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'In philosophy, one must start from scratch – & it takes a very long time to reach scratch'
Iris Murdoch, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, Clare Mac Cumhaill, or Rachael Wiseman*
This dictum has stuck in my mind since I heard it on BBC 4 Extra this morning. It occurred in a reading of Metaphysical Animals, a book by philosophy lecturers Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman.

1/N Ylistäkäämme Maailman polkupyöräpäivänä polkupyörän monipuolista vastuullisuutta, josta ei puutu oikeastaan mitään elementtiä:
SOSIAALINEN VASTUULLISUUS: Polkupyörän ansiosta työväki pääsi aamulla töihin tai vaikka illalla mielenosoituksiin aamulla vaikkei omistanut hevosta, tai vähän myöhemmin autoa. Naisetkin pääsivät pois kotoa hellan ja pyykkäyksen äärestä singahtamaan kylille tarpeesta ja vaikka ilman tarvetta.

"Die Medizinerin witterte eine Straftat. Bei der Übergabe an die Kollegen von der Intensivmedizin regte sie an, die Patientin zu fotografieren und rechtsmedizinisch zu untersuchen. Doch nichts dergleichen geschah. Die Polizeibeamtin, die vor Ort von Marvin S. erfahren hatte, dass er mit der jungen Frau einvernehmlich Drogen konsumiert und dann mit ihr geschlafen habe, stieß sich zwar an den frauenfeindlichen Beschriftungen. Andererseits war er es selbst gewesen, der den Notruf gewählt u…

Qwirkle, Blogs und Philosophie von @…
Auch wir sind Qwirkle-Fans ...
https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glauben…

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LLM-Powered Test Case Generation for Detecting Bugs in Plausible Programs
Detecting tricky bugs in plausible programs, those that pass existing test suites yet still contain bugs, remains a significant challenge in software testing. To address this problem, we propose TrickCatcher, an LLM-powered approach to generating test cases for uncovering bugs in plausible programs. TrickCatcher operates in three stages: First, it uses an LLM to generate program variants based on the program under test (PUT) and its specification. Second, it employs an LLM to construct an input…

Can Machines Philosophize?
Michele Pizzochero, Giorgia Dellaferrera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00675 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.00675…

Can Machines Philosophize?
Inspired by the Turing test, we present a novel methodological framework to assess the extent to which a population of machines mirrors the philosophical views of a population of humans. The framework consists of three steps: (i) instructing machines to impersonate each human in the population, reflecting their backgrounds and beliefs, (ii) administering a questionnaire covering various philosophical positions to both humans and machines, and (iii) statistically analyzing the resulting response…

I believe a philosophy that can be called wide-ass. Everyone contributes their thoughts, and beliefs, and actions to the wide-ass philosophy.
My personal philosophies are more wise-ass. But I don't think that navel-gazing from the inside, or head-up-the-ass philosophies will lead to useful enlightenment.
I could be wrong... It wouldn't be the 1st time...
#Philosophy

Uh, ein Rumpeln geht durch das #PflegeNetzSachsen:
Die #Pflegedirektorin des UKD geht nach #Greifswald.

Führungswechsel in der Pflegeleitung - Jana Luntz wird neue Pflegevorständin in Greifswald
Jana Luntz übernimmt ab Oktober die Pflegeleitung der Unimedizin Greifswald. Sie folgt auf Peter Hingst und bringt langjährige Leitungserfahrung mit.

Estimands for Randomized Discontinuation Designs in Oncology
Ayon Mukherjee, Oleksandr Sverdlov, Ngoc-Thuy Ha, Yu Deng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00556 htt…

Estimands for Randomized Discontinuation Designs in Oncology
Randomized discontinuation design (RDD) is an enrichment strategy commonly used to address limitations of traditional placebo-controlled trials, particularly the ethical concern of prolonged placebo exposure. RDD consists of two phases: an initial open-label phase in which all eligible patients receive the investigational medicinal product (IMP), followed by a double-blind phase in which responders are randomized to continue with the IMP or switch to placebo. This design tests whether the IMP p…

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Semiparametric Weighted Spline Regression (SWSR) in Confirmatory Clinical Trials with Time-Varying Placebo Effects
In confirmatory Phase 3 clinical trials with recruitment over the years, the underlying placebo effect may follow an unknown temporal trend. Taking a clinical trial on Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS) as an example, fluctuations or variabilities are common in HS-related endpoints, mainly due to the natural disease characteristics, variations of evaluation from different physicians, and standard of care evolvement. The adjustment of time-varying placebo effects receives some attention in adaptive c…