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Of Possums and Persimmons
This past week, I went to the grocery store and found some persimmons (kudos Kroger). They weren’t far from ripe - key, because if not they have tremendous astringency. When I was a younger man and trapsing through the Appalachian forests, you’d f...
Post · January 04, 2026
🎉 Super excited to share that my second first-author paper has been accepted in Smart Agricultural Technology! 🐄 💡
Random cross-validation (CV) splits data into training and testing sets and is widely used to evaluate model performance. However, when the dataset includes multiple records from the same animal, random partitioning will likely create dependencies...
Post · January 04, 2026
Psychologia w Krzemie: Jak sztuczna inteligencja naśladuje ludzki umysł?
Czy zastanawialiście się kiedyś, dlaczego rozmowa z najnowszymi wersjami sztucznej inteligencji wydaje się coraz bardziej "ludzka"? To nie przypadek. Rozwój AI przestał być jedynie wyścigiem mocy obliczeniowej i inżynierii oprogramowania. Stał się...
Post · January 04, 2026
History and Economic History
Can historians and economic historians understand each other? That was the subtext of a panel discussion on "Number Trouble" at last weekend's meeting of the American Association for Slavic and East European Studies (ASEEES). On the panel were som...
Post · January 01, 2026