I hope everybody is OK in L.A.? Especially Russ ? The news do not sound
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On 1/8/25 10:39 AM, glen wrote:
Yeah, this is the problem with narrative. And the source of my
complaint against science communicators like Huberman (and to some
extent Hossenfelder, less so Collier and Farina). Even deeper, the
source of my complaint against narrativity lies in my problem wit
Jochen -
I grew up in a Forest Service household in NM and AZ where my father had
a "fire radio" in the dining room (in a nook with a sliding door) which
ran 24/7 during the fire season. It was a very remote area (on the edge
of the first designated US wilderness areas, and one of the first U
I fear it will get worse now every year. More and bigger wildfires in
California. Higher temperatures and less rain.If Kamala would have elected
there would have been wildfires as well but at least some hope that steps will
be taken to protect the climate. Under a new Trump administration I see
In California, insurers are busy cancelling homeowner policies.It’s common.
My uncle in the Oakland hills had to quick find another insurer.
This is a bad time to entertain the temper tantrums of no information voters.
From: Friam On Behalf Of Jochen Fromm
Sent: Wednesday, January
Yeah, this is the problem with narrative. And the source of my complaint
against science communicators like Huberman (and to some extent Hossenfelder,
less so Collier and Farina). Even deeper, the source of my complaint against
narrativity lies in my problem with visualization, projection, and
Russ??? Please check in.
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On Wed, Jan 8, 2025 at 5:18 AM Jochen Fromm wrote:
> I hope everybody is OK in L.A.? Especially Russ ? The news do not sound
> good
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> https://www.npr.org/2025/01/07/g-s1-41408/pacific-palisades-fire-wind-california
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> -J.
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A good friend who grew up in Pacific Palisades recently moved his
elderly parents to an assisted living.
As it unfolds, they are on the very edge of the acutely threatened zone,
holding on for evacuation orders (at least the facility will
"facilitate" that as it would not have been reasonable
Why language models collapse when trained on recursively generated text
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14872
Without doing more than scanning this doc, I am lead to wonder at just
what the collective human knowledge base (noosphere?) is if not a
recursively generated text? An obvious answer is t
Glen, your timing on these articles was perfect. Just yesterday I was having a
conversation with a computational chemist (but more general polymath) about the
degradation of content from recursively-generated data, and asking him for
review material on quantifying that.
But to Steve’s point be
Thanks for your concern, Jochen. We live in Culver City, which is just
south of Beverly Hills. Geographically, it seems to be somewhat protected
from the winds. Our max wind hasn't been above 20mph--which still seems
quite strong!
When I got out of bed this morning, the sky was very smokey. I wore
Culver City is close to the Palisades fire, right? I hope you do not have to
evacuate. Do you use a warning app like WatchDuty?
https://www.watchduty.org/Here in Germany we have a similar app named Katwarn
which works well.https://www.katwarn.de/en/-J.
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