Tim Knittel • Bourbon Educator & Events
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• Adjunct Professor of Bourbon Studies at Midway University
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• Adjunct Professor of Bourbon Studies at Midway University
• Official Bourbon Ambassador of Churchill Downs
Turning off Memories has made a substantial improvement for me.
August 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Turning off Memories has made a substantial improvement for me.
If a student submitted that to me as their reasoning and answer, I would believe they were thinking. I see nothing here which convinces me the models are using language to world-model and create outputs in any meaningfully way different than I do.
July 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
If a student submitted that to me as their reasoning and answer, I would believe they were thinking. I see nothing here which convinces me the models are using language to world-model and create outputs in any meaningfully way different than I do.
I do not believe that to be correct based upon what I have ready about how they work (mostly via TheZvi) and my own personal experience using them, but I'm open to changing my mind if you can provide evidence to support your claim.
July 18, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I do not believe that to be correct based upon what I have ready about how they work (mostly via TheZvi) and my own personal experience using them, but I'm open to changing my mind if you can provide evidence to support your claim.
I think you have not used current-gen AI with chain-of-thought reasoning models.
July 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I think you have not used current-gen AI with chain-of-thought reasoning models.
That analogy would mean the AI is doing creative writing, not lying.
July 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM
That analogy would mean the AI is doing creative writing, not lying.
This is where the confusion comes in regularly regarding AI. It is not programmed. AI is not 'designed' in the way you are using that word. Describing specific errors as "lying" is easy but wrong, which is why people who understand this better than you do write about it differently than you.
July 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
This is where the confusion comes in regularly regarding AI. It is not programmed. AI is not 'designed' in the way you are using that word. Describing specific errors as "lying" is easy but wrong, which is why people who understand this better than you do write about it differently than you.
But the US is actually 4% of the world population, although middle- and upper-income white people are 15% of the US population …. oh.
June 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
But the US is actually 4% of the world population, although middle- and upper-income white people are 15% of the US population …. oh.
If I’m understanding this correctly, privatizing Social Security would change it from group risk to individual risk, is that correct?
June 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, privatizing Social Security would change it from group risk to individual risk, is that correct?
Making this a candlestick chart would make it even more obvious.
June 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Making this a candlestick chart would make it even more obvious.
Now do the chart showing changes against disposable income.
June 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Now do the chart showing changes against disposable income.
Perhaps it’s because they don’t know they’re broligarchs - they think they’re average bros, just special.
May 21, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Perhaps it’s because they don’t know they’re broligarchs - they think they’re average bros, just special.
What is stopping them from just requesting a 24 hour extension every 24 hours? It seems like the judges are extremely handicapped by this specific need to appear existentially unbiased.
March 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
What is stopping them from just requesting a 24 hour extension every 24 hours? It seems like the judges are extremely handicapped by this specific need to appear existentially unbiased.
I don’t want journalists to tell me two people are arguing about whether it’s raining and report on both sides in an equal and unbiased way. I want them to look out the damn window and tell me what’s actually happening and who is lying about it.
March 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I don’t want journalists to tell me two people are arguing about whether it’s raining and report on both sides in an equal and unbiased way. I want them to look out the damn window and tell me what’s actually happening and who is lying about it.
Thank you for putting succinctly what I have been trying to conceptualize.
February 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Thank you for putting succinctly what I have been trying to conceptualize.
I take credit for that cocktail. Dirty martini, quite good. Photo credit to Hilary.
February 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I take credit for that cocktail. Dirty martini, quite good. Photo credit to Hilary.
Best explanation: bsky.app/profile/carl...
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Best explanation: bsky.app/profile/carl...
Okay, thank you. Previous comments were much lower indirect rates. This makes more sense.
February 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Okay, thank you. Previous comments were much lower indirect rates. This makes more sense.
I was just using that figure because it's a round number, not as a specific measure of a grant. I could have easily used 1MM or 10MM to achieve the same percentages.
February 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I was just using that figure because it's a round number, not as a specific measure of a grant. I could have easily used 1MM or 10MM to achieve the same percentages.
Please help me understand that math. If $100k base-line grant previously had a +50% indirect costs, that's $150k total. Now it's $115k total, which is a ~23% reduction. (I did the math wrong the first time to come to 18%)
February 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Please help me understand that math. If $100k base-line grant previously had a +50% indirect costs, that's $150k total. Now it's $115k total, which is a ~23% reduction. (I did the math wrong the first time to come to 18%)
So if I'm understanding this correctly, this type of federal government-funded research just individually all took ~18% hit?
February 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
So if I'm understanding this correctly, this type of federal government-funded research just individually all took ~18% hit?
Can someone help me understand the implications of this, please?
February 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Can someone help me understand the implications of this, please?
I live in Kentucky. Only 30% of the population here voted for Trump. The 70% of our populationwho did not vote for him is also going to suffer.
February 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I live in Kentucky. Only 30% of the population here voted for Trump. The 70% of our populationwho did not vote for him is also going to suffer.
It could actually happen. We’ll just have to see. 🤷🏻♂️
December 7, 2024 at 11:25 PM
It could actually happen. We’ll just have to see. 🤷🏻♂️