XL Files
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…
Xiao-Li Meng writes:
Aging is a process that few look forward to, but like everything else in life, it is not without its silver linings. One of them is getting invitations to toast and roast your friends (or secret foes), at their expense. In the last month alone, I was…