Balance or both-sidesism
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It’s time for me to have my final say on a dispute with Matt Yglesias that
has been going at a fairly slow pace. A couple of weeks ago, Matt put up a
post ...
Israel: Day 18
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On Wednesday I spent about four hours at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem,
and even that wasn’t long enough to see all the interesting stuff. There
are four ...
New Revelations from the Snowden Documents
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Jake Appelbaum’s PhD thesis contains several new revelations from the
classified NSA documents provided to journalists by Edward Snowden. Nothing
major, ...
Six Reasons Why Corporate Profits Will Fall 50%
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*Should stock valuations track this same decline in profits, it's entirely
reasonable to expect the stock market to lose 2/3 of its valuation premium.
*
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Origins of Woke
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Even his harshest critics seem to agree that Richard Hanania’s great new
book The Origins of Woke, released today, offers the most plausible and
detailed h...
Quantum miscellany
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1. Tomorrow at 1:30pm US Central time, I’ll be doing an online Q&A with Collective[i]
Forecast about quantum computing (probably there will also ...
Australian Electricity Generation – 2023 Update
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by Chris Morris This report brings readers up-to-date with happening in the
Australian generation industry since the previous posts: Australian
Renewables ...
Week Notes 23-37
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After last week’s trip to Portugal with our entire team, this was a regular
week, and the first that our clients were fully back into things as well.
So, m...
Life’s Struggle to Survive
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I’m giving a public talk, the second of my Leverhulme Lectures at the
International Centre for Mathematical Sciences: • Life’s struggle to
survive. Tuesday...
What is Scienter?
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The term ‘scienter’ is used to describe the calculus, awareness, and intent
of a person who undertakes manipulation of another person (or targeted
group) i...
Wellness: Bad Stress: Philosophy – Stoicism
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In a previous post, I mentioned that I started researching wellness a few
months into the pandemic when I noticed my physical and mental health
declining. ...
Spread the WORD – Vote WHY
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Don’t vote *YES* or *NO* to “the Voice” – it only encourages them.
Both sides have offered no PLAUSIBLE argument for voting either way. Each
merely hopes...
My office “pet”
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I have a first-floor office by a large window. On the outside of the window
is a wide ledge. And a few weeks ago, a couple of pigeons started
assembling a ...
A quiet sabbatical
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[image: Amy holding her smartphone in front of a round mirror, with a print
of a woman in sunglasses with red lipstick and colorful tiger wallpaper.]I
spen...
Fossil Fuel Imports Are Already Constrained
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The big question for any fuel is, "Can consumers afford to pay a high
enough price to cover all the costs involved in getting the fuel from
endpoint to end...
You Should Be Working On Hardware
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Or, why Elon Musk’s impossible hardware businesses have succeeded. “Why
should I work on hardware???” I hear you cry. Not because I work on
hardware, and I...
Reflections on “Making the Atomic Bomb”
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[Cross posted on lesswrong; see here for my prior writings] [it appears
almost certain that in the immediate future, it would be] possible to set
up a nuc...
Still Trying to Ignore the Metaverse
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Perhaps surprisingly, I don’t particularly like technology. And certainly
not technology for technology’s sake. My brother was always the one who
picked up...
CMK23
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Constructing Modern Knowledge returned to Manchester, New Hampshire this
summer and it was awesome! I posted a Twitter thread but Gary badgered me
to ex...
CSP 22-23 Year in Review
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I just finished my first year teaching Computer Science Principles at my
local high school and it’s time to reflect on the year and celebrate some
of the o...
Languages for Learning
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As recommended and used at Constructing Modern Knowledge Language Use URL
Turtle Art 2D art and Logo geometry – also exports SVG files. Great first
progr...
Theory
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUJsOfP7MHI There is a BUT that follows my
‘throat clearing remarks’ that are otherwise in furious agreement. Much of
this ...
The Problem With Stories
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Human minds run on stories, in which things happen for human meaningful
reasons. But the actual world is not human centred. It runs on causal
processes t...
Buying US Debt Subsidizes Imperialism
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Michael Hudson | A piece of advice: Buying U.S. debt is to provide
ammunition for U.S. military expansion Source: Observer Network 2023-06-01
08:01 The J...
What I’ve been doing
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It was gratifying to listen to James Lindsay share his thoughts about the
knowledge era we’re leaving, and the one we’re hopefully entering, because
it hel...
40 Inspirational Paulo Coelho Quotes On Success
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A s 1. “It takes huge effort to free yourself from memory.” Paulo Coelho
2. “No one can lie, no one can hide anything when he looks directly into
someone’s...
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...
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...
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...
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