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Ok, everyone, what book is sacred enough to you to get sworn in on?

I used to like the word “pause.” Now, a nerd in me wonders if dictionaries for sentiment analysis have to assign a new value to it if it connotes massive disruptions?

I use Rstudio 2024.12.1+563. In any case, after I manually installed and loaded all the packages, it seems I am able to use tidyverse, rstanarm, etc. #rstats

I manually installed all the packages mentioned after “DLL.” (in this instance, rbibutils). Why R did not install dependencies is beyond me. I checked the box “install dependencies” in Rstudio. But apparently it is not working.

2. When I tried to load packages tidyverse and rstanarm, I got tons of error messages.
Something like this:
"DLL ‘rbibutils’ not found: maybe not installed for this architecture?"

1.　The R installer conflicted with Norton 360. Norton thinks it is a malicious program and tried to quarantine some files during installation. I kept getting error messages. I solved this issue by simply disabling all functionalities of Norton 360.

I managed to upgrade from R 4.4.2 to R 4.5. But it was a bit complicated. Here are issues I experienced. I am writing this as a note to self. Also, someone might find this info useful.

Norton classifies an R4.5 temp file as IDP generic. #rstats. I am stuck.

Human-AI Symposium NEW! The Agenda of the event has been published.

sites.google.com/view/aaai-hu...

Human-AI Symposium NEW! The Agenda of the event has been published.

The Agenda is out. AAAI Spring Symposium 2025
Current and Future Varieties of Human-AI Collaboration

sites.google.com/view/aaai-hu...

a lighthouse in the middle of the ocean with waves crashing around it Alt: a lighthouse in the middle of the ocean with waves crashing around it

if you can't find a lighthouse, be a lighthouse.

Interdependent Human-Machine Teams Interdependent Human-Machine Teams: The Path to Autonomy examines the foundations, metrics, and applications of human-machine systems, the l

Our book came out. I contributed a chapter
“Knowledge, Consciousness, and Debate: Advancing the Science of Autonomous Human-Machine Teams.” with Bill Lawless and Ira S. Moskowitz.

shop.elsevier.com/books/interd...

It is weird to watch a commercial station with no commercials. I don’t have a TV set in my place, so I tuned in when I was in a lounge at a spa. This incident may be as terrible as Winesetein abuse cases at least.

www.daltoninvestments.com/rising-sun-m...

Los Angeles #gratitude #losangeles

Yes, giving you problems in the real world is their welfare policy to prevent scientists from losing touch with reality. 🙂

We contributed a chapter, Lawless, Moskowitz & Akiyoshi (2025) “Knowledge, Consciousness and Debate” to this book.
Now it is available for preorder.

Our chapter explores how you make big decisions on the deployment of big autonomous technologies.

a.co/d/gcbwMll

Employee photo of James Gleason, “Non-Perishable Manager.”

you’d be smiling too if you were immortal

go.bsky.app/AfC148e

To quants with the right kind of expertise: how do you control for “exposure” if you do the poll? Great cities with fewer residents and visitors may not make the list simply because of their limited visibility.

JFK in an open-topped limousine, approaching Dealey Plaza.

C.S. Lewis

With the Beatles cover art.

Still from Doctor Who's first episode, "An Unearthly Child"

It remains wild to me that in the space of a couple of days 61 years ago, you had the assassination of JFK, the deaths of C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley, the release of With the Beatles... and, stepping through a magic box into a Brave New World rendered in Op-Art Space Age style, Dr Who.

Sengataki in Shosenkyo, Yamanashi. A fall.

Shosenkyo, Yamanashi

Great! Just when I started to think about winter perfumes!

Just canceled X and moved over.

Educational standards (high Degree graduates in cooler colours)

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,144,922!

“Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” at the MET. The line was long…we had to wait for a little over an hour. If you’re going, make sure to scan the code in the museum so that you join the virtual queue.

So that we learn to see things from the perspective of immigrants. My US phone does not work. The line for taxi at the airport was like Ellis island all over again. But hey, here I am!

My new neighbor…a turkey. I have never seen a live one. It is rather a beautiful creature.

So “Scaramucci” is now a unit of time.
Metric system, anyone?