Back home.

This is (in part) why you’ll have to pry vi out of my cold, dead hands.

Serious question. Someone check my Gell-Mann amnesia. Has RadioLab always peddled in fringe hypotheses or is this new/uncommon?

Nevertheless, it’s pretty neat because it also gives reference citations that are sometimes on point.

Compare that with “can we think of a vector space as a group ring?” I asked.

“A vector space can be considered as a special type of group ring…” it replied.

“Is a vector space a group ring?” I asked.

“No”, it said.

Amusingly, it’s answering as if I was looking for iff, rather than inclusion.

Google’s AI assistant is pretty good at basic math questions, but does seem to have trouble inferring specific cases from general rules (which is an interesting point of failure from the perspective of “general intelligence “). For example I asked it the same question two different ways:

Good running weather today.

Back in the Gallatin.

In case you’re weren’t feeling old enough, I just saw Tony Hawk in a commercial for CoQ10.

quote with a picture of water that you took.

Give it time. 😅

A starter pack, but it’s a collection of books.

That style, on the other hand, is regrettably commonplace.

They sure don’t write them like that any more!

Hah! NNTaleb. His work mostly rips economists, finance and social science types for making the independent, identically distributed assumptions inappropriately.

Fun! Although you may be inviting trouble with a certain well-known probability professional / philosopher. 😅

Ten years later, worth revisiting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo5c...

With respect, we’re lucky enough get milk from cows who live just a bit down the road and the difference is very noticeable.

Ag at scale already diminishes the product in a tragic way. Same is true for tomatoes, etc.

Big shout out to the folks writing SciComm pieces that aren't directly related to recent publications. Y'all get it.

Before. During. After.

Can’t tell the whole truth in 90s.

No time for fun yet but please enjoy our neighborhood River whilst I get back to work…..

I’m back, nerds!