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Facts, Opinions, and Misunderstandings
In a previous post from over a year ago, I had tried to highlight the differences between facts and opinions. Even back then, my feeling was that that writeup was mostly redundant and unnecessary, as I assumed pretty much every reasonable person knew the difference. So it came to me as a huge surprise when…
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The Gold Card
The Trump “Gold Card,” a new, fast-track U.S. residency program is finally launched. It allows wealthy foreigners to “gift” $1 million (or $2 million for corporations) to the government for expedited permanent residency and a path to citizenship. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick stated the program aims to attract “top of the best” immigrants who significantly…
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Quiet Piggy
Earlier this year, when I shared, in a group chat among former classmates, links to news articles about a couple of our president’s own Truth Social posts, one ending with “Long Live the King,” and the other one envisioning the future of Gaza as a casino town with tall buildings and flashy “Trump Hotel” or…
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Cruelty Is the Point, Not a Side Effect
USDA emailed grocery stores around the country telling them not to offer special discounts or deals to SNAP recipients amid the freeze, warning that doing so would violate the program’s “Equal Treatment Rule.” That rule requires stores to sell eligible food items to SNAP-EBT customers at the same prices and under the same conditions as…
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LLMs
A friend of mine, an experienced circuit design engineer, told me the other day that one of his managees had recently submitted a paper to a well-respected conference on signal processing. The paper was apparently on a novel modification to a commonly used signal processing algorithm and the resulting simplifications and savings in its hardware…
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A Modern Scientific Approach
On Thursday, Oct. 9, the Health and Human Services Secretary spoke during a cabinet meeting and shared a story about a pregnant woman “gobbling” Tylenol. “This morning before I came in here, somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman, eight months pregnant. She is an associate professor at Columbia Medical School, and…
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Lawmaker, Prosecutor, Judge, and Jury in One
“To ICE, Border Patrol, Law Enforcement, and all U.S. Military: As per my August 25, 2025 Executive Order, please be advised that, from this point forward, anybody burning the American Flag will be subject to one year in prison,” Trump posted on Truth Social Friday evening. “You will be immediately arrested. Thank you for your…