Change By Paying Forwards Nine Years Later
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The fate of anyone working to change something in how government works, or
any larger organisation or system really, is that most often you’re not
around t...
Russian Cyberwarfare Documents Leaked
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Now this is interesting:
Thousands of pages of secret documents reveal how Vulkan’s engineers have
worked for Russian military and intelligence agencies ...
NY grand jury indicts Trump!
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Well, it’s happened: our first President to get a criminal indictment. The
headline from the NYT (click to read; there are live updates): A Manhattan
gra...
The Treasury Privatized?
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Geopolitical Economy Hour #6 Posted to youtube 2023.03.25 RADHIKA DESAI:
Hello everyone, and welcome to the sixth Geopolitical Economy Hour, the
fortnigh...
Robots-Took-Most-Jobs Insurance
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I’ve long described the following as the most obviously helpful policy
response to the possibility of advanced AI. But even though I’ve long known
many fol...
Paul Krugman — finally — admits he was wrong!
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from Lars Syll In a recent essay titled “What Economists (Including Me) Got
Wrong About Globalization,” adapted from a forthcoming book on inequality,
Krug...
Nani Iro – Japanese dress project
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I’m in London for the BETT show March 2023 and starting to make a new
project – the Short Sleeved Gathered Dress designed by Nani Iro. Next week
I am headi...
UN’s climate panic is more politics than science
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by Judith Curry I have a new op-ed published in The Australian, here is
the complete text. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has
issued...
The meta-view from meta-nowhere
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Pseudo-objectivity about pseudo-objectivity Jay Rosen coined the phrase
“the view from nowhere” to describe the default stance of political
journalism in t...
Extraordinary measures in extraordinary times
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One measure of the success of a social movement is the extent to which it
creates a ‘commonsense’ that even its ideological opponents get roped into.
That ...
Chemistry and Invariant Theory
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In an alternative history of the world, perhaps quantum mechanics could
have been discovered by chemists following up on the theories of two
mathematicians...
Spring sabbatical update: hibernation in war
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[image: A tuxedo cat looking concerned on front of a burning house.]My cat
Boomy, either caught in an act of arson, or mildly concerned about the
burning. ...
Machines are unbiased, and other bedtime stories
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When we use machine learning for really important things like recruitment
and health, we need to be immensely cautious and rationally sceptical of
the resu...
What Will Transformers Transform?
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Generative Pre-trained Transformer models (GPTs) are now all the rage and
have inspired op-eds being written by everyone from Henry Kissinger (WSJ)
to Noam...
COSN 2023 Resources
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The Case Against Innovation Resources Working with Dr. Stager Gary Stager’s
bio Gary Stager’s recent books Constructing Modern Knowledge 2023 summer
inst...
U.S. Banking System On The Brink
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The collapse of SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) has sent shock waves
throughout the financial world. It has also aroused a morbid sense of deja
vu hark...
UnconsciousModel
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This is a graph of the exponential growth (note the logarithmic ordinate)
of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT taken from here.
As I type these...
Why Write?
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Why write an essay when you can type a few words and have AI generate one
for you? Why write an email when AI can auto-respond for you with all the
typic...
What is ChatGPT?
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ChatGPT is a large-scale language model developed by OpenAI. It uses a deep
learning algorithm called a transformer network to generate human-like
response...
When the Economy Gets Squeezed by Too Little Energy
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When people forecast ever-rising energy prices, they miss the fact that
market fossil fuel prices consider both oil producers and consumers. From
the produ...
A history of the Voyager mission
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It’s rare to find an amateur documentarian that’s really good. I think this
is one of those cases. I was really interested watching “NASA’s Voyager
Mission...
Applying for NSF CAREER: CAREER-Specific Advice
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Now that I’ve shared general advice for how to structure an NSF proposal
and lessons I’ve learned from being an NSF reviewer, I’ll focus on advice
specific...
OpenAI – ChatGPT and Codex – Coding with AI
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“In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in using artificial
intelligence (AI) to improve the way we teach and learn. One promising
applicat...
Strongman Leaders And The Infallibility Trap
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It is easy to become exasperated with liberal democracy. Various factions
bicker and manoeuvre against each other in an endless grubby contest for
power,...
Mars Trilogy: Homesick
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Part of the Mars Trilogy Technical Commentary Series. Contains spoilers for
this chapter and earlier chapters. Google Mars .kml. Literary commentary
podcas...
What if failure is the plan?
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I’ve been thinking a lot about failure lately. Failure comes in many forms,
but I’m especially interested in situations in which people *perceive*
somethin...
Helion Needs You
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Helion has been progressing even faster than I expected and is on pace in
2024 to 1) demonstrate Q > 1 fusion and 2) resolve all questions needed to
desi...
AP CSA
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After 20 years in education at my local elementary school, I have a new
position in the fall at my local high school. I will be their Digital
Learning Spec...
My Formula Fun Car
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I was a Cub Scout in elementary school and participated in several pinewood
derby competions: I even won a third place trophy with one of my designs
and ...
How will the .gov bubble end?
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For the last year, I’ve been referring to being in a .gov bubble—that a
current western economic predicament has similarities to the .com bubble of
2000 al...
Improving FreeDV 2020
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It’s been a few years since FreeDV 2020 was released. On-air experience
suggests FreeDV 2020 is less robust to low SNR and fading than the 700x
modes, whic...
Should Psychology PhD Programs Require the GRE?
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Some colleges are no longer requiring that applicants submit SAT scores (or
they’re making them optional) because scores correlate with parental income
and...
December 13th 2021
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Running Santa! A STEAMJunk project to download and make. Turn the handle
and make the Santa run! All those parcels need delivering, quick!
#STEAMJunk #auto...
Teaching with Amazon Alexa
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Alexa is a voice-activated, cloud-based virtual assistant, similar to Siri
on Apple devices, or Google Assistant. Alexa is an umbrella name for the
cloud-b...
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