XL Files
As you may recall from the previous issue, Xiao-Li Meng promised to reveal how a statistician like him found a path to partnering with leaders in the wine industry. All will be revealed in this and the following two installments of the XL-Files. Here, we are reprinting—with permission and…
Xiao-Li Meng writes:
Winston Churchill is known for his many memorable quotes, and for wine lovers, none more savory than his toast to Champagne: “In victory, I deserve it; in defeat, I need it.” As a staunch believer in Churchill’s chicken soup for life, I found it impossible to not…
Xiao-Li Meng writes:
Here is a moral test (especially for statisticians). Which of the following acronyms baffles you the most: ANOVA, ADSN, ASC, ANU, ABS, or AITA?
Regardless of your answer (or questioning—a moral test??), the eight A’s in the above acronyms will forever remind me of my recent eight-day…
Xiao-Li Meng chats some more about ChatGPT, following his XL-Files in the April/May 2023 issue:
Since my first encounter with it in March, ChatGPT, along with its many emerging siblings and cousins (some out of wedlock), has rapidly evolved into a “promptbot,” by which I’m not referring only to…
Xiao-Li Meng chats about ChatGPT:
By now, it’s worth having a chat if you know someone who hasn’t chatted with or about ChatGPT. Everyone I’ve talked to about it has been either impressed or depressed, sometimes concomitantly, with a few wanting to suppress the whole thing, almost contemptuously.
My first…