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Looking forward to getting to Amsterdam tomorrow morning. Can’t wait to meet people for the next three days. Are you there? Reply via Email
In 1934, eight-year-old Helen Priestly sets out from her home in Aberdeen, Scotland, and is never seen alive again.
I know we’ve all done it, lying there stressed about things. Work stuff, decisions, whatever it may be. I also know I’m not alone in going to the worst case...
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In “The rise of the lock-in guy,” I discuss the phenomenon of people who are smart, but this is not evident until later in life, when special circumstances align. It’s not the same as unrecognized genius. Such genius is apparent to...
“The Ultimate Fight ring had not yet been erected on the White House lawn.” The first line of the survey I did for Art in America of museums’ America 250 shows already locks it into a slightly less bleak past, April, when this stupid UFC...
Due tomorrow (June 10): Enter a contest for Alexandre Andorra’s interview of Aki, Richard, and Andrew about their new book Bayesian Workflow. I hope folks ask about evaluating MRP models. We’ve seen: Individual-level Loss(y_i, yhat_i)...
On sleepmaxxing, beef-only diets, political hysteria, and the lost art of being reasonable
Top Chef Carolinas is over, and no spoilers here as I look at the season and the franchise to ask: Is Top Chef deserving of the title of top culinary reality show?
Repugnant. Abby Care — the listing is alphabetical so it sits at the top — “empowers families to deliver exceptional care”. More specifically, it “trains family members to become paid caregivers for loved ones with disabilities or...
Today, AI is being framed as an entity that takes away things: jobs, chips, energy, water, or even creativity. Right as the major labs are about to go public. It has become such a divisive technology. Tech founders and executives love...
I know this is a terrible joke and I don't care. Too tired (and also not smart enough) to come up with something better.95 words · 3 images
Censorship efforts tend to come in fads. Censors get fired up about a new censorship theory and try it out, but the experiment tends to not satisfy them (either because it’s struck down or doesn’t scratch their censorship itch enough)......