Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Why have so many aviation disasters occured on this day (9 August) in history? Via Wikipedia; links in the original: 9 Aug 1970: LANSA Flight 502 crashes after takeoff from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport in Cusco, Peru, killing 99 of the 100 people … Continue reading →

“Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test,” a March 2025 paper posted on arXiv by Cameron R. Jones and Benjamin K. Bergen. “TruthfulQA: Measuring How Models Mimic Human Falsehoods,” a paper posted on GitHub by Stephanie Lin, Jacob Hilton, and … Continue reading →

According to Wikipedia (footnotes omitted; links in the original), “Rififi (French: Du rififi chez les hommes) is a 1955 French crime film adaptation of Auguste Le Breton‘s novel of the same name. Directed by American blacklisted filmmaker Jules Dassin, the film stars Jean Servais as the aging gangster … Continue reading →

As a footnote to two of my scholarly papers with Alain Alcouffe–one on “Adam Smith in the City of Light“; the other on “Adam Smith in the Salons of Paris“–I have been meaning to repost this recent entry from another … Continue reading →

I just heard this catchy song for the first time in Panama City Beach last week, but according to Google’s A.I. assistant, it was released over three years ago on 29 June 2022!

I am reposting this recent entry from one of my favorite blogs, Remembering Singapore: Singapore’s Most Recognisable Logos, Then and Now (Part 1)

I am interrupting my beach vacation to share this “infamously difficult” syllabus from 1941. It was for an epic class titled “Fate and the Individual in European Literature” at the University of Michigan, and the professor was none other than … Continue reading →