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So in 2007, physicists wrote a paper that made the headlines: according to their calculations, human coin flips aren’t 50/50 - more like 51/49. Why is that, and did students in Amsterdam really flip 350,000 coins to find out? 🧵

Dissertation by Dr Rachel Los not only includes acknowledgements, but also .. anti-acknowledgements. delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/a-n…

Adding a third celestial body to a gravitational system makes things wildly chaotic and unpredictable. Hence the 'Three Body Problem'. Some beautiful examples of periodic 3-body systems: (via instagram user data__is__beautiful)

Slowly getting the hang of this (appreciate all the comments and feedback last time).

"A French scientist was refused entry to the U.S. after airport immigration officers found messages on his phone criticizing the Trump administration, the French government said." First time in many years I'll not be visiting US in 2025. independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…

Hearing SYML perform 'The War' live is the closest to a spiritual experience I’ve had in my life. May have even shed the one yearly tear I am allowed as a German.

Omnomnom

This is a study in mice.

Four large Dutch universities, including Leiden University where I work, have decided to throw international psychology bachelor programs under the bus in an effort to appease the rightwing government. Here's my blog on why this is a terrible idea. eiko-fried.com/cutting-intern…

New interview on the value of exploratory research "My brief explanation of this crisis is that researchers didn't say ‘I found something interesting’, but ‘I found exactly what my fantastic theory had predicted, heureka’. And then they gave a TED talk." eiko-fried.com/the-crucial-va…

Took years to find a way to get this to the Netherlands but it’s finally here! An incredibly precious piece to remember an incredibly precious woman, my grandmother Else.

The scripts of my dreams have a similar quality to the output of early LLMs: a plausibility prediction of the next step in a scene without a lot of coherent backwards or forwards considerations.

🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times LESS accurate than humans. Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.

Accidental ice cube heart art.