John Symons
Professing #Philosophy and #ComputerScience in the service of the people of #Kansas. #RockChalk
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Hate crime bill: Hate talk in homes ‘must be prosecuted’
Conversations over the dinner table that incite hatred must be prosecuted under Scotland’s hate crime law, the justice secretary has said.Journalists and theatre directors should also face the courts
Metropolitan Opera | Nightly Opera Stream
John Symons
Kate Lindsey @kate_mezzo is staggeringly brilliant as Nero in the Met's staging of Handel's Agrippina which they're showing for free again tonight metoperafree.brightcove-services.com/?videoId=62003… Worth watching for her performance alone. Incredible opera
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WSJ News Exclusive | Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project Into Political Ad Targeting
Facebook is demanding that a New York University research project cease collecting data about its political-ad targeting practices, setting up a fight with academics seeking to study the platform without the company’s permission.
Reopen the American Mind
In the midst of an existential crisis for higher education, is it even reasonable to expect the humanities to survive?
John Symons
Those who truly care about the future of the humanities, as opposed to the viability of certain career paths, might begin by seeing such public-facing pursuits as central, rather than ancillary, to their mission
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Freeman Dyson - Coming to Cambridge as a fellow - Wittgenstein (47/157)
John Symons
Freeman Dyson - Remarks on Wittgenstein (hilarious) youtu.be/byi3vOnVodQ via @YouTube
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A Question of Life and Death Looms for Amy Coney Barrett
If confirmed, she may soon have to reconcile her Catholic morality and the law over a death penalty case.
John Symons
Powerful and compelling case by @ebruenig from a Catholic perspective: "Judge Barrett... should use her authority, to oppose the death penalty."
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Don DeLillo: 'I wondered what would happen if power failed everywhere'
The US novelist, long preoccupied by the uneasy reality of western society, talks about his latest book, set in a world hit by a tech blackout
Philosopher Richard T. De George — Contemporary Philosophy
Contemporary Philosophy: Global conversations Hosted by John symons, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas. The guest today is Richard T. De George, The Father of business ethics, Recipient of an Honorary degree with co-recipients...
WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 - 11 May 2020
John Symons
@christianmunthe @ewinsberg fair enough, it does look like they had a moderate position on lockdowns in May, who.int/dg/speeches/de… but now there's a strong shift in tone/emphasis: "ghastly global catastrophe" as the costs become clearer to all.
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WHO backflips on virus stance by condemning lockdowns
The World Health Organisation has backflipped on its original COVID-19 stance after calling for world leaders to stop locking down their countries and economies.
John Symons
WHO: "we appeal to world leaders stop using lockdown as your primary control method". The effects of the lockdowns are a "ghastly global catastrophe" for the world's poor. h/t @ewinsberg
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Effect of school closures on mortality from coronavirus disease 2019: old and new predictions
Objective To replicate and analyse the information available to UK policymakers when the lockdown decision was taken in March 2020 in the United Kingdom.
Design Independent calculations using the CovidSim code, which implements Imperial College...
John Symons
Very important study: Effect of school closures on mortality from coronavirus disease 2019: old and new predictions
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Lawrence Talks Podcast S2 Ep. 21 - Can Ethics Courses Influence Decision-Making w/ Brad Cokelet — Lawrence Talks!
Episode 21 Summary: On this episode of Lawrence Talks: Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas Dr. Brad Cokelet joins Kevin and I, to discuss a study that explores what affects if any undergraduate philosophy courses can have on the...
Global conversations Philosopher Agnes Callard محادثات عالمية: الفيلسوفة آغنيس كالارد
سلسلة الفلسفة المعاصرة : محادثات عالمية في الحلقة السابعة يحاور جون سيمونز أستاذ الفلسفة من جامعة كانساس، الفيلسوفة آغنيس كالارد . الأستاذة المشاركة في قسم ا...
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John Symons
Conversation with Agnes Callard @AgnesCallard youtu.be/YrwW-L1YIl4 pic.twitter.com/P1o8RmX10T
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Software Engineering Standards for Epidemiological Modeling
There are many normative and technical questions involved in evaluating the
quality of software used in epidemiological simulations. In this paper we
answer some of these questions and offer practical guidance to practitioners,
funders, scientific...
What Have Google's Random Quantum Circuit Simulation Experiments Demonstrated about Quantum Supremacy?
Quantum computing is of high interest because it promises to perform at least
some kinds of computations much faster than classical computers. Arute et al.
2019 (informally, "the Google Quantum Team") report the results of experiments
that purport...
John Symons
What Have Google's Random Quantum Circuit Simulation Experiments Demonstrated about Quantum Supremacy?
arxiv.org/abs/2009.07359
Forthcoming in Arabnia at al Advances in Software Engineering Springer (with Jack)
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Quarantine
In the worst hour of the worst season
John Symons
Just learned that Eavan Boland died this spring. She left us some great poems. If you don't know her, read 'Quarantine'
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The Sturgis Biker Rally Did Not Cause 266,796 Cases of COVID-19
The huge figure immediately hit the “confirmation bias” button in many people’s brains. But hold up.