Thursday, December 29, 2022

The Joys (sic) of Manual Labor

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 Ever since I left the farm, my experience of manual labor has been mostly at my discretion.  That's key.  Even when it isn't, as wh...
Wednesday, December 28, 2022

A Test for "Vertical Farming"

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 Starting to see articles on problems that "vertical farming" enterprises are encountering.  Basically it's energy costs, whi...
Tuesday, December 27, 2022

What Robots Learn From Us

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Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution wrote somethin g, a mere sentence, which impressed me, impressed me so much I misremembered it as "w...
Sunday, December 25, 2022

Merry Christmas

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 Hope you get more than you deserve, as the theology of this day goes. 
Friday, December 23, 2022

Professor Evaluations

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 I follow a fair number of professors on Twitter, mostly historians. I occasionally see tweets complaining about the student evaluations the...
Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Tesla Self-Driving Good Enough for Me

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 I struggled to find the NYTimes article I want to comment from.  Turns out it 's over a month old, on-line, but just published in the ...
Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Tax Returns Public?

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 I feel conflicted about the possible release of Trump's tax returns.  It's a slippery slope; release his and pretty soon you're...
Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Fifth Act--Relying on Connections

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I blogged earlier about  Eliot Ackerman's Fifth Act ,  Thinking about it some more--one thing stands out is the reliance on personal c...
Tuesday, December 13, 2022

The Doomed Quest for Clarity in Government

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 The Senate has passed a bill  to: "expand and update an existing law on plain language requirements for agencies" which is to app...
Monday, December 12, 2022

Looking Ahead to 2024

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 Sen Sinema's switch to being an independent is viewed as a way to avoid a Democratic primary which she would likely lose.  So if she ru...