Or a right tackle!

My aunt, wondering why I don’t live closer to family: “Couldn’t you just be a philosophy professor at NYU?”

YouTube video by homestarrunnerdotcom Strong Bad Email #210 - Robots

For everyone whose back hurt a little when they woke up this morning, a new strongbad email: m.youtube.com/watch?v=-zhs....

IMO they are getting so much right with enterprise AI that that makes sense but is also completely independent of what’s happening to search.

I cannot believe that this is what my screen looks like when I Google "Yale Psychology." The site I'm obviously looking for is below the fold! They are killing the golden goose!

New paper, co-authored with Donald Martin, Jr. (www.donaldmartinjr.com) forthcoming in System Dynamics Review. We use a synthetic data case study to show how the structural variables studied in system dynamics can help build more robust deep learning pipelines. Preprint: davidbkinney.com/SD_DL.pdf.

A dog on a chair in front of a laptop.

Perfectly happy for her to write my talk for me.

Waxing poetic in the last paragraph of my final lecture notes for formal methods this semester.

Like 25% more Berber migration in the 11th century and these would be standard south of the ankle.

Will anyone recognize the reference or am I truly ancient?

Large swathes of north St. Louis still look like a bomb was dropped on them after a tornado in may.

Time for my extremely pedantic thing. “Football” means a game played on a field *on foot*, as opposed to on horseback. So you have association football, rugby football, American football, Aussie rules football, and so on. Kicking has nothing to do with the etymology.

On a very nervy and scary day, I'm posting something I just wrote for my formal methods class that makes me happy.

‪"The left considers the collective, the right considers each separate individual" is a surprisingly helpful nemonic for sequent calculi.

lfg

Yeah I was in one in 3rd grade and it was great. The teacher taught us about Greek mythology and told us that Zeus was like Bill Clinton. It went a little over my head but it felt like cool adult knowledge that was empowering. Obviously I still remember it.

Ten years ago I tried to pitch a friend who worked in Hollywood on a movie about the gawker saga where hogan would play himself, with Christian Bale as Thiel. I thought it could hulk hogan a best supporting actor Oscar.

Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends.

But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month.

See you soon, NYC.

He’s got the same sauce as young Bill Clinton.

New paper forthcoming in Mind. I argue that outright beliefs can meaningfully simplify credal updating if the objects of those beliefs are dependence relations between propositions and the DAG formed by these relations has bounded treewidth. Preprint: philarchive.org/rec/KINHRB.

One of my wilder belief updates lately, really finding those deep grooves in possibility space.

I was today years old when I learned that Nick Adams is not a satirical character being played on twitter by a comedian. I learned this because he will be ambassador to Malaysia.

I love the idea that there is anything but a negligible number of NYers who would vote for Mamdani (or, indeed, any Democrat) if not for his failure to uphold Columbus as an Italian-American hero. People who like and care about Columbus are Republicans.

They look they’re about to drop the hottest adult contemporary album of 1994.

A foundation model to predict and capture human cognition - Nature A computational model called Centaur, developed by fine-tuning a language model on a huge dataset called Psych-101, can predict and simulate human nature in experiments expressible in natural language...

Centaur is really exciting. As far as I can tell, it seems to have been made possible in large part by German federal funding. Once again, public funding of science gets the goods: www.nature.com/articles/s41....

His ability to rattle off facts and figures with a breezy confidence that makes him seem smart and cool at the same time reminds me of (don't get mad) Bill Clinton in his prime. If the NYC mayoralty wasn't the graveyard of US politics, I'd say rhere's some juice here.

You mean it didn’t autocorrect to MIT?

Everybody wants to be a formal epistemologist, but nobody wants to make these ugly-ass beamer slides.

Paper forthcoming in the 2025 FAccT proceedings! When evaluating algorithms, we often manage a trade-off between accuracy and fairness. I argue that this should be done by via a linear combination of accuracy and fairness measures, for Harsanyi-style reasons: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.08829.

Walt Frazier uses this phrase all the time on the local broadcasts and it’s so weird.