Category Archives: Science

From Chessboards to Chatbots: The Story of Machine Intelligence — and Where It’s Headed

Posted on 2025 August 13 by Danny Choriki

From Chessboards to Chatbots: The Story of Machine Intelligence — and Where It’s Headed Written with CoPilot (2025). If you’ve ever wondered how we got from clunky, room‑filling computers that could just about play chess to conversational AI that can … Continue reading →

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Last Chance to Kill Anti-Vaccine Bills

Posted on 2023 March 1 by Curator

From: Kiely <kiely> Date: Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 3:30 PM Subject: Last Chance to Kill Anti-Vaccine Bills To: Danny Choriki <danny> Before Transmittal View this email in your browser Danny, HB715 and SB450 were voted out of their committees … Continue reading →

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November 16, 2013; Skepticon 6 is underway in Missouri

Posted on 2013 November 16 by Danny Choriki

Found out earlier this week that Skepticon 6 is happening this weekend in Missouri.  They are live streaming at http://skepticon.org/.  The schedule is at http://skepticon.org/schedule/.  Looks like a fun event.  Road trip next year?

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Snow days, climate change and second order effects

Posted on 2010 February 26 by Danny Choriki

It is a snow day in New York City. Again. I am enjoying it but I did grow up in Montana. This one is a little closer to what I would call a snow day, i.e. a decent accumulation where … Continue reading →

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Life, Limits and You Are Here

Posted on 2009 December 4 by Danny Choriki

(Dateline – Sol 3) One of my life changing moments was reading the book Limits to Growth (1972) when I was in high school. It wasn’t an “ah ha” moment like reading the Milgram experiments. It was, as later in life I learned … Continue reading →

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