Opinion: Practicing Factfulness based on data.
Stephen Wolfram explores the broader picture of what’s going on inside ChatGPT and why it produces meaningful text. Discusses models, training neural nets, embeddings, tokens, transformers, language syntax. Source: What…
When dueling celebrity epidemiologists met social media, a catastrophe occurred: a complete loss of trust in science itself.
Someone mistyped an email address – probably leaving out a middle initial – and it ended up in my in box. This happens often. This email, from a wireless service…
This is what counts as our brilliant technocratic overloads: If only we had been more like China … We did nothing. Like shutdown non-life-threatening health care, prohibiting me from seeing…
She kept her brain injury a secret… until she couldn’t. Source: This Professional Speaker & Auctioneer Couldn’t Talk Her Way Out of Brain Injury Symptoms – The Good Men Project…
“In the wake of that … the military fine-tunes their radar parameters to see more and of course they’re finding more. And you got these three, and they’re unidentified, they’re…
13 Investigates found there are 20,724 fewer students enrolled at HISD now compared to when the pandemic hit, leading to “difficult decisions” ahead. Source: 13 Investigates: Houston ISD faces $60…
I have updated this post with new information – about 1 in 4 US STEM workers were born abroad. In the Seattle area, over 40% were born abroad and over…
These bad think thoughts used to be called conspiracy theories – now they are mainstream Science: * United Nations projections point to the world population peaking at roughly 10.4 billion…
Although the club is not pointing fingers, there are suspicions among other prominent members of the small, pico-ballooning enthusiasts community. Source: Hobby Club’s Missing Balloon Feared Shot Down By USAF…