It's pretty gracious of him to show up at all, given that his side lost.
I used to discuss SIT (Sterile Insect Technique) in my undergrad class for controlling screw worm and mediterranean fruit fly. Maybe I shouldn't've stopped.
I teach things that some people consider "theoretical" as opposed to "applied," and many of them think we should only teach subjects that lead directly to a job. I don't make the theoretical v. applied distinction. I teach stuff that has long term value but it's not always immediately obvious.
There are two million people in Paris. One million of them were walking around outside today.
What a coincidence.
Berkeley Workshop in Formal Demography starts in about an hour. Conundrum: coffee, nap, or continue to work on the lecture?
This was a fun experiment. I used 3 athletes from GCOD to ask Claude the Strava questions. I had Claude spin up 3 independent agents each given the simple prompt of here’s the data and here’s the question. lightboxresearch.com/2026/06/05/w...