Another quick one while I continue my recuperatory week of doing as little as possible. I recently got to see a fascinating sequence of...

I went to an incredible talk this week by a renowned  optimizer in AI spaces. He’s worked on everything from power grids to e-commerce...

Hey, sorry for the late post, had to give a talk this morning! I’ve written a bit  about QALYs  here before, or Quality-Adjusted Life...

This week, I sat in on a graduate-level computer science class. The instructor asked under what conditions humans and AI would be...

If you had  to summarize a statistical distribution with one number…well, I guess you could do worse than taking an average. Even so,...

Here’s a reasonably sophisticated argument. (I’m not  saying that it’s right.) Trust the Process means, care about process over actual...

Do you know how coffees get scored? Here’s a sample espresso cupping form: Let’s talk survey methodology . This form is part of a...

Hi I’m a four-year-old child learning 8 new words every day. So help me out: What’s a chef? Uhh…a chef is someone who cooks food. Oh...

When you go to the hospital, we rarely have the resources to treat everyone as promptly and thoroughly as we’d like. So we have to make...

Next month, I’m giving a talk at the University of Kentucky Esports Lounge (yes, really) about rethinking the place of rules in the...

Last week, I was sick as a dog and downright loopy. What a perfect time to be invited to an APA Panel on AI ethics! Fortunately, I...

I’ve been working hard to get clear on the differences between quantitative and qualitative values lately. Here’s an example: If I want...

My friend Kjell and I noticed there just aren’t enough podcasts, so we decided to help. Our first episode takes an early look at some of...

So here’s the mind-blowing keynote for Who’s Responsible for ChatGPT? Apparently I have a very expressive face. Anyway, I’ll give you a...

Here’s some chess jargon: pawns aren’t pieces. Your king, queen, rooks, bishops, and knights are all pieces. But your pawns are just...