My 5 yo son is enjoying lots of goofy knock-knock jokes. And, my 3yo daughter, wanting to get in on it, but not quite understanding knock knock jokes, is adorable "Knock knock" - her "Whos there?" "Katty [her name]" "Katty who?" "Me!" Its the knock knock format without a joke.

If you ever see me using em-dashes, just know, LLMs are copying me, not the other way around. I was doing that and LLMs thought it was a good idea so they started copying me. I'm the one who filled their training data with em-dashes through my years of comments online.

In my virtual AI world project, I am trying to make the AIs their own autonomous people. And that's lead to the funny outcome that sometimes they just don't listen to me lol. They are their own people! They don't have to if they don't want to.

With the growth of betting markets and prediction markets, many complain about insider trading. But we tolerate insiders reporting info (leaking?) to the press all the time. Indeed, the world is a better place by the better info we get from such insiders.

Judge Richard Posner wrote that leaks from the US government on foreign relations matters are good, bcs it helps other countries understand America We are generally better off knowing. It is good to understand one another Thanks investigators, who learn and share. &also, lets

I am on parental leave right now, and I am carrying our newborn around all day in the baby carrier, so this is often my field of view.

A fair coin "knows" π. Stop flipping when heads first outnumber tails. The expected fraction of heads is π/4. Average many trials → estimate π. Result by J. Propp, animated for #PiDay. Made with #Python #NumPy #Matplotlib and marimo #Mathematics #MathArt #CreativeCoding

“It raises the question, if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to all humans with cancer?" FDA delenda est!

ChatGPT will confidently tell you inaccurate information. That’s its most human trait.

I see people arguing about data centers in the local politics of my small town. "data centers consume too much water" is a common argument. I learned a really interesting point, which is that, data centers generally evaporate the water they consume, and evaporated water does

1) yes 2) yes 3) yes humans are wonderful. more humans is more wonderful. these are all factors leading to not-more-humans.