Listen to this article: I don’t think I’ve ever seen a technology develop and expand and proliferate this quickly. Remember back in the ancient days of 2023 when it was pretty much just ChatGPT? Did you notice the following year when Microsoft added Copilot into many of its products and Read more
Listen to this article: In accordance with tradition, I call upon the youth of the world and all of you here tonight to assemble four years from now in the French Alps, to celebrate with all of us the twenty-sixth Olympic Winter Games. See you all in 2030. Grazie mille. Read more
Listen to this article: Sometimes, the most meaningful presents aren’t the ones that were on the list. I’ve led a tremendously blessed life. I suspect that most of us have. Growing up, my brother Greg and I would wait with anticipation for Christmas morning to see how much of our Read more
Listen to this article: This year’s St. Jude Memphis Marathon Weekend is in the books. I come into the half-marathon each year with three goals. The first is to finish. The second is to finish in less than three hours. The third is to improve my time from the previous Read more
Listen to this article: It’s a Thanksgiving dinner tradition in most families, where each person around the table shares something that they’re thankful for. Toward the top of just about everyone’s list are “family and friends.” We had a house rule where thankfulness for family and friends was taken as Read more
Listen to this article: Each spring in elementary school, as soon as the weather turned nice enough to be outside, we would start the Physical Fitness unit in Gym class, culminating in the Presidential Physical Fitness Award tests. I’m sure that many of you remember practicing pull-ups or flexed-arm hang, Read more
Practical Data is an occasional series that examines data concepts that we encounter in our everyday lives, sometimes without even knowing it. It is my pleasure to introduce you to the Sigmoid Function. I can’t help but think of it as the “Sigmund Function” after the main character in the Read more
Last week in the Reservoir of Ideas, I discussed bias in generative models and the impact of the data that’s fed to them. As luck would have it, a couple days later, a colleague reposted a TikTok video of a woman reading the ChatGPT analysis of HR-1, a.k.a. “The Big Beautiful Read more
“The Golden Eagle award is presented to a senior who soars beyond the expectations of others. On first impression, people expect all sorts of different things about each of us; some we have to strive to meet and some we have to battle through. This award recognizes determination, diligence, and Read more
The last class I needed to graduate from college was Statistics. I wasn’t avoiding it, but I wasn’t excited about it either. Statistics classes were taught out of a couple different departments, but “Math Stats” was the required option. There was definitely a hierarchy. It would be unacceptable for a Read more