Ted Herman @tedherman@social.cleverlibre.org

crypto-scam? https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/09/13/crypto-scam-social-science-thoughts-the-role-of-the-elite-news-media-and-academia/ I love that he calls out Tyler Cowen!

"Your unsubscribe request has been accepted. Please allow 15 years processing before emails stop."

"The panic over faster boarding and the guarantee of an overhead compartment isn’t a bug for the airlines. It’s a feature. Sure, airlines could make boarding better for everyone. But what’s better for the airlines is to make boarding better only for some people. The people who want to give them even more money."

Obviously mathematicians have been optimizing on the wrong metric when it comes to board algorithms.

If Tesla effectively casts or 3d-prints the entire body of a car in one piece, what will that mean for repairability? So far as I know, body repairs and upgrades can't be OTA updates. https://qz.com/tesla-is-experimenting-with-3d-printing-its-car-bodies-1850841660

Crystal clear, eh?

I asked Bard, what is the difference between lessons and learnings? Response:

The main difference between lessons and learnings is that lessons are more specific and measurable, while learnings are more general and abstract.

Lessons are the specific things that we learn from our experiences, both positive and negative. They are often concrete and can be easily identified and articulated. For example, a lesson learned from a failed project might be "Don't underestimate the importance of user testing."

Learnings are the broader insights that we gain from our experiences. They are often more qualitative and difficult to quantify. For example, a learning from the same failed project might be "It's important to be flexible and adaptable when things don't go according to plan."

Another way to think about the difference is that lessons are about what we did, while learnings are about why we did it.

not a fan of football, but hard to pass up a nice spurious correlation

Wasted away, RIP

There's a uptick (increase of occurrence) of this phenomenon: stories or rumors that, when you search for the story, you find a refutation of the story.

"Ramaswamy, by then biotech’s most famous millennial not named Martin Shkreli"

portrait of an anomaly

SuperEgo trucking. https://superegoholding.com/ The logistics of holding and controlling the Id.

"dogs have a unique sensitivity to exaggerated prosody"

Some rude person on the radio played Kylie Pirogue's Padum Padum, prefaced by saying "this will be with you all day". Sadly, this is true.

moral : amoral :: capsize : ?

(this one is tricky)

#Stockfish (I'm only on level 6) just resigned on move 151 presumably because I was a pawn up and didn't take a draw by repetition.

sometimes spam is welcome https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/18/business/maui-fire-spam-hormel/index.html

Human historical GPT: for each era, train only on documents produced in that era. On the X-axis, so to speak, are the GPT-eras, on the Y-axis, the cumulative wisdom of that era. Now plot trends over time.

I never expected AI to automate prudishness.

What is the game-theoretic best time to respond to a doodle poll? Go first? Go last?