Human Trust of AI Agents
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Interesting research: “Humans expect rationality and cooperation from LLM
opponents in strategic games.”
*Abstract:* As Large Language Models (LLMs) inte...
College Graduates Are Losing the Clone War
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*College grads, it may be time for different approach, not just in getting
a job but in life. *
*If we scrape away the hype and the humbug, this is the co...
Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ a rock in a box
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Today’s Jesus and Mo strip, called “rock2“, comes with a note that says
this: “An oldie from 2006 today. Next week’s will also be a resurrection.”
The arti...
How many babies do we want: how many will we have?
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Among other things, the unlamented former autocrat Viktor Orban was one of
the leading proponents of pro-natalist policies, and more open than most
about t...
The Oil Grab Doctrine
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A deep dive into how oil control, sanctions, and financial fragility are
converging, as energy disruptions, debt structures, and geopolitical
strategy pu...
Feldspars
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Returning from a trip to New Mexico to explore some Puebloan ruins, I
picked up this beautiful chunk of labradorite in the town of Quartzsite.
This miner...
Manipulating My E-Books
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Earlier this week I started reading an ebook and was a bit irritated
because the book did not show me a table of contents. This seems to be a
regular thing...
Mario Harik: Playing to Win
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How does one engineer run 40,000 people with 10 daily numbers, zero
hobbies, and a $1 billion bet he made in his first year as CEO? Mario Harik
is the CE...
Before we start on quantum
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Imagine that every week for twenty years, people message you asking you to
comment on the latest wolf sighting, and every week you have to tell them:
I hav...
Retracing steps
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This is sort of a follow-up to the My journey series. In that, I talked
about learning programming on 8-bit computers, and progressing onto much
more power...
A day at the University of Minnesota
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[image: Brick buildings on the left and right, a handful of students
walking down a pathway, and blue skies.]A sunny Monday at UMN.
Last Fall, I was once a...
Spring 2026 PCAS Update: Recruiting a new Lecturer
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My last update on the University of Michigan’s Program in Computing for the
Arts and Sciences (PCAS) was in March 2024 (see post here). I did give some
upd...
Garmin watch faces
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I have recently been using Claude Code (Opus 4.6) to do a variety of
software projects. One was the completion of an ill-fated attempt to create
a custom w...
Rethinking climate change
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by Nicola Scafetta My new book is now published: The Frontier of Climate
Science: Solar Variability, Natural Cycles and Model Uncertainty For more
than t...
ANALYSIS OF THE UKRAINE WAR, 2026
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Bill Kerr Q&A format: What is the situation on the battlefield? The
situation changes everyday. To keep up to date follow some of the links
here to regular...
Predictions Scorecard, 2026 January 01
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Nothing is ever as good as it first seems and nothing is ever as bad as it
first seems. — A best memory paraphrase of advice given to me by Vice
Admiral Jo...
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