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@principlebasic

hopeless optimist, knight in sour armour, BPH, Ra-man, apatite, zircon, tonalite, non-adakites, nerdy geology

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calendar_today09-06-2018 12:39:33

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) 's Twitter Profile Photo

ENTROPY DU JOUR How Correlation does not reflect information. A correlation of 15/16 is closer to 0 than 1 Mutual information vs Correlation.

ENTROPY DU JOUR
How Correlation does not reflect information. 
A correlation of 15/16 is closer to 0 than 1
Mutual information vs Correlation.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom (@talebwisdom) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"When I see fraud I say fraud. When I see BS I shout BS. NO intimidation, no smear campaign, no mobbing by fraudsters like Shermer, Harris et al. will make me stop. The more RISK I take for my opinions, the more HONORABLE I feel. " - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #SkinintheGame

Eva Enkelmann (@geoenkelmann) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I am excited to share that my book came out this week – all ages. Come explore the rocks at Banff National Park, Parks Canada Alberta Parks It is available on Amazon in the US and UK amazon.com/Rocky-Voices-M… and on all major eBooks. Soon also in Canada - ask you local bookstore.

I am excited to share that my book came out this week – all ages. Come explore the rocks at <a href="/BanffNP/">Banff National Park, Parks Canada</a> <a href="/Albertaparks/">Alberta Parks</a> 
It is available on Amazon in the US and UK amazon.com/Rocky-Voices-M… and on all major eBooks. Soon also in Canada - ask you local bookstore.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) 's Twitter Profile Photo

When the facts don't fit the theory, the practitioner doubts the theory, the theorists doubt the facts; and the true empiricist doubts both the facts and the theory.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) 's Twitter Profile Photo

You don't do well by trying to be right; it is impossible for humans. You do well by figuring out when you're wrong faster than others do.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) 's Twitter Profile Photo

IQ psychologists figured out what we saw instantly from the graphs: performance stops at 1 STD (& reverses in top 1%!) But they still can't get it's a negative measure, one of unintelligence, not a positive one. The IQ test,too ludic, doesn't measure cognitive abilities .

IQ psychologists figured out what we saw instantly from the graphs: performance stops at 1 STD (&amp; reverses in top 1%!)

But they still can't get it's a negative measure, one of unintelligence, not a positive one.

The IQ test,too ludic, doesn't measure cognitive abilities .
basic_principle_PH9 (@principlebasic) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hey there, check out our new paper in GGR on FC1 zircon and apatite as references for (U-Th)/He dating. Shoutouts to William Matthews and Eva Enkelmann for being awesome co-authors :) #thermochronology #referencematerial #helium #duluth onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gg…

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) 's Twitter Profile Photo

ChatGPT is a statistical representation of things found on the web, which will increasingly include ITS OWN output (directly and second hand). You post something picked up from it & it will use it to reinforce its own knowledge. Progressively a self-licking lollipop. Enjoy #AI

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A lot of people are misunderstanding my poing about ChatGPT and #AI in general. I am not saying it is useless. All I am saying is that it is no replacement for & no threat to *real* experts.

basic_principle_PH9 (@principlebasic) 's Twitter Profile Photo

zenodo.org/record/8233942 just put up a new, free software to use for #thermochronology, specifically for constructing daughter-parent plots in #FT #Helium and #Raman dating, but also for other kinds of scatterplots.

Geochronology (@egu_gchron) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Discussion open for comments: The daughter-parent plot: a tool for analyzing thermochronological data doi.org/10.5194/gchron…

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Dear enemies,The Black Swan is now the most influential (that is, discussed/mentioned) 21st C book. While almost all books have a half-life between 2 and 6 months, it does not appear to have a half-life. #Lindy [Same with other 4 books in the Incerto. Graph is US only]

Dear enemies,The Black Swan is now the most influential (that is, discussed/mentioned) 21st C book.
While almost all books have a half-life between 2 and 6 months, it does not appear to have a half-life. #Lindy

[Same with other 4 books in the Incerto. Graph is US  only]
Stijn Glorie (@cdurango4) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New paper on-line by Birk Härtel, of relevance to the detrital community: finite-mixture modelling is not always the answer!: Ghost age components in detrital thermochronology sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

basic_principle_PH9 (@principlebasic) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Paper alert. When dating detrital samples, we can sometimes distinguish age components reflecting processes in the source area. However, sometimes the components we get are only artifacts. Our new article deals with such artifactual ghost components sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

basic_principle_PH9 (@principlebasic) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Quick shoutout to Marie and other co-authors for the new paper that just came out in Economic Geology ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication/38…