Reg and Jake:

Ackshuyally, Jenny McCarthy is a Large Language Model. It’s just that her Language, especially on vaccines, is Largely beyond her bird bath depth. 😁

Yes, but you can install a local LLM on you home pc and ‘train it’ to be something like a “Feynman  Teacher”. The teaching system needs a policy that treats the student’s demonstrated understanding rather than the completion of the immediate problem, as the objective.

EG “Discuss the impact of the rapid economic development of the country af…[Read more]

Bet ya there’d be a market for socratic & sarcastic LLM’s.

Yes, I think so. It think that is a very good question. An AI trained only on pre-1905 knowledge might be less capable than one trained today, because modern AI can challenge classical assumptions partly because its training already contains Einstein’s challenge. When present-day AI suggests questioning absolute simultaneity, it is not i…[Read more]

Reg:

Wouldn’t AI in Einstein’s time have also held to all the assumptions of all the previous giants in Physics and Cosmology? Would AI independently question those assumptions?

Reg:

Inside RFK Jr.’s push to dismantle decades of U.S. vaccine policy.

The latest news about Erica Schwartz and her hearing in Washington, DC is just flat-out disturbing!

This woman Erica Schwartz has spent her entire life in Medicine and in service to the nation in the U.S. Armed Forces literally breathing, e…[Read more]

I guess we could call on Feynman again with his cure for ‘metacognitive laziness’ and get students to learn the Feynman Technique first?

Explain the idea in plain language.
Notice where the explanation becomes vague.
Return to the source and repair the gap.
Explain it again without hiding behind jargon.

AI could be built into that process rather…[Read more]

Einstein’s originality did not emerge from knowing nothing that had gone before. He ‘stood on the shoulders of giants’ like Maxwell and Lorentz and others. Much of his work was reorganizing existing ideas around problems they had not fully resolved. For years Einstein clung to the prevailing cliché that the universe must be static. He later called…[Read more]

Reg:

World of Woo: When and why some people trust fame more than evidence.

It’s been with us for a while, at least 1985:

At least back then, people attached humor to this ad slogan. With wellness influencer culture, the ad slogan is now a serious qualification.