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Month: October 2024

I voted… in San Francisco (my last US residence),… from Japan (where I am on sabbatical),… by fax.

Author defjafPosted on 30 October 20245 November 2024Format StatusCategories Uncategorised

No one is completely normal for the same reason you don’t have any Monte Carlo samples near the peak of a multivariate probability distribution.

Author defjafPosted on 16 October 202416 October 2024Format StatusCategories Uncategorised

Two views of Mount Fuji, famous or otherwise.

Mt Fuji from a train
Mt Fuji from Lake Ashinoko
Author defjafPosted on 14 October 202416 October 2024Format StatusCategories Uncategorised

Nobel prize in physics for the development of machine learning techniques. Interesting choice — incredibly consequential (it lies behind large language models like ChatGPT etc), but arguably not “physics”.

Author defjafPosted on 8 October 202416 October 2024Format StatusCategories Uncategorised

From Ninomiya House, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.

Author defjafPosted on 1 October 202416 October 2024Format StatusCategories Uncategorised

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