October 24 Open thread.
I should have known the last thread would close. Here’s a new one.
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Happy T-Day Early!
I thought autoclose would happen tonight. But…happened earlier. New open thread.
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Open Thread! Dec 23, 2022
“Coal, No Longer Shunned, Keeps Europe’s Lights on Through Frigid Weather” Merry Christmas, Greta Thunberg! And all Germans. Who saw this coming ( when Merkle closed down the nukes?) Open Thread.
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Open thread: Jan 22!
Open thread. I planned to write something. But I tutor in 2 minutes.
View ArticleFun with ChatGP!
The topic of ChatGP came up in comments a while back. Someone wanted to know if it can do high school physics questions: Answer, not reliably. I heard it can be guided to write stories. Educators and...
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Interviewing ChatGPT: On why it seems to lie and BS.
In comments on a previous post I decided ChatGPT was “BSing”. More correctly, I would say if it were human, certain sequences of interactions would be indistinguishable from lying and BSing. (I think...
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ChatGPT: Confident in its ability to add!
Please add these 10 integers 138 210 991 654 965 227 582 933 478 129 The sum of those integers is 5327. Do you think your answer for the sum is correct? Yes, I am confident that my answer for the sum...
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Open Thread: May 17
Opening a new thread because the old one will close. Today, I will be absorbed trying to help a kid who did not study all semester try to dig himself out of a hole. It’s a intro to thermofluids class....
View ArticleBallroom Dance: Open Thread
I’ll be participating in a competition next week. I’m on pin-and-needles for an odd reason. I don’t have any idea how I am going to do because my doctor diagnosed a physical problem I didn’t suspect....
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Curiouser and Curiouser
In the continued saga of Russia vs. Ukraine: President Vladimir Putin vowed Saturday to defend Russia against an armed rebellion by mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led his troops out of Ukraine...
View ArticleSCOTUS case announced while I was doing my nails…
Supreme Court guts affirmative action in college admissions . I’ll be moving SCOTUS comments here. Update: The ruling here.
View ArticleUpdating for php 8.0
Dreamhost wants us all to update to php 8.0. I put this off because my blog broke in early May and I didn’t have time. I’m now doing housekeeping. The blog works…. but the theme broke. So I will be...
View ArticleFell like and Am, Got up like a pro!
I was at a country competition…. on a move on the back wall, I twirled and fell on my ass….. Got up, told my pro, Just Keep Moving! One of my competitors was standing waiting for her heat and told me I...
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US Dance Championships: Vlad and Brianna.
People asked if I would post opportunities to watch ballroom dance. I plan to post the when there are free livestreams. I’m going to make an exception for the “free” part: The USDC (Dance...
View ArticleNew Open post: Contemplating oversimplified analysis.
The new post will be an open thread… but I’m contemplating a stupid analysis to see what we would “get” if we kinda sort of looked at the “cause effect” relationship in figures like those at Causality...
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Open thread for current events discussion.
I’m putting the discussion that is not about Koutsayannis’s paper here. This is because I want to find some helpful comments as I later do some toy modeling. Migration will happen next.
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Testing latex in anticipation of Toys.
I needed to turn on the latex plugin. I did so. It seems to work: (And equation showed with WP LaTeX.) $$e^{\i \pi} + 1 = 0$$ \(e^{\i \pi} + 1 = 0\) That is almost all. I’m testing symbols, subscripts...
View ArticleOpen Thread Nov 20!
I’ve been busy dancing. (There was a competition last week.) The previous thread self closed. Here’s a new one. I’d say it’s hard to believe this is real. But this is the newly elected president of...
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