Dec 23, 20245 min read
NEW IN PERU
A team of researchers from Conservation International conducted a survey in the heart of Peru during the summer of 2022. Their rapid...
Dec 23, 20242 min read
HOW THINGS WERE
So many such odd things these days. So many such things and so very odd that it’s hard to differentiate what is normal and what is...
Dec 19, 20243 min read
NOTHING TO SEE
I was perfectly happy to disregard the “drone” reports as media-induced mass panic. And then government officials began assuring the...
Dec 12, 20241 min read
THE OTHER REPLICATION CRISIS
A paper was just quietly published showing several independent large language models, all the latest versions of the big ones from all...
Dec 9, 20242 min read
GREASE FIRES AND PEEPHOLES
CANDISS: But you could be setting fire to things while adding fuel. BARTHALAHMEU: What do you mean? C: Well, you have no information....
Dec 2, 202411 min read
THE BRUNT
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) just published "Women and girls bear the brunt of conflicts..." In the thread...
Dec 1, 20249 min read
ON FISH, BIG AND LITTLE or WHO WILL ROLL THIS MASSIVE STONE?
NOAH: Someone was telling me how the Gospel of Mark, according to Mark, St. Mark the Evangelist, was originally transmitted by itinerant...
