Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

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:

The highlight of my family vacation in Key West, by far, was visiting the former home of Ernest Hemingway and his second wife Pauline Pfeiffer on 907 Whitehead Street; below are just a few pictures from our recent visit:

Birthday blessings to my beautiful wife Sydjia! The picture on the left was taken on a chilly Thanksgiving weekend day in Florida in 2010, shortly after we started dating. The one on the right was taken earlier this year on … Continue reading →

Update (12/31): To supplement the original music video (posted above) of the catchy K-pop ballad “We Go” by the South Korean girl group fromis_9, the video below presents a color-coded guide showing which girl is singing which part of the … Continue reading →