Gratitude: ⁃3 good daughters ⁃Personal liberty ⁃Intact resources ⁃Informed mind ⁃Seasoned experience ⁃A good library ⁃Supportive fam & gf ⁃Fitness at 63 That last is a foundation, a cornerstone, on which everything else sits.

Had to look it up so you don’t have to. Evidently the first leans more towards the tone or sound and the second more towards the content. Anyone w a 3yo knows both

@ClownWorld_ 6 decades of attempts. A few wins here and there

I upgraded to a better beard clipper recently. Didn’t think it’d really matter. Kinda did.

I missed the half-time show. My 22yo had just called from Chicago to talk to me about a very difficult life-decision she’s hashing out. I missed nothing, really. What else am I here for?

@DrFrederickChen I spent 12 years trying to integrate a particular space where quant finance, financial econ, and actuarial sci meet. ChatGPT more or less sucked at that task without some seriously tendentious sequential prompting but then again that’s kinda what I expected. Why would it know it?

@mmay3r The inexorable lean towards the center of distributions is also a loss of uniqueness and interesting edge cases. We can also see this in the uniform-ish looks of “IG models” tho I get the point is about LLMs. It’s extensible tho isn’t it?

@Rainmaker1973 World is a smaller place without him

Just a reminder that in longevity science I’ve heard that no small number of the oldest people we’ve used for our elder stats might have been perpetrating fraud on pension systems by pretending to be an older and dead relative. Not sure about IQ in this equation

Borrowed meme for super-bowl Sunday

@EM_RESUS When my kids were little-ish, every time I needed to look this up, and that was way too often for my taste, it was always “head forward,” so curious where the head-back thing comes from?

@craigbrockie I’m a mere baby at 66 but pulled something like this off in similar ways 58+. I even corresponded briefly w this dude on IG. Basically, yeah, it’s possible to do this kind of thing even at later ages.

@HandyGingerGal Must

@QuintusCurtius Separate your opinion into two parts: economics and nostalgia. One will win

@jeffnemeth Yeah, I spent soooo much time with them in their childhood that — notwithstanding, or maybe because of, my now well deserved solitude in snowy remote MT — I embrace every call for as long as they want to talk

Channeling the memory of the superbowls of my Midwestern past, and totally unrelated to the current game and 💯 ignoring my ex-inlaws WI provenance: if i were to accidentally take a shot of brandy and then Rumple Minze, would I teleport back to 1983 Rhinelander or Madison?

@J_WFarley Was nice. 99% gone.

@bourbonbay Hope mine goes that way in a cpl weeks

@Marloh_R 👋🏼