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I've come to the conclusion that conspiracy theorists bypass #Occam's razor in favour of Occam's epilator!

I've come to the conclusion that conspiracy theorists bypass #Occam's razor in favour of Occam's epilator!

I've come to the conclusion that conspiracy theorists bypass #Occam's razor in favour of Occam's epilator!

⬆️ @IveyJanette

>> Will #Trump bail #TigerWoods out of jail?

Let's say he does. Then that would mean #tribalism was key, and that #racism played no part in it.

And if he doesn't, are we going to bandy about terms like #intersectionalAnalysis to explain away the alleged #DUI, where specifics of the case are treated as mere pretext for discrimination?

To me, "analysis" of any kind means untangling intertwined factors to arrive at the simplest explanation. #Occam #Cosby

https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/116082934702707925

⬆️ @IveyJanette

>> Will #Trump bail #TigerWoods out of jail?

Let's say he does. Then that would mean #tribalism was key, and that #racism played no part in it.

And if he doesn't, are we going to bandy about terms like #intersectionalAnalysis to explain away the alleged #DUI, where specifics of the case are treated as mere pretext for discrimination?

To me, "analysis" of any kind means untangling intertwined factors to arrive at the simplest explanation. #Occam #Cosby

https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/116082934702707925

⬆️ @IveyJanette

>> Will #Trump bail #TigerWoods out of jail?

Let's say he does. Then that would mean #tribalism was key, and that #racism played no part in it.

And if he doesn't, are we going to bandy about terms like #intersectionalAnalysis to explain away the alleged #DUI, where specifics of the case are treated as mere pretext for discrimination?

To me, "analysis" of any kind means untangling intertwined factors to arrive at the simplest explanation. #Occam #Cosby

https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/116082934702707925

London-based defence tech startup Occam has raised EUR 3 million in pre-seed funding after its autonomous drone software passed field evaluation through Ukraine's Brave1 platform. The software operates under live fire without GPS or external connectivity. https://www.startupreporter.eu/occam-says-its-drone-ai-actually-works-in-combat/ #Tech #Startup #News #DefenseTech #Occam

London-based defence tech startup Occam has raised EUR 3 million in pre-seed funding after its autonomous drone software passed field evaluation through Ukraine's Brave1 platform. The software operates under live fire without GPS or external connectivity. https://www.startupreporter.eu/occam-says-its-drone-ai-actually-works-in-combat/ #Tech #Startup #News #DefenseTech #Occam

London-based defence tech startup Occam has raised EUR 3 million in pre-seed funding after its autonomous drone software passed field evaluation through Ukraine's Brave1 platform. The software operates under live fire without GPS or external connectivity. https://www.startupreporter.eu/occam-says-its-drone-ai-actually-works-in-combat/ #Tech #Startup #News #DefenseTech #Occam

London-based defence tech startup Occam has raised EUR 3 million in pre-seed funding after its autonomous drone software passed field evaluation through Ukraine's Brave1 platform. The software operates under live fire without GPS or external connectivity. https://www.startupreporter.eu/occam-says-its-drone-ai-actually-works-in-combat/ #Tech #Startup #News #DefenseTech #Occam

London-based defence tech startup Occam has raised EUR 3 million in pre-seed funding after its autonomous drone software passed field evaluation through Ukraine's Brave1 platform. The software operates under live fire without GPS or external connectivity. https://www.startupreporter.eu/occam-says-its-drone-ai-actually-works-in-combat/ #Tech #Startup #News #DefenseTech #Occam

@paw While I generally agree with this analysis, in Luxon's case it seems possible that he just said something stupid without thinking it through. #Occam

@paw While I generally agree with this analysis, in Luxon's case it seems possible that he just said something stupid without thinking it through. #Occam

@paw While I generally agree with this analysis, in Luxon's case it seems possible that he just said something stupid without thinking it through. #Occam

@paw While I generally agree with this analysis, in Luxon's case it seems possible that he just said something stupid without thinking it through. #Occam

@paw While I generally agree with this analysis, in Luxon's case it seems possible that he just said something stupid without thinking it through. #Occam

#Occam doesn't need 5 blades.

#Occam doesn't need 5 blades.

#Occam doesn't need 5 blades.

#Occam doesn't need 5 blades.

#Occam doesn't need 5 blades.

Given that we live in the stupidest timeline[1], I thought this might be useful in reasoning about the world around you ...

Occam's Butterknife: With all else being equal, the stupidest explanation is likely the correct one. [2]

[1] You may have noticed a lot of people have expressed this observation in the last month or so...
[2] I don't care if Steve Sailer has used this term for something else.

#stupid #stupidest #explanation #timeline #occam #OccamsButterknife #StupidestTimeline #reason #reasoning

Given that we live in the stupidest timeline[1], I thought this might be useful in reasoning about the world around you ...

Occam's Butterknife: With all else being equal, the stupidest explanation is likely the correct one. [2]

[1] You may have noticed a lot of people have expressed this observation in the last month or so...
[2] I don't care if Steve Sailer has used this term for something else.

#stupid #stupidest #explanation #timeline #occam #OccamsButterknife #StupidestTimeline #reason #reasoning

Given that we live in the stupidest timeline[1], I thought this might be useful in reasoning about the world around you ...

Occam's Butterknife: With all else being equal, the stupidest explanation is likely the correct one. [2]

[1] You may have noticed a lot of people have expressed this observation in the last month or so...
[2] I don't care if Steve Sailer has used this term for something else.

#stupid #stupidest #explanation #timeline #occam #OccamsButterknife #StupidestTimeline #reason #reasoning

Given that we live in the stupidest timeline[1], I thought this might be useful in reasoning about the world around you ...

Occam's Butterknife: With all else being equal, the stupidest explanation is likely the correct one. [2]

[1] You may have noticed a lot of people have expressed this observation in the last month or so...
[2] I don't care if Steve Sailer has used this term for something else.

#stupid #stupidest #explanation #timeline #occam #OccamsButterknife #StupidestTimeline #reason #reasoning

Given that we live in the stupidest timeline[1], I thought this might be useful in reasoning about the world around you ...

Occam's Butterknife: With all else being equal, the stupidest explanation is likely the correct one. [2]

[1] You may have noticed a lot of people have expressed this observation in the last month or so...
[2] I don't care if Steve Sailer has used this term for something else.

#stupid #stupidest #explanation #timeline #occam #OccamsButterknife #StupidestTimeline #reason #reasoning

@Aqsaqal celebrating his latest PragProg release -
Seven Obscure Languages in Seven Weeks

Let seven older, obscure languages open your eyes to new ways of thinking about programming, and change the way you code today.

http://pragprog.com/titles/dzseven
#Forth #Occam #APL #Simula #SNOBOL #Starset #m4 #7in7

Not a golang expert, but my hot take from this: https://gaultier.github.io/blog/a_million_ways_to_data_race_in_go.html is that it might have taken channels from CSP, but if you only take that, you’re missing out on much more. #occam

I've come to the conclusion that #conspiracy theorists bypass #Occam's_razor in favour of Occam's epilator!

Транспьютеры — революция многопроцессорных систем, которой не случилось

В самом начале 80-х годов двадцатого столетия, как и много раз в более поздние годы, возникло мнение, что обычные процессоры достигли предела своей производительности. Тогда, по крайней мере, к этому имелись все предпосылки: имевшиеся на тот момент технологии уже не позволяли разместить больше логических схем на одном кристалле. Традиционные компьютеры с архитектурой CISC приблизились к пределу своих вычислительных возможностей, и было неясно, можно ли его преодолеть. Именно тогда на свет появились транспьютеры — чипы с принципиально новой архитектурой, которую сразу же окрестили научно-техническим прорывом, революционной разработкой и будущим компьютерных технологий. О самих транспьютерах и о том, как сложилась их судьба — наш сегодняшний рассказ.

https://habr.com/ru/companies/serverspace/articles/844638/

#Транспьютер #INMOS #Ян_Бэррон #Elliott_803 #Modular_One #MISC #oslink #Occam #CSP

I passed #kripke enterprises on the way home. They do everything possible with aluminum, including a joint partnership with #occam for closer shaves.

https://www.kripke.com/

If you missed the latest episode of the Wisdom for Life radio show when it ran, or you'd like to see Dan and I in the conversation, here's the show recording of the episode, where we looked at a number of philosophical ideas people get mixed up about!

https://youtu.be/AcAo99tszHU
#Occam #Whitehead #Plato #Aristotle #Hume #Sartre #Philosophy #WisdomForLife #Radio #Video

This print "Occam's Razor" is about the Law of Economy or Parsimony postulated by Scholastic philosopher William of Ockham (1287–1347), "pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate" or entities should not be needlessly multiplied. More simply this law, or really, rule of thumb is that the simplest explanation is usually right. 🧵1/n
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#linocut #printmaking #Occam #Ockham #OccamsRazor #typography #sciArt #philosophy #histstm #imaginaryfriends #science #cryptids #MastoArt

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ Sagan standard ✧

The Sagan standard is the aphorism that "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". It is named for Carl Sagan (pictured), who used the phrase in his 1979 book Broca's Brain. The standard has been described as fundamental to the scientific method and is regarded as encapsulating the basic principles of scientific skepticism. The ...

#Sagan #BrocaBrain #ThéodoreFlournoy #Occam #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagan_standard

Thoroughly shuffled and cut the Aquarian #Tarot taking care not to even see the cards’ faces given that I want a clean initial reading without preconceptions.

#Occam
#Jungian

Research argues that #Occam's razor is an 'essential factor that distinguishes #science from #superstition'

#ibn_al_Haytham

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-occam-razor-essential-factor-distinguishes.html

Razors should not be multiplied without necessity.

#Occam's razor is the only razor in town (See, it even shaves itself!)

Me to my husband just now: “It’s like an Occam folding editor!” as I try to explain cut/spoiler sections in DreamWidth blog posts. That won’t make any sense except to fellow computer scientists possibly of a certain vintage. But sharing for them! I can still vividly remember coding Occam in the Edge basement Sun lab on the Scores in St Andrews in the early 1990s.
#Occam #ProgrammingLanguages #ComputerScience #StAndrews #FoldingEditors #Dreamwidth

At last, my #transputer project is ready to share!

I've written a program in the #occam language that uses a network of seven transputers ('80s/'90s UK CPUs for parallel processing) to simulate a flying flag --- much faster than the IBM PC/AT 286 host computer could do it, I think! (So #doscember too!)

I've also written a long writeup on how it works, with background on transputing and occam.

This was a really enjoyable project, so I hope it makes for fun reading!

YouTube teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY-cUEJT1XQ
Writeup@GitHub: https://github.com/stepleton/flag/blob/main/README.md

Hello,

I am working on an automated domain of reasoning called Occam. Here are some links:

https://occam.science
https://openmathematics.org

Partial lift off will happen in the coming months. One of the reasons I am here is to announce that. However, there are perhaps two or three years to go before things are ready for a wider audience.

#introduction
#occam
#openmathematics

At least with #occam and the rest of the tools from #INMOS, transputers are also programmed in the "bee" way rather than the "hive" way. What makes occam and transputers special is that they were built to be bees from the start! The computer and software architectures that underlie most cloud systems evolved from settings where there was only ever one computer: sometimes a large, expensive minicomputer that hosted multiple users, other times a desktop PC that was kept running overnight to do various server-like duties. The facilities that let multiple computers work together were added _post hoc_, and it shows. Local threads of one program share data in a way that differs from how separate programs on the same machine share data, which is different to how programs on separate computers share data --- and so on. Some programmers' aids like libraries and frameworks try to hide this complexity, but you can always feel the ancient rivets and seams underneath the shiny new wallpaper. (2/3)

My daughter is visiting for the weekend and has this book from her college library.

In the mid 80s there was a CPU called the transputer.

It was designed to be ubiquitous (like the transistor I guess) and had some interesting ideas around parallelism, but it didn't really catch on.

The transputer was programmed in Occam which seems to be quite low level. There's very little in the way of types (words and arrays of words), but the concept of channels is built in.

I found myself wondering if Occam influenced Erlang, but they seem to have been invented around the same time.

#programminglanguages #programming #occam #transputer

Me to my husband just now: “It’s like an Occam folding editor!” as I try to explain cut/spoiler sections in DreamWidth blog posts. That won’t make any sense except to fellow computer scientists possibly of a certain vintage. But sharing for them! I can still vividly remember coding Occam in the Edge basement Sun lab on the Scores in St Andrews in the early 1990s.
#Occam #ProgrammingLanguages #ComputerScience #StAndrews #FoldingEditors #Dreamwidth

Me to my husband just now: “It’s like an Occam folding editor!” as I try to explain cut/spoiler sections in DreamWidth blog posts. That won’t make any sense except to fellow computer scientists possibly of a certain vintage. But sharing for them! I can still vividly remember coding Occam in the Edge basement Sun lab on the Scores in St Andrews in the early 1990s.
#Occam #ProgrammingLanguages #ComputerScience #StAndrews #FoldingEditors #Dreamwidth

Me to my husband just now: “It’s like an Occam folding editor!” as I try to explain cut/spoiler sections in DreamWidth blog posts. That won’t make any sense except to fellow computer scientists possibly of a certain vintage. But sharing for them! I can still vividly remember coding Occam in the Edge basement Sun lab on the Scores in St Andrews in the early 1990s.
#Occam #ProgrammingLanguages #ComputerScience #StAndrews #FoldingEditors #Dreamwidth

Me to my husband just now: “It’s like an Occam folding editor!” as I try to explain cut/spoiler sections in DreamWidth blog posts. That won’t make any sense except to fellow computer scientists possibly of a certain vintage. But sharing for them! I can still vividly remember coding Occam in the Edge basement Sun lab on the Scores in St Andrews in the early 1990s.
#Occam #ProgrammingLanguages #ComputerScience #StAndrews #FoldingEditors #Dreamwidth

Not a golang expert, but my hot take from this: https://gaultier.github.io/blog/a_million_ways_to_data_race_in_go.html is that it might have taken channels from CSP, but if you only take that, you’re missing out on much more. #occam

Not a golang expert, but my hot take from this: https://gaultier.github.io/blog/a_million_ways_to_data_race_in_go.html is that it might have taken channels from CSP, but if you only take that, you’re missing out on much more. #occam

Not a golang expert, but my hot take from this: https://gaultier.github.io/blog/a_million_ways_to_data_race_in_go.html is that it might have taken channels from CSP, but if you only take that, you’re missing out on much more. #occam

Not a golang expert, but my hot take from this: https://gaultier.github.io/blog/a_million_ways_to_data_race_in_go.html is that it might have taken channels from CSP, but if you only take that, you’re missing out on much more. #occam