I think the most pressing and fundamental problem of the day is that people lack a practically effective means of sorting out questions of fact in the larger world. We can hardly begin to discuss ways of addressing reality if we can't agree what reality even is, after all.
The institutions that have served this role in the past have dropped the ball, so the next best solution is talking to each other, particularly to those who disagree, to sort out conflicting claims.
Unfortunately, far too many actively oppose this, leaving all opposing claims untested. It's very regressive.
So that's my hobby, striving to understanding the arguments of all sides at least because it's interesting to see how mythologies are formed but also because maybe through that process we can all have our beliefs tested.
But if nothing else, social media platforms like this are chances to vent frustrations that on so many issues both sides are obviously wrong ;)
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Programmer with Python and Javascript and newly Rust. Attending Hormozgan University. LOVE CS and Math.
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 73 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
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Writing Researcher and Computational Linguist | Lives in Vaud, Zurich, and Uckermark | «Isch no schön – hamers aber e chli grösser vorgstellt.»
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Theoretical physicist by training (PhD in quantum open systems/quantum information), University lecturer for a bit, and currently paying the bills as an engineer working in optical communication (implementation) and quantum communication (concepts), though still pursuing a little science on the side. I'm interested in physics and math, of course, but I enjoy learning about really any area of science, philosophy, and many other academic areas as well. My biggest other interest is hiking and generally being out in nature.
Particle physicist, Research Director of FNRS at UCLouvain. Member of the CMS collaboration.
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I enjoy things around information theory (and data compression), complexity theory (and cryptography), read hard scifi, currently work on weird ML (we'll see how it goes), am somewhat literal minded and have approximate knowledge of random things. I like when statements have truth values, and when things can be described simply (which is not exactly the same as shortly) and yet have interesting properties.
I live in the largest city of Switzerland (and yet have cow and sheep pastures and a swimmable lake within a few hundred meters of my place :)). I speak Polish, English, German, and can understand simple Swiss German and French.
If in doubt, please err on the side of being direct with me. I very much appreciate when people tell me that I'm being inaccurate. I think that satisfying people's curiosity is the most important thing I could be doing (and usually enjoy doing it). I am normally terse in my writing and would appreciate requests to verbosify.
I appreciate it if my grammar or style is corrected (in any of the languages I use here).
Trabajo de Científico de Datos, sea lo que sea eso, pero he llevado muchas caretas distintas. Hice un doctorado en Aprendizaje Automático, y reconozco que me gusta, pero lo que siempre me ha emocionado ha sido el arte y la literatura.
Leo (bastante), escribo (poquito, pero he publicado una novela), camino, escucho música y me encanta ir al cine.
Foto de perfil: yo sonriendo con gorra y los ojos medio cerrados por el sol.
Foto de fondo: un nudo marinero en una cornamusa.
Data Scientist. PhD in Machine Learning. Developer. I have a past in Bioinformatics. Usually playing with R, Python and other languages. Wish I could be younger to learn Rust or Elixir.
Hobbies: reading, writing, walking, music, movies.
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software guy with optometry past - he/him
Mostly software, emacs and stuff.
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