Husband, Dad, Academic. Software "Naturalness", AI4SE & ESE@ UC Davis. MAE, ACM Fellow, Humboldtian. ❤️s Jokes, NJ snark & the outdoors. All opinions Personal.

Davis, CA
Joined June 2009
This a quoted text fragment from @claudeai , when I asked it about weather prediction models. It unexpectedly used a Chinese expression instead of "signal". Very weird. Never seen this behaviour before. Might be of interest to @AnthropicAI
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The show is called "Surface Tension"...Sample Image, of reflections in a glass bowl.
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Quite a stunning and damning plot. Plots relative admission rates into Elite private & public schools, in the US, based on family income, !!*When Controlling for Test Scores*!! Note how much Fairer Public Schools are. (From nber.org/system/files/workin…)
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As per @dinq_io my Google Scholar record indicates that I am my own Best Role Model. Seems appropriate for a durably stubborn, utterly unfocused, refractory old professor who hated any advice he got, and studiously ignored most of his managers/chairs.
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This is really quite interesting: Wholesale Real Time Energy costs in the California Central Valley: around -21$/megawatt hour. It's NEGATIVE. I assume because it's not that hot today, and it's sunny. Storage Tech FTW.
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RE this (old) plot: lower pop density => one-on-one interactions are more difficult, so DISINFORMATION is easier, via radio broadcast media (which is light on facts ) and social media (which favours rage over facts). More DISINFO -> better for the Right.
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Apparently an Islamophobe, like many of your compadres?
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