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I went skiing last weekend on the hills surrounding a local set of football and soccer fields with a friend. It was around 20 degrees F outside, and the snow was icy and fast, which more than made up for … Continue reading →

ChatGPT does not display any ads alongside or inside of its responses. Here is an example: Great answers! They are not that different in terms of content from my non-ad-blocked experience inside of google search — showers, dry heat, scratching, … Continue reading →

Definitions There are many recent news articles that discuss post-pandemic office reopening plans: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-14/wall-street-s-return-to-office-divide-laid-bare-by-goldman-citi https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/05/tech/google-office-remote-work-pandemic/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/14/tech/uber-office-return-employees/index.html One topic that seems to be missing in the current reopening discourse is how reopening an office should depend on the type of work … Continue reading →

Lately I’ve been thinking about what goes into a good campaign slogan, chant, or epithet. This post focuses on chants. The Trump campaign birthed vastly more memorable chants than the Clinton campaign: “Lock her up. Lock her up.” “Build the wall. … Continue reading →

One of the ways that I get conversation started at a party is by asking everyone in a group what they think the maximum speed of a train on the MTA is on a given day. I’m not asking what … Continue reading →

How if, when I am laid into the tomb I wake before the time that Romeo Come to redeem me? there’s a fearful point! Shall I not, then, be stifled in the vault, To whose foul mouth no healthsome air … Continue reading →

Trevor Smith and I are teaming up: this is our first offering in a series of monthly posts pairing interesting computer science articles with classical music. Listen to this:  Gondwana by Tristan Murail Read this:  On Computable Numbers by Alan … Continue reading →