As near as I can tell, “woke” is an open code word for “social justice.” I taught at a Catholic university for several years in the 1990s, and there was certainly a lot of talk about so...
https://pvarhol.wordpress.com/2021/12/07/mathematics-wokeness-and-root-cause/
I have a rescue cat. I call her Monica, after my niece. For those of you who have never had a rescue pet, they can be a challenge. Monica spent her first two weeks at home under a bed. I ...
https://pvarhol.wordpress.com/2021/12/01/about-my-cat-ai-and-interacting-with-people/
Apparently we have yet another example of sports spectators behaving badly in cheering against another team, with racist comments designed to, well, I don’t know what they are designed to do ex...
https://pvarhol.wordpress.com/2021/11/29/heres-what-universities-should-be-telling-their-students/
I’m betting (pun intended) that the vast majority of you don’t know what that means. It means he was a bookie. He ran illegal numbers. Every weekday afternoon at 4:30, my mother compute...
https://pvarhol.wordpress.com/2021/11/27/my-father-kept-a-book/
I’ll bet you never heard that statement before. Algorithms are the basis of machine learning and decision-making today. Recently, for the want of an accurate and representative algorithm, Z...
https://pvarhol.wordpress.com/2021/11/21/but-for-the-want-of-an-algorithm/
Yes, I’m going to dump on Mark Zuckerberg again, this time for his dubious strategic business decisions. In renaming his company Meta, and pursuing distorted views of our experiences, he has ...
https://pvarhol.wordpress.com/2021/11/12/the-metaverse-is-way-overhyped/
After weeks of searching for Brian Laundrie, it seems that the authorities may have found his body in a nature reserve in Florida. While I am not following this story, the headline made me ask ...
https://pvarhol.wordpress.com/2021/10/20/how-easy-is-it-to-disappear/
I’ve been railing against Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg for a long time, to no avail (and no surprise). But I would like to be on the side of right, which Facebook definitely is not. And I�...
https://pvarhol.wordpress.com/2021/10/06/still-evil-after-all-these-years/