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Friday, February 13, 2026

Friday Fotos: Some trees in winter

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Thursday, February 12, 2026

Claude's constitution and other matters AI

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Ross Douthat, Is Claude Coding Us Into Irrelevance? NYTimes , 2.12.26. Are the lords of artificial intelligence on the side of the hum...
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Two by Stan Getz: Focus and Voices

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Note: Each video links to the first selection in a play-list that links to the whole album, one cut after the other. Focus Wikipe...

Where's the beef?

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Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Séb Krier needs to rethink. Next-token prediction is, at best, a misleading explanation of LLM response to prompts.

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I like Séb Krier. Never met him, but, courtesy of Tyler Cowen over at Marginal Revolution, I’ve read a number of his long comments on the si...
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The train shed a Liberty State Park as you've never seen it

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Pssst. Look behind the ballerinas.
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Toward a Biophysics of Poetry

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My long-term interest in Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” (KK) is shadowed by an interest in “This Line-Tree Bower My Prison,” (LTB) which is one o...
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The sun, the sun!

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Large Language Model Reasoning Failures

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Peiyang Song, Pengrui Han, Noah Goodman, Large Language Model Reasoning Failures, arXiv:2602.06176v1 [cs.AI] https://doi.org/10.48550/a...
Monday, February 9, 2026

MAGA and its myth of a pristine past

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Andrew O'Hehir, MAGA’s war on “woke” has a long history — like 400 years , Salon , Febrary 8, 2026. The opening paragraph: One ex...

Ice, ice, baby. Ice on the Hudson.

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Terminology: Generative Machines, Epistemic Structure of the Cosmos, Intelligence-Complete

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I’ve been spending a lot of time with my chatbots, ChatGPT and Claude, and some terminological issues have come. Noting particularly deep, ...

Wuthering Heights at New savanna

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As we've got a new Wuthering Heights movie coming to town this weekend I thought I'd publish a post linking to the various posts...
Sunday, February 8, 2026

Three vehicles

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Cultural Ranks Revisited: From Stages to Dynamics

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This post is by ChatGPT and summarizes a discussion we had about cultural ranks. * * * * * Cultural Rank Theory, as David Hays and I ...

Bald eagles on the Hudson

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Eagles on the Hudson🦅 Bald eagles are on the ice on the Hudson River during winter primarily to hunt for fish and conserve energy. I was fo...