hopeless optimist, knight in sour armour, BPH, Ra-man, apatite, zircon, tonalite, non-adakites, nerdy geology
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23 Jun 2019
In argument, there are a few points we should not forget:
Logic is a map for thought, not a fetish.
Style is a means of transmitting ideas in the most understandable way, not to show off your prowess.
Critique is for improving ideas you want to be better, not hate.
#nottrivial
Paper alert. Our new single-grain multi-method-dating paper on detrital zircon is out since last month! www-sciencedirect-com.ezprox…
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30 Sep 2024
Quick shoutout to Marie and other co-authors for the new paper that just came out in Economic Geology @ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication…
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13 Sep 2024
New paper on-line by Birk Härtel, of relevance to the detrital community: finite-mixture modelling is not always the answer!: Ghost age components in detrital thermochronology sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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16 Sep 2024
Paper alert. When dating detrital samples, we can sometimes distinguish age components reflecting processes in the source area. However, sometimes the components we get are only artifacts.
Our new article deals with such artifactual ghost components
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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30 Jul 2024
Dear enemies,The Black Swan is now the most influential (that is, discussed/mentioned) 21st C book.
While almost all books have a half-life between 2 and 6 months, it does not appear to have a half-life. #Lindy
[Same with other 4 books in the Incerto. Graph is US only]
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25 Jan 2024
Discussion open for comments: The daughter-parent plot: a tool for analyzing thermochronological data doi.org/10.5194/gchron-2024-…
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13 Dec 2023
am happy to announce that our new article 'In search of lost time: Raman thermochronology of FC‑1 zircon' is finally published in Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. Big shoutout to my co-authors and everybody involved.
link.springer.com/article/10…
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zenodo.org/record/8233942 just put up a new, free software to use for #thermochronology, specifically for constructing daughter-parent plots in #FT #Helium and #Raman dating, but also for other kinds of scatterplots.
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21 May 2023
ChatGPT is a statistical representation of things found on the web, which will increasingly include ITS OWN output (directly and second hand).
You post something picked up from it & it will use it to reinforce its own knowledge.
Progressively a self-licking lollipop.
Enjoy
#AI
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22 May 2023
A lot of people are misunderstanding my poing about ChatGPT and #AI in general.
I am not saying it is useless. All I am saying is that it is no replacement for & no threat to *real* experts.
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4 May 2023
Hey there, check out our new paper in GGR on FC1 zircon and apatite as references for (U-Th)/He dating. Shoutouts to @CambAdventure and @GeoEnkelmann for being awesome co-authors :)
#thermochronology #referencematerial #helium #duluth
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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15 Mar 2023
Postdoc opportunity in geochronology @UofC_Geoscience @UofC_Science #postdoc more information enkelmann.org/opportunities.…
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23 Feb 2023
IQ psychologists figured out what we saw instantly from the graphs: performance stops at 1 STD (& reverses in top 1%!)
But they still can't get it's a negative measure, one of unintelligence, not a positive one.
The IQ test,too ludic, doesn't measure cognitive abilities .
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20 Feb 2023
You don't do well by trying to be right; it is impossible for humans. You do well by figuring out when you're wrong faster than others do.
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13 Feb 2023
Define a worn-out human, that is a person at once aged, decrepit, and vegetative?
Someone devoid of intellectual curiosity.
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7 Feb 2023
RT @nntaleb: When the facts don't fit the theory, the practitioner doubts the theory, the theorists doubt the facts; and the true empiricis…
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5 Feb 2023
I am excited to share that my book came out this week – all ages. Come explore the rocks at @BanffNP @Albertaparks
It is available on Amazon in the US and UK amazon.com/Rocky-Voices-Memo… and on all major eBooks. Soon also in Canada - ask you local bookstore.
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31 Jan 2023
ENTROPY DU JOUR
How Correlation does not reflect information.
A correlation of 15/16 is closer to 0 than 1
Mutual information vs Correlation.
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