A C90 mixtape for the best of seasons 🎶 Just what you didn't know you needed as mocktails and vacation give way to mist and contemplation
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Petter Holme
@pholme
Scandinasian professor of network science
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A blog post raising a glass to slow science 😊
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petterhol.me I don’t want to hear your elevator pitch … but I’d love to talk science with you for hours, on the shores of Sakhalin or in the bars of Beirut, or in the nearest available seminar room. This is a short armchair-philosophical elegy to slow… one season follows another . . my mix-tape for the spring 2026. 90 minutes, to fit your BASF:
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open.spotify.com Spring '26 Your mixtape for the spring 2026. Fits any C90 cassette, of course! Blog time!
We feel that we understand things when certain patterns of explanations are in place. If reality doesn't follow those patterns, our understanding suffers. On to the 3rd of such eureka fallacy I've blogged about: explanation by optimization.
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petterhol.me The eureka fallacy of optimization When we learn things by studying or doing research, we perceive understanding as coming to us in step-like a-ha moments.1 I will argue that these moments happen more likely when we recognize (or ma… We feel that we understand things when certain patterns of explanations are in place. If reality doesn't follow those patterns, our understanding suffers. On to the 3rd of such eureka fallacy I've blogged about: explanation by optimization.
petterhol.me/2025/12/10/the…
Time for another mixtape to get you into that wintery mood. 🎶 A cassette-friendly 90 min, of course.
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open.spotify.com Winter '25 A cassette-long playlist for darkness, reclusion, and endless karaoke nights.