Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Originally posted on prior probability:
Today (6 January) is Epiphany, or “Three Kings’ Day”; pictured below is a poster commemorating Three Kings Day, a poster originally made in 1982 by Nuyorican artist Manny Vega. More details about the significance of…

ChatGPT doesn’t know what freedom is. That, or Microsoft’s new bot has become a mouthpiece of the Cuban Communist Party! I recently asked the AI engine, When will Cuba be free? And this misleading and erroneous four-sentence reply is what … Continue reading →

Originally posted on prior probability:
I asked the new AI engine ChatGPT: “Hey, where did you get your priors?” And she (it?) replied: “I was trained by OpenAI on a dataset of billions of words taken from the Internet. As…

I asked the new AI engine ChatGPT: “Hey, where did you get your priors?” And she (it?) replied: “I was trained by OpenAI on a dataset of billions of words taken from the Internet. As a language model, my training … Continue reading →

Originally posted on prior probability:
That is the title of our most recent work in progress; one of the research projects we were working on while we were on sabbatical. (Part 1 of the paper will be published in the…

I fell in love with Mexico during my first extended stay in Cuernavaca in 1989; below is the melancholic ballad “Sólo Quédate en Silencio”, one of my all-time faves from the now-defunct Mex-pop group RBD:

Happy New Year, my peeps! On this day (1 January) in 1804, Haiti became the first black-majority republic and the second country in North America (after the United States) to gain her independence.

Was yesterday’s (30 December 2022) blitz game between chess grandmasters Magnus Carlsen and Richard Rapport one of the most exciting ever? Via Chess.com: “Carlsen very nearly lost his first game of the tournament against [Rapport] in round 14 in one … Continue reading →

In addition to my regular teaching duties, here is a summary of my scholarly production this past year: