Just listened to an interesting talk about modeling beliefs based on this and other papers : A meta-model of belief dynamics with
Personal, Expressed and Social beliefs (arxiv.org/abs/2502.14362)

When the whole top half of the chip bag is opaque.

Just a reminder @shmoocon.bsky.social folks, sure you could eat in the hotel, but the farmers market 10min down at Dupont circle is _amazing_ fresh breakfast sandwiches, empanadas, French pastries. And crazy produce!

Going through a box in the attic. This is 20 years old.

If you know me for figures, it's for the Verizon DBIR: verizon.com/DBIR, particularly slanted bar charts, (horizontal CCDFs), and maybe spaghetti charts, (HOP plots).

Fun thing. I have a hot tub that can measure it's chlorine, set it's chlorine output, and connect to the network.... So I automated it and slapped an Observable Framework dashboard on it.

For those around Vegas, remember that there are simple things worth enjoying far more than the excess.

In hindsight, while I did check the size of the book in pages before ordering, I did not check it in inches.

I think this tweet is actually relatively prescient in general. For many debates, there are interpretive arguments for and against of equal validity, neither disprovable. And people will simply back the ones that align with their values.