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The comments on my previous post, on recent AI breakthroughs in solving Erdös problems and beyond, must’ve set some sort of record for the number of separate reasons commenters offered me to despair about the future of humanity. All this...
Late, but less than the last two months. This month, my time was split between work, family activities, some poker games, reading, and watching some TV shows. I missed completely my #EuroKino 🎥 watchparties this month. Finally, after...
U.S. media produced countless unthinking headlines and reporting that gave us our current president. More recently, it has been playing into Russia’s hands with bad wording and because of what it chooses to report on. In The Kyiv...
I’m soon to leave my 40s behind and have yet to figure life out. Kids, teens, and other young ones, there’s no rush. No one has things figured out; we’re all making it up as we go along. Also, yes, I used a semicolon; semicolons are cool.
Like the story of a plane crash or bridge collapse you know what’s going to happen. Gravity is going to win in the end, and so it is with Enron. A company that tried to defy the laws of thermodynamics and conjure money from thin air with...
Consider a person who is convicted of a misdemeanor. It is their first offense. Should that person be punished to the full extent of the law, or dealt with more leniently? Depending on one’s prejudices, a theoretical case can be made for...
Lately there has been a lot of talk of how the foundational models are quickly becoming like every other iPhone release. They are ho-hum, till the next one comes around. But it is not the right analogy. I have a more boring, and more...
Traveling to a remote site for work today, got a chance to enjoy the beautiful weather and take a breather.
What if I want prose dense and complicated?