Juan Jiménez A.

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Sociólogo, Doctor en Cs. Sociales, U. de Chile. En un peregrino esfuerzo por un 'Esbozo de una Historia Global de las Formas Institucionales' https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343470554_Esbozo_de_historia_global_de_las_formas_institucionales

Great book. Just finished. Whenever I read Castoriadis it is a pleasure.

I suppose next days I will be commenting some quotes.

Controlled experiment finds no detectable citation bump from Twitter promotion https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.17.558161v1 Good that article choice and tweet timing were randomized. In observational setting, it is likely that people tweet about the most interesting papers, which are also likely to perform better on attention metrics (citations, Altmetrics etc.).
- Altmetrics and tweets are boosted.
- Citations higher after three years, but w/o statistical significance.
Three thoughts on this: 1/
@academicchatter

Pourvu que certaines conditions soient remplies, il est beaucoup plus facile d'adopter un objet technique nouveau que d'inventer una nouvelle relation technique (Philippe Descola, Par-delà nature et culture, Cap. 15, p. 653)

Útil reflexión en torno a las adopciones técnicas al fin

#sociology #sociología #anthropology #antropologia

Para comentario (q siempre se necesita), artículo en torno a claridad y confusión en teoría/acción social. La idea central es q la exigencia de claridad muchas veces la aplicamos no tanto en el modelo sino en el *objeto*. Pero nuestro objeto es confuso.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373072126_Contra_el_ideal_de_la_claridad_Hacia_una_modelacion_clara_de_una_accion_confusa_BORRADOR

#sociology #sociología

We've seen this movie before. As Imani Barbarin says, they’re going to “herd immunity” climate change.

When white supremacy starts losing elections, white supremacists game the system to hold power anyway.

This is why the United States lacks democratic legitimacy.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/27/georgia-augusta-judicial-circuit-split-republicans

A Black prosecutor was elected in Georgia – so white Republicans made their own district

After Jared Williams was elected Augusta DA, a lawyer and state lawmaker made an unusual proposal: that the whitest county split from the circuit

The Guardian

Every time someone talks to ChatGPT for 20 exchanges or so ...

... Microsoft's servers use a half-liter of freshwater to cool down

AI is *thirsty*

My essay on some implications of this: https://clivethompson.medium.com/ai-is-thirsty-37f99f24a26e

A "friend" link, in case you don't subscribe to Medium: https://clivethompson.medium.com/ai-is-thirsty-37f99f24a26e?sk=f5b2ea10c649a34236577139fecfd86a

I've been upgrading my SADI code for lifecourse sequence analysis in #Stata (categorical time-series stuff, in effect).

As a side exercise I adapted the TWED distance measure for continuous variables, not just categorical. Time Warp Edit Distance stretches and compresses the time axis to calculate similarity in time-series, allowing recognition of similarity displaced in time (with penalisation).

Here I cluster country-level COVID19 data, specifically per-million daily death rates.

@mattblaze I find interesting that even if the movie portrayed Strauss as the villain, I felt that what Strauss said about Oppenheimer (that he could do it again, that he wanted the glory of the tortured genius) was correct.
@nicol @mviktoro @grumpasaurus Even more, the CEO character was not completely negative. The movie pointed out criticisms of Mattel, but the portrayal of the business do not only criticizes. The founder character was put in the 'wise old person' role, right?