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Happy Halloween!

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@scottalister I’m not saying companies have to share my politics. But when you have a history of making endorsements and then offer this as your reason to stop …

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That’s an unforgivable level of disingenuousness.

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Billionaire shenanigans yet again remind me it’s better not to rely on their platforms.

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001 Not-so-random samples from the Stochastics Lab: scottalister.micro.blog

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The Great Gatsby curve : scottalister.micro.blog

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When visualizing data tells the story better than words, but the words are pretty good too

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When I forget to mention that opinions expressed are purely my own

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Not seeing much of Academic Twitter on Threads yet. My guess is that it’s because we all studiously hid our Instagrams from each other, hoping to avoid admitting there were times we weren’t working

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Is anyone clear on how “fob” made it to standard usage? Is it just that we needed a synonym for “key” but we weren’t willing to accept more than three letters?

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Outer space is inner space!

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A fun editorial from an astrophysicist on the recent gravitational waves discovery

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Nice NYT article on AI and mathematics.

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As impressive as natural language models are (ChatGPT, etc), it seems that a conceptual leap in design will be necessary before we see anything that looks like robust reasoning.

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@maique this is a beautiful sequence

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Saturday morning, Uptown

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Life in New Orleans, vignette 5836:\nFueled up at a gas station where they hired a security guard due to carjackings. He’s walking around chatting up all the drivers while they fuel up, smoking a cigarette

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Celebrating solstice ☀️

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Sliding into the driver’s seat of a rental car: step one, override the presets with NPR and community radio.

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They need to change this from Andrew to Mahalia Jackson … but still it’s beautiful to see on the rare nights I can get out

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Not so trusty after all!

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So, am I really supposed to believe that one of Trump’s lawyers is named James Trusty?

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(And yes, I did start up an entirely new account on a new microblogging service just so I could start broadcasting stuff like this again.)

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Well … in the post-Twitter era I’ve moved through Mastodon (with a server that shut down and deleted my whole history … of “toots” … really?) and post.news. I’m all-in on Artifact for reading news, but still I wrestle with the compulsion to write and share. Let’s see how this one goes.

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