i have a professor called roychowdury teaching statistics

i like the way this guy thinks. the subtle philosophical implications he is throwing out is reflective of the core of statistics he is trying to communicate. we can't know everything.

he also says llms work by hallucinating.

he is now saying we think, then say, then write. we can put an eeg on someone's head and translate what they are thinking since thinking guides the actions of writing or talking, and those thoughts have associations with the motor cortex. apparently his motor cortex hallucinated and he wrote an intersection instead of a union.

he also demonstrated the birthday paradox by saying God picks people from the urn and puts orders them in the 365 calendar days

now he is talking about baseball and how he watched it when he was a grad student. he noticed that pitching rate and run count and who comes on the mound all have to do with statistics. he is now talking about how predictable humans are and how humbling/powerful it is to be able to recognize patterns in people.

now he is talking about how solar storms bombard our planet and if it is large enough it could plunge us into a winter. he's hoping we will not be hit by a large enough solar storm that knocks out all our communications.