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💧🌏 Greg CocksReading Material With Lunch, Etc – Getting Back To My Roots -- <a href="https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429270284" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429270284</a> | Thornes, J. B., Brunsden, D. (1977). Geomorphology and time. London: Methuen -- I saw this book on another post - and so went and found a copy at a 2nd hand book shop… Looking forward to lunches at work with a cup of tea and maybe a couple of rainy Sundays at home… -- <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geomorphology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geomorphology</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/text" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#text</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#book</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/landforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#landforms</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#learning</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/refamiliarisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#refamiliarisation</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/readingforpleasure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#readingforpleasure</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/framework" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#framework</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/model" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#model</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/processes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#processes</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geology</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#water</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/hydrology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hydrology</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#weather</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climate</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/erosion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#erosion</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/time" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#time</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatialanalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spatialanalysis</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatiotemporal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spatiotemporal</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/temporal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#temporal</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/qualitative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#qualitative</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/quantitative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#quantitative</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/change" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#change</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/stochastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stochastic</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolution</a>

Chuck DarwinMichel Talagrand took home the 2024 <a href="https://c.im/tags/Abel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Abel</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Prize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Prize</a> for his work on stochastic systems, randomness and a proof of a physics reaction that many experts thought was unsolvable<a href="https://c.im/tags/Talagrand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Talagrand</a>’s work focuses on <a href="https://c.im/tags/stochastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stochastic</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/systems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#systems</a>, which model random variables within a given time and space. Over years of work, he came to make sense of such systems, using mathematical inequalities, to better characterize the limits of their variability.Where to safely build a house along a rushing waterway, or how to anticipate the growth of a bacterial population, for example, are problems with solutions that may be closely predicted using Talagrand’s methods. The water level in a river may be random, but the mathematician’s work can discern its likely maximum level, which would advise where to construct buildings to avoid flooding, writes the New York Times’ Kenneth Chang.Essentially, his inequalities, which convert complex systems into geometrical terms, create precise estimates. They offer new tools for study and applications in other fields, including physics, chemistry, communications and ecology.“There are papers posted maybe on a daily basis where the punchline is ‘now we use Talagrand’s inequalities,’” Assaf Naor, a mathematician at Princeton University, tells Nature News.The Abel committee also commended another element of Talagrand’s work, which shows that even random systems have an element of predictability. For example, flipping a coin 1,000 times will predictably yield close to 500 heads and 500 tails. The same thought process can be applied to travel routes, and Talagrand’s principles provide convincing proof.“It’s like a piece of art,” Helge Holden, a mathematician at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the Abel committee chair, tells Nature News. “The magic here is to find a good estimate, not just a rough estimate.”Talagrand also earned recognition for providing a proof for a physics problem that many scientists thought could never be explained by pure mathematics. Giorgio Parisi shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for his 1979 work in predicting spin glasses, which describe the states and random behaviors of condensed magnetic atoms.After five years of effort, Talagrand—and, separately, Italian physicist Francesco Guerra—provided the mathematical basis for Parisi’s work in the early 2000s.“It’s one thing to believe that the conjecture is correct, but it’s another to prove it, and my belief was that it was a problem so difficult it could not be proved,” Parisi tells New Scientist’s Alex Wilkins. <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mathematician-who-made-sense-of-the-universes-randomness-wins-maths-top-prize-180984020/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mathematician-who-made-sense-of-the-universes-randomness-wins-maths-top-prize-180984020/</a>

skykiss ♾️🇺🇦 Vote MidtermsNew: Florida man arrested and accused of threatening to kill Rep. Eric Swalwell and his kids.This is <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Stochastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stochastic</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/terrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#terrorism</a> brought to you by insurrectionist republicans."Stochastic terrorism" is a term used to describe a process of incitement where a leader provokes extremist violence under the guise of plausible deniability. Although the exact location, timing, and source of the violence may not be predictable, its occurrence is all but inevitable.🧵 <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/florida-man-arrested-allegedly-threatening-kill-rep-eric-swalwell-kids-rcna132198" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/florida-man-arrested-allegedly-threatening-kill-rep-eric-swalwell-kids-rcna132198</a>

DB<a href="https://mastodon.world/@edgeoforever" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@edgeoforever</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@GottaLaff</a> This image, IMO, perfectly captures the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/stochastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stochastic</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/domesticterrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#domesticterrorism</a> that <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> is intentionally and repeatedly fomenting. I think we need to be clear-eyed in understanding the reality, we need to be able to protect ourselves from it, and we need to be able to stop it.

DB<a href="https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Free_Press</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/stochastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stochastic</a> domestic terrorism. Same as putting a pipe bomb in someone's mailbox. I hope the FBI and DHS have their shit together in investigating these crimes

Ramesh #NotGoingBack<a href="https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@GottaLaff</a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/@JaneDoeTheFirst" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@JaneDoeTheFirst</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@memphismary" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@memphismary</a> <a href="https://me.dm/@seth_88278" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@seth_88278</a> I think there's a very fine line between <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/targeted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#targeted</a> violence and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stochastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stochastic</a> terrorism. Both are horrible at a micro level, especially in their effects on victims and their kin directly.But within a national perspective, is it not prudent to accept targeted violence as a mere cost of maintaining societal good? We routinely put up with stochastic violence. Why not have courage to face targeted violence? Then convict and punish perpetrators?

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