Living on the Real World
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Cramming for my finals, Part 2. High Tension, FDR’s Battle to Power America, by John Riggs.
“A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.” – Will...
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Remedial reading: Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free, by Jed Rakoff.
“But select capable men from all the people—men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain—and appoint them as officials over thousands,...
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Global Change Research for a More Secure World
Earlier this month, Benjamin L. Preston, Hila Levy, Heather Tallis, Rod Schoonover and Jane Lubchenco published an opinion piece in Eos Buzz by this title....
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Climate change, faith… and the Golden Rule.
Generally speaking, our successive thoughts are connected, rather than disjoint; hence, metaphors such as “train of thought” and “stream of...
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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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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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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...
