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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…

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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…

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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…

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Contributing Editor Xiao-Li Meng has been in a case of repeated mistaken identity—a result, perhaps, of people seeing what they hope to see. He cautions against doing the same with your data… If I am fortunate to have you as a frequent reader of the XL-Files, you might recall…

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Xiao-Li Meng got it. COVID, that is. But the silver lining is that he now makes a welcome return to writing the “XL-Files”: What happens when a statistician becomes a COVID statistic? Well, first of all, a COVID fever reignited my XL fervor. No, the missing “XL-Files” have not been…

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