Carl T. Bergstrom
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Carl T. Bergstrom
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Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute

I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.

Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b

LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com

Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk

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Carl Theodore Bergstrom is a theoretical and evolutionary biologist and a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, United States. Bergstrom is a critic of low-quality or misleading scientific research. He is the co-author of a book on misinformation called Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World and teaches a class by the same name at University of Washington. .. more

Biology 21%
Mathematics 20%
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Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?

Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.

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What a glorious photograph!

Excellent beer. Love to get one of those every time I'm back on the East Coast.

iykyk

Season's greetings to all.

Here's Borges, interviewed by William F Buckley.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNxz...

I can't venture to compare the expressiveness of English and Spanish, but I love Jorge Luis Borges's observations about how a skilled writer will use English's two distinct registers — the Germanic and the Latinate — to convey shades of meaning.
Is English Better Than Spanish?
This article was originally published here: https://tribunamag.com/tribuna/2016/6/26/is-english-better-than-spanish
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Absolutely! Not in LinkedIn, so you're good.

I love this! Great pic too.

dudes all in my dm's like don't be coy tell us who

seriously you think imma let you steal them???
Best explanation of the liar's dividend that I've ever seen.
Anyone else have a coauthor who is so much fun to write with that you just find yourself grinning in some combination of satisfaction and pride as you edit a manuscript?

If not, get yourself one.

TIL the Fitzroy Lions went under in 1996. Horrified.

Bored Rat Yacht Club in 5-4-3....

Goddamn I'm going to need more than one more pie.

Here in the states, "youse" is standard south Boston dialect so I feel entitled to appropriate it.

I've been reading Helen Garner's _Monkey Grip_.

Oooh. Scotch ale is an interesting idea.

Wow Hobart doesn't f around does it?

Youse are supposed to be having summer there I read on the internet.

I'd be surprised if the esters work, but the cool thing is the surprises. Worth adding to the experiment.

Dark star is an imperial stout; I'll grant you Pelican and Otis.

ESB is an interesting idea. TBH I led with an local ESB and it didn't hit the mark but Fullers or something might land differently.

I was thinking about that one. Or maybe even Samichlaus.

Of course!

Unless "Applied prompt engineering bootcamp" counts as a CS course, yeah for sure.

Sour cherries, double crust, no accoutrements.

Preliminary report: not overwhelmed by the pairing with a classic c-hopped PacNW IPA.

Though even within that category there remains a lot of variation.

Because there happens to be one in the fridge, I'll try with the brown ale from Machine House, best English brewery I know of on this coast. Their brown ale (as a US interpretation) is brilliant.

I'm really curious about that one. Will definitely try, but maybe not on this pie. Most of my remaining lambics are pretty much special occasion beers.

The answers here are so wildly spread across the map that they give me an excuse to get another cherry pie.

Not too close at all. I just don't want the 10% abv and sweetness of so many US imperial stouts.

The Poet: Never had it but ti sounds really good. New Holland brews some great beers but they don't distribute here. I'll try it next chance back in Michigan or thereabouts.

I'm liking the sound of black lager. Probably have to give that a try.