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https://twitter.com/gro_tsen/status/1728841944644866102There are many flavors of randomness and correspondingly many flavors of genericity, but the overall theme seems to be that a random object is one that doesn't belong to any “easily explicitly described” set of measure zero, … •2/21
https://twitter.com/temptoetiam/status/1709935199709192458L'édition (Livre de Poche / “Classiques de Poche”) que j'avais achetée de “La Légende des siècles” comportait la note suivante sur cette phrase:
https://twitter.com/TerribleMaps/status/1699163967187288368It does give “hairiness” data (again, mid-phalangeal!) on p. 192 for various populations taken from other sources in the scientific literature, but clearly not enough to make a map, let alone of “male androgenic hair” in general. •2/7
https://twitter.com/JCBtup/status/1661403902485340162Some seem to believe (or claim to believe…) that it's because there's something hidden behind the Great Ice Wall that takes the place of the south pole in their theories. But why not just claim there's nothing behind that wall but the edge of the world, or something?
https://twitter.com/gro_tsen/status/1661351783262822402Si on demande «tous les documents relatifs à X», on risque de faire face à une interprétation minimaliste, donc incomplète, de X. Mais si on précise «notamment X1, X2, X3…», il y a un risque que X1, X2, X3 n'existent pas, …
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https://twitter.com/kennedytcooper/status/1639636493579993088People who need to get from A to B arbitrate between their different options, taking into account things like travel time, comfort, safety, etc. In the case of cars, travel time (i.e., traffic congestion) is a major negative, and probably acts as buffer: … •2/9
https://twitter.com/gro_tsen/status/1639040857310371842Ça ne devrait pas être dur, à l'heure où on a je ne sais combien de satellites et de radars qui observent la Terre, en plus des relevés au sol, de savoir assez précisément le nombre de mm de précipitations dans un pays donné sur une année écoulée récente! Et pourtant! 😣 •2/25
https://twitter.com/Ab7Media/status/1637520639954153473Comme le rappelle Wikipédia dans son article sur le sujet fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasse_%28…, la CEDH a jugé en 2012 que la technique n'était pas en soi en violation de l'article 5 §1 de la Convention européenne des droits de l'homme (droit à la liberté et à la sûreté), … •2/16
https://twitter.com/temptoetiam/status/1637370515386953728For me, one of the main benefits of this redesign was that the French and English language Wikipedias now have the same overall look&feel once again. I don't know if the WP-fr people who chose to change the interface separately realized how annoying it would be, …
https://twitter.com/gro_tsen/status/1637214844628750336… alors que l'autre (enfin, une autre) Marie-Thérèse (1717–1780) a épousé François (1708–1765), empereur du Saint-Empire sous le nom de François Ier et grand-duc de Toscane sous le nom de François II (et qui a fait la guerre à la france).
https://twitter.com/gro_tsen/status/1634280414004105228My memory of ancient Greek is rather vague, but I do remember that inflectional paradigms were often difficult to predict, much more so than Latin, so I'm curious to see what a script generating them would look like (the Wiki source just says “{{grc-conj|…}}”); …