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Until You Know It Cold
ByMichaelThe first time I watched a large language model generate research output in forty seconds, I was not impressed by the quality. I was impressed by the volume, and by how quickly it could pivot when I changed the question. The results were plausible, competently organized, and largely superficial. What changed things was connecting to…
The Data Science Workflow
ByMichaelThis was one of the first things I learned and is pretty much my go-to.
How Big is Big Data? (Infographic)
ByMichaelHow BIG is Big Data? infographic
Pope Leo XIV Identified the Right Problem
ByMichaelIn my last post I argued that the AI debate runs simultaneously at five levels (task, person, organization, economy, civilization) and that no one has agreed on which level should have standing. The civilization level, where the hardest questions live and where costs tend to concentrate, keeps getting treated as decorative. Nobody is lying. Everyone…
What if Nobody Is Lying About AI?
ByMichaelThe debate about AI’s effects has been running for three years and producing mostly heat. Not because the researchers are wrong. Because they are not studying the same thing. Here is the clearest version of what I mean. A major 2025 meta-analysis of 69 studies found that ChatGPT produces significant positive effects on academic performance,…
From a spreadsheet nobody used to intelligence everyone can act on
ByMichaelEvery admissions cycle, colleges make thousands of offers. A fraction of those students say yes and show up in September. The rest go somewhere else. Enrollment managers have always suspected they knew where. Suspicion and data are different things. For most IR offices, the standard answer to “where did our admits go?” was a spreadsheet….
