Thursday, March 9, 2023

We need to talk about tests (in the "I got an A" sense, not the RCT sense)

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We are hearing all sorts of hype about large language models passing various exams , but before we can have that conversation, we need to ha...
Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Seems like a good time to revisit IBM's war on cancer

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We provided mental health support to about 4,000 people — using 2nd-hand Furbies. Here’s what happened — Mark Palko (@MarkPalko1) March 4, ...
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Tuesday, March 7, 2023

An interesting piece of housing history

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70,000 mail-order homes between 1908 and 1940. Some enthusiasts estimate that about 70% of Sears houses are still standing today. Sears pro...
Monday, March 6, 2023

A human knight/knave puzzle

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In real life, very few people are wrong reliably enough to be useful. You get people who are basically coin flips and others who are wrong m...
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Friday, March 3, 2023

Law and order

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This is Joseph. You need to read the responses to these tweets by Matt Yglesias to believe them : Even the Libertarians get why this is a pr...
Thursday, March 2, 2023

Thursday Tweets -- You can take the boy out of South Africa...

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Sometimes in life, you just have to take a stand on the things you really believe in. Like racial segregation. https://t.co/Zr6yRYmfK6 — Ro...
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

It always feels reassuring when Josh Marshall agrees with you

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Kilmeade desperately trying to find someone in a FL diner who wants Desantis for president. It doesn’t go well. pic.twitter.com/IxJPYa9lVF —...
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

From the large language model joke book

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Smith College economist James Miller has a great example of a ChatGPT answer that looks pretty good until you drill down.    
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Monday, February 27, 2023

A modest defense of YIMBY

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This is Joseph Some of the best discourses on the blog are cases where Mark and I disagree. I need to give him a big win on the last iterati...
Friday, February 24, 2023

When watching YouTube can make smarter

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I'm not making a general claim. Most of the videos you'll find on the platform won't do anything for your intellect and more tha...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

Senator Rick Scott and Simple Solutions

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This is Joseph. One of the most pernicious mistakes that I see if the common fallacy that complex problems can be solved by a simple solutio...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2023

More SoCal Weather

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 We're having quite a year. Blizzard warning issued for SoCal mountains, with snow also expected at unusually low elevations LOS ANGELES...
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Tuesday Tweets -- Hype and Glory

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We start with a reminder that much of the world's trouble is caused by profoundly damaged people who desperately want attention. I sure...
Monday, February 20, 2023

Small update on Sinema

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This is Joseph. We've been interested in the Krysten Sinema story from a game theory perspective -- was it a brilliant move to go indepe...
Friday, February 17, 2023

One more rant on the libertarian idea of children

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This is Joseph. There has been a lot of angst about global fertility rates, recently . I always find it ironic when these complaints come fr...
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