www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

A picture of this can be found on p. 47 here: archive.org/details/idea...

I also recommend the 1st-place essay, about treating Google as God. Relevant still for these AI times.

Having been a Latin tutor in college (which was wildly lucrative!), I can say that high Latin was not so very high. It was an evolution of what came before it. We inevitably evolve and ebb and flow, so the best thing we can learn to do is swim, build boats, get snorkels... i.e., make the best of it.

A little cranky😜but I understand. I don't personally need AI to write for me—I'm a science editor/writer. But many people in the sciences, esp. international folks, haven't had that privilege. In the slides, you'll see I still advocate for the development of our own neural networks, our brains.

My colleague Jeremy Smith put this video together. The camera appears blue at the start of the night shift, when it's hot, then cools down to black through the night. We're in Milliard County but can see the fire happening in Sevier County. #Utah
youtu.be/3Ckt-iul87U

Update on the Monroe Canyon Fire: app.watchduty.org/i/55641

Seeing this map of the Western U.S. makes me want to join a fire department. If you are able to, volunteer in some way! Rather than getting fired up at your neighbor on Facebook, we can put out literal fires in an increasingly hot world.🧪

I do! I am honored to do it. But our NSF funding soon ends. 😞 The ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays we are looking for have more energy than anything CERN or anyone else has ever produced. We still don't know with any statistical certainty where they come from or how they are produced.

www.ksl.com/article/5134...

Hey, thanks! It is no small gift to read through anything these days.