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Charles Hofacker @chofack

Teaches marketing analytics and research in the @FSUBiz school @floridastate when not on a #bicycle

Joined November 2007
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Someone I know tried to use Jumpspeak for language acquisition. What a miserable user experience. No instructions, and the speech recognition piece simply failed every single time. Dear live human language instructors. Never fear.
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The last major reduction in C02 happened due to a massive die off bas.ac.uk/media-post/antarct…

Antarctic ice explains dip in CO2 levels - British Antarctic Survey

Small bubbles of air from ice in Antarctica resolve a long-standing debate about why there was a decline in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) during the 16th and 17th centuries.

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"I don’t think it’s AI that’s going to take away your job. It’s the people who know AI and how to use AI effectively that’s going to take away your job." -- Beena Ammanath, quoted in Quartz
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Lunar landing today by a private company arstechnica.com/space/2024/0…

NASA faces a quandary with its audacious lunar cargo program

Failure is now an option at the US space agency.

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I hate it when that happens arstechnica.com/security/202…

A “ridiculously weak” password causes disaster for Spain’s No. 2 mobile carrier

BGP tampering caused by poor security hygiene causes major outage for Orange España.

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Scary timoelliott.com/blog/cartoon…
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You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows or anything else for that matter singularityhub.com/2023/11/1…

Google DeepMind AI Nails Super Accurate 10-Day Weather Forecasts

Google DeepMind researchers say their new GraphCast AI is now the world's most accurate 10-day global weather forecasting system.

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"[…] the probability of an event is not a quality of the event itself, but a mere name for the degree of ground which we, or someone else, have for expecting it." -- John Stuart Mill
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"It is a crime to spend a million dollars on data collection and then do a five-dollar statistical analysis" -- Andrew Gelman
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youtu.be/QVNZRHIZVL8 Generative AI might be a pretty cool way to create stimulus materials for lab studies

Orange - la Compil des Bleues (English version)

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Is that the sound of ice cracking? nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Google offering 20Gbps Internet service. Now I can download everyone's outrage way faster! arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023…

Google Fiber is getting outrageously fast 20Gbps service

For now this is early access, but "most" customers will get upgraded eventually.

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No causation without manipulation
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[…] the probability of an event is not a quality of the event itself, but a mere name for the degree of ground which we, or someone else, have for expecting it. -- John Stuart Mill
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A second Kuiper belt? science.org/content/article/…

Puzzling objects found far beyond Neptune hint at second Kuiper belt

Icy bodies at Solar System’s edge found during target hunt for NASA spacecraft

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"... at Google scale, there are machines, disks, and hard drives failing every minute..." newsletter.devmoh.co/p/how-g…
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Well OK then techcrunch.com/2023/08/31/x-…

X plans to collect users' biometric data, along with education and job history | TechCrunch

X, formerly known as Twitter, will begin collecting users' biometric data, according to its new privacy policy.

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Fun but long description of why we will continue to see power law distributions in popular culture every.to/p/power-laws-have-m…

Power Laws Have More Power Than You Think

Why hits will persist in a world of infinite content

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Data analysis is what happens when you are busy making other data analysis plans
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A vendor request to clear your cache is some combination of blowing you off and bad software design on their part
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