Charles Hofacker

Someone I know tried to use Jumpspeak for language acquisition. What a miserable user experience. No instructions, and the speech recognition piece simply failed every single time. Dear live human language instructors. Never fear.

The last major reduction in C02 happened due to a massive die off bas.ac.uk/media-post/ant…

"I don’t think it’s AI that’s going to take away your job. It’s the people who know AI and how to use AI effectively that’s going to take away your job." -- Beena Ammanath, quoted in Quartz

Lunar landing today by a private company arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/…

I hate it when that happens arstechnica.com/security/2024/…

Scary timoelliott.com/blog/cartoons

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows or anything else for that matter singularityhub.com/2023/11/16/goo…

"[…] the probability of an event is not a quality of the event itself, but a mere name for the degree of ground which we, or someone else, have for expecting it." -- John Stuart Mill

"It is a crime to spend a million dollars on data collection and then do a five-dollar statistical analysis" -- Andrew Gelman

youtu.be/QVNZRHIZVL8 Generative AI might be a pretty cool way to create stimulus materials for lab studies

Is that the sound of ice cracking? nature.com/articles/d4158…

Google offering 20Gbps Internet service. Now I can download everyone's outrage way faster! arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/1…

No causation without manipulation

[…] the probability of an event is not a quality of the event itself, but a mere name for the degree of ground which we, or someone else, have for expecting it. -- John Stuart Mill

A second Kuiper belt? science.org/content/articl…

"... at Google scale, there are machines, disks, and hard drives failing every minute..." newsletter.devmoh.co/p/how-google-s…

Well OK then techcrunch.com/2023/08/31/x-p…

Fun but long description of why we will continue to see power law distributions in popular culture every.to/p/power-laws-h…

Data analysis is what happens when you are busy making other data analysis plans

A vendor request to clear your cache is some combination of blowing you off and bad software design on their part