Photographer Elliott Erwitt 1928-2023
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It was our second week of four in Lucca in July 2015. We were there to
heal. It was very hot, and we had quickly settled into a rhythm of morning
coffee in...
Monday Message Board
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Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please.
Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please. I’m now using
Substac...
Animals get fooled by magic
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Here’s a video that shows, at leaat in some cases, that animals have the
same expectations as we do about movement, and thus are susceptible to
being foole...
Recalibrating Respect
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When the US and USSR came out victorious at the end of WWII, the world
recalibrated its respect. That is, many correctly inferred that this win
contained i...
Seminar on This Week’s Finds
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I wrote 300 issues of a column called This Week’s Finds, where I explained
math and physics. In the fall of 2022 I gave ten talks based on these
columns. I...
Weekend read – The great re-boot. Perhaps.
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from Peter Radford I keep coming upon ideas that seem to make such sense
that, surely, they have been imported into economics. But, no, hubris
prevents an...
Israel and Gaza – holding 3 things at once
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Crimes against humanity committed anywhere by anyone are punishable in the
courts of each State anywhere in the world. Australian Courts could issue
arrest...
More Updates!
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For the many friends who’ve asked me to comment on the OpenAI drama: while
there are many things I can’t say in public, I can say I feel relieved and
happy...
The Dumb Luck of Dollar Hegemony
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Support Michael Hudson’s unique perspective by joining his Patreon group,
where we hold these quarterly discussions. Next is Thurs Dec 7th. Karl:
Welcome...
What is going on with Mars Sample Return?
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As a dubious public service, I humbly offer my translation and light
editorializing to help inform less catastrophic space geeks what is
happening with MSR...
Removing Colour, for a Sick Story
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My Aunty Bunty used to work in a factory in Dundee, in Scotland, with
thousands of other women all adding colour to black and white photographs.
She was ...
What is Loosh?
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Loosh is the opposite of faith. Faith is the refusal to imbibe in loosh.
The act of faithfulness itself involves a deliberate abstention from a
specific se...
Democracy: doing it for ourselves
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Above is the video of a presentation I made at NESTA in London on 15th
November with discussants Claire Mellior and Martin Wolf. I reproduce (AI
generated)...
Running Short of Tailwinds for the Economy
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Strangely enough, the economy seems to move from tailwind to tailwind, as
new resources are discovered, as population expands, and as central banks
figure ...
A bad recipe for science
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by Judith Curry Politically-motivated manufacture of scientific consensus
corrupts the scientific process and leads to poor policy decisions An essay
with ...
Will Gaza War Spark Global Economic Shock?
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Economist Nouriel Roubini has written an article for Project
Syndicate that looks at the probable scenarios for the trajectory of the
Israel-Gaza war...
Jacinta
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVG79xHHu1M A new rightist leader has
stepped up! She evidently has still to learn about the concept pseudoleft!
Harvard, we have a problem
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[I was hoping for this piece to be posted as an op-ed in the Crimson, since
I really want to reach students that are well-intentioned but may not
realize t...
Autonomous Vehicles 2023, Part II
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I was going to write this post later this week filling in
my promised experience from Thursday Oct 19th, 2023, experience of real
fear that I might be invo...
The Screens are the Symptom.
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I decided to re-read Fahrenheit 451 with my eldest this last week. I don’t
think that I have read this classic Bradbury text since high school. What I
had ...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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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