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Word I Looked Up Today: tariff
February 5, 2025 at 2:40 AM
"They pick the most dangerous enemy they can find . . . and it's themselves."

🚪🪟👁️ E=mc ⏰ @TheTwilightZone

#TheMonstersAreDueOnMapleStreet
February 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
AI is not perfect, but neither are humans. Still there remains the caution "caveat prompter", not just for pedestrian prompts about ancient history: finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-isn-...
AI isn’t very good at history, new paper finds
OpenAI’s GPT-4, Meta’s Llama, and Google’s Gemini — on historical questions. The benchmark, Hist-LLM, tests the correctness of answers according to the Seshat Global History Databank, a vast database...
finance.yahoo.com
January 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Word I Looked Up Today: labile
January 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
summarily, and with prejudice, blocking any account that posts using the word "Kafkaesque", whether that usage is proper or not. 🥱
December 11, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Permitting me the posthumous conceit of a suggested rewrite to John Lennon's "Imagine", I would add a line about a world WITHOUT social media and without 3 billion voices all speaking at once and without end and all with that ex cathedra slouch replete with hyper convictions about everything. 🪲
December 11, 2024 at 2:29 PM
"and which may augur new physics . . . ."

The universe is not only stranger than we suppose; it is stranger than we can suppose

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
JWST Validates HST Distance Measurements: Selection of Supernova Subsample Explains Differences in JWST Estimates of Local H 0 - IOPscienceSearchopens in new tab
JWST Validates HST Distance Measurements: Selection of Supernova Subsample Explains Differences in JWST Estimates of Local H 0 , Adam G. Riess, Dan Scolnic, Gagandeep S. Anand, Louise Breuval, Stefano...
iopscience.iop.org
December 11, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Word I Looked Up Today: Chrestomathy
December 11, 2024 at 1:48 PM
"Play the man, Master Ridley . . . . "

www.nj.com/politics/202...
N.J. just struck a blow against banning books
It's called the "Freedom to Read Act."
www.nj.com
December 10, 2024 at 10:33 PM