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Despite its uselessness, homeopathy persists
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Homeopathy is one of the biggest scams I know of. The products have no
curative properties and yet people spend billions on them. And, as Dara
O’Briiain s...
Do Polymath LLMs Love Big Brother?
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In Orwell’s novel 1984, protagonist Winston is beaten down by his
totalitarian state, eventually so far into submission that he honestly
embraces state cla...
AI Use by the US Government
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On 14 April, the Trump administration quietly acknowledged the widespread
use of AI to automate government processes. The office of management and
budget...
Call for workshop proposals: FOCS 2026
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[Guest post by Sam Hopkins] We invite groups of interested researchers to
submit workshop proposals for FOCS 2026 by July 31, 2026. The FOCS 2026
workshops...
Krugman on Trump’s 80th birthday party
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from Paul Krugman’s blog On Sunday Donald Trump celebrated his 80th
birthday with a cage match on the White House lawn. The match and the
events that surro...
An academic year aburst
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[image: An orange and blue sunset against the Puget Sound.]The sunset in
Edmonds, WA, late summer 2025.
It’s the first Monday after the end of my 2025–26 a...
Fable and Mythos: Model Welfare
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Fable and Mythos are currently unavailable, but likely will return within a
few weeks. I will continue to cover that fiasco, but in the meantime I will
als...
Octonions and the Standard Model
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Paul Schwahn and I have come out with a new paper about octonions and the
Standard Model: • The Standard Model gauge group from the exceptional
Jordan alge...
The Limits of Empire
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Nima Alkhorshid: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, June 11th, 2026, and our
dear friends, Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson, are here with us. Welcome
bac...
Monday Message Board
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Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion
and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the
sandpits,...
iTunes extension for Scratch
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In this post, I want to share a new Scratch extension I made today. It uses
the iTunes Search API to let you search for songs, and play 30 second
previews ...
Zeg DOEI! tegen Big Tech
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Het is DOEI! Dag, de eerste zondag van de maand om mezelf en anderen aan te
moedigen weer een stapje te zetten weg van BigTech. Stap je mee? Blogpost:
On hope
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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 separa...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Some thoughts about Bondi
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Why did it happen? I think that the combination of four factors (listed
below) was close to a sufficient cause. Sufficient at least to make a
terrorist att...
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