Perspectives
Remedial reading: AI and faith.
My dad, the statistician, used to lecture my brother and me on the importance of population size. He would say...
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When a Forecaster Issues a Tornado Emergency: Insights from the Front Lines
By Ashton Robinson Cook and Bob Henson The word “emergency” seems tailor-made for a serious tornado threat. It’s a hazard...
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Problem formulation techniques applied to climate change.
Happy Earth Day 2024. Ask people worldwide “is climate change a problem?” and the answer is usually a clear “yes.”...
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AI prompting? Not to worry. The horse is learning to whisper to us.
As discussed in the previous LOTRW post, university computer science curricula nationwide are offering courses in AI-prompting – a new...
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The future belongs to the AI-whisperers – it’s time to be disciplined about your “prompting”!
Animal whisperers are said to: …practice the art of telepathic animal communication. They also use other intuitive gifts to find...
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Pigeon Point Green Flash
By Jan Null As a long-time meteorologist, I have known of and have been watching for the Green Flash whenever...
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Rooting into Plant Hardiness Zone Maps for Blooming Good Gardens
By Chris Vagasky There have been tornadoes in Wisconsin, a major winter storm on the Colorado Front Range, and baseball...
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Daniel Kahneman – and the rest of us: a perspective informed by Ecclesiasticus.
A final postscript on Daniel Kahneman. Last week I had lunch with my economist friend of more than half a...
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End notes on Daniel Kahneman (and a connection to March Madness).
“I criticize; therefore I am.” – (what Descartes might have said if had lived today?) Daniel Kahneman’s brilliant critiques of...
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What’s a thinker to think? What’s a thinker to do?
“Je pense, donc je suis…irrationnel” – (with apologies to both Rene Descartes and Daniel Kahneman) According to Psychology Today, …dreams...
