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It seems like at least the European CORONA crisis is coming to an end, so I need another socially accepted excuse for never being around anywhere. A blog!I can live with doubt and uncertainty...
“I can live with doubt and uncertainty,” he said. “I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.” He once defined science as belief in the ignorance of experts.
All these formidable talents...
All these formidable talents have been subsumed by American media realities; who can match television news and talking heads, and even the daily New York Times, in self-parody? Reality in America is more grotesque and hilarious than any parodist could hope to trump.
As I lay dying...
As I lay dying portrays the human condition as being catastrophic, with the nuclear family the most terrible of the catastrophes.
His spirit is ready...
His spirit is ready (willing) and his flesh is not weak. He dies extraordinarily, to the music of his own: “Let it be.” No death in secular literature haunts the reader more. Why? Hamlet’s final words - “the rest is silence” - are spiritually ambiguous, yet I read them as anticipating annihilation rather than resurrection. Therein may be the best answer to the question “Why read Hamlet?” He does not die a vicarious atonement for us, but rather with the single anxiety of bearing a wounded name. Whether we ourselves expect annihilation or resurrection, we are likely to end caring about our name. Hamlet, the most charismatic and intelligent of all fictive characters, prefigures our hopes for courgae at our common end.
Proust defined friendship...
Proust defined friendship as being “halfway between physical exhaustion and mental boredom,” and said of love that it was “ striking example of how little reality means to us.”
Of death, Proust remarks...
Of death, Proust remarks that it cures us of the desire for immortality […].
Nietzsche, in one of his...
Nietzsche, in one of his most Hamlet-like formulations, advised us that what we could find words for, was something already dead in our hearts, so that there was always some kind of contempt in the act of speaking.
Model–data synthesis in terrestrial carbon observation: imethods, data requirements and data uncertainty specifications
The focus of this paper is observation of the carbon cycle, and in particular its land-atmosphere compo- nents, as one part of an integrated earth observation system.
It's perhaps a historical pecularity...
It’s perhaps a historical pecularity, but we also lack a living woman poet who can rival Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Bishop. Ideological cheerleading does not necessarily nurture grat, or even good, readers and writers; instead it seems to malform them.
Model Selection and Multimodel Inference
We wrote this book to introduce graduate students and research workers in various scientific disciplines to the use of information-theoretic approaches in the analysis of empirical data. These methods allow the data-based selection of a “best” model and a ranking and weighting of the remaining models in a pre-defined set. Traditional statistical inference can then be based on this selected best model. However, we now emphasize that information-theoretic approaches allow formal inference to be based on more than one model (multimodel inference). Such procedures lead to more robust inferences in many cases, and we advocate these approaches throughout the book.