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Pete Wung The Curious Polymath
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I am curious and training to be a polymath. I love engineering, volleyball, mathematics, philosophy, coaching, cognitive sciences, reading, how humans make decisions, and other things. I am a Fox, not a Hedgehog.
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December 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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When Friends Become Lovers: H.G. Wells on Navigating Blurring Boundaries
Relationships are the great creative work of our lives. They are, like every creative endeavor, a process demanding both systematic intentionality and surrender. If we show up for that process with…
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December 26, 2025
On Tuesday, December 23, the U.S.
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December 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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#AI
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How to Spot AI Hallucinations Like a Reference Librarian
The verification tricks that would make fact-checkers weep with joy.
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December 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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#AI
Sobering.
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AI is confident. That doesn’t mean it’s right. We often assume that if an AI has access to the live internet, it stops hallucinating. The data proves the opposite. I analyzed the latest… | Julia Da...
AI is confident. That doesn’t mean it’s right. We often assume that if an AI has access to the live internet, it stops hallucinating. The data proves the opposite. I analyzed the latest hallucinati...
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December 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Gary Marcus explains, very well, how we ended up with a $3trillion waste of money on AI. But he doesn’t explain why. WHY is about 2008. The central banks bailed out the financial system by purchasi...
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The defiance of Ludwig van Beethoven and his "Ode to Joy"
He was a composer of extraordinary gifts, but he had to overcome a lifetime of maladies – including hearing loss – to compose his masterwork: the Ninth Symphony, with its optimistic final movement.
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December 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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December 25, 2025
The modern version of Santa Claus arrived in the United States in 1863, when he stopped at an army camp of Union soldiers in the January 3 issue of Harper’s Weekly. Cartoonist Thomas Nast drew Santa w...
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December 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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“New Ways to Corrupt LLMs”
The wacky things statistical-correlation machine like LLMs do – and how they might get us killed
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December 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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There's a Reason Women Aren't Swooning Over AI Like Men Are
Or rather, a great many reasons
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December 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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What are you reading today?
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