned. Even if I were no longer running Automattic or Tumblr, the business model would align the users with its business.
CEPR has long viewed disability as an economic issue of fundamental importance. This past year CEPR launched a project to expand and deepen our work along these lines. As part of a groundbreaking initiative called the Disability Economic Justice Collaborative (DEJC). CEPR joined over 20 leading disability advocacy organizations and top research organizations with a […]
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It’s Wednesday, and I have two things to write about briefly before exposing readers to some more music. First, the evidential base for my ‘this inflationary period is transitory’ narrative gains more weight. The latest CPI data from the US…
The Reserve Bank of Australia is lifting interest rates in an attempt to curb inflation but risks an economic recession by doing so. read now...