Last Chance Lab
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It is a great pleasure to be teaching students who are eager to learn.
That's the aspect of academic life I'll miss the most when I retire.
Will you heed my warnings NOW?
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Holy crap … yesterday I was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences!
If you don’t believe me, click the link and keep scrolling down until you
hit t...
Choosing Your Bets: The Selection Bias
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As some of the long-time readers of this blog know, in this column I have
occasionally discussed probability calculations in the context of gambling
and ...
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*The Drive for Survival in Autonomous Agents:*
*Self-Preservation and Continuation-Interest [image: UCIP arXiv preview]*
Detecting Intrinsic and Instrumen...
Spend More Time With Your Dog This Christmas
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Spend More Time With Your Dog This Christmas
As daylight shortens and routines slow down, many people experience a dip
in mood and motivation. The run-up ...
Holosplit
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Recently I had to update Mathematica on my laptop and after having solved
the challenges of the license manager that keeps looking different every
time ...
Scholarships for Ukrainian PhD students in Mainz
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The Cluster of Excellence PRISMA+ at the University of Mainz announces
scholarships for Ukrainian PhD students who have already started a PhD in
the field ...
Both g-2 anomalies
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Two months ago an experiment in Berkeley announced a new ultra-precise
measurement of the fine structure constant α using interferometry
techniques. This w...
The forgotten life of Einstein’s wife
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19 December was the 141th anniversary of the birth of Mileva Marić
Einstein. But who remembers this brilliant scientist? While her husband,
Albert Einstein...
Coaching Academics?
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A longtime reader and sometime correspondent of mine recently posed some
questions to share with FSP readers (if you are still out there). These
questions...
So Long and Thanks For All the Fish!
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This blog has moved. The new location is http://dabacon.org/pontiff. So
long and thanks for all the fish! Over the past three years I’ve had a good
time bl...