Archie Fallon

Listen. I got three expressions: looking left, looking right and looking straight ahead. - Robert Mitchum

[Hard Pass @HardPass4]

Good morning and happy 4th of July.

Best country in the world.

[Doug Lewin @douglewinenergy]

Yesterday, Texans used 1.7 terawatt-hours of power, highest use day in June so far.

And over 60% of that power, over one terawatt-hour, was produced by wind, solar, and nuclear.

World-leading energy innovation is happening in Texas. #txlege #txenergy

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

Studies show that watching a beaver eat cabbage lowers stress by 17%

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨BREAKING: MIT hooked people up to brain scanners while they used ChatGPT.

What they found should concern every single person reading this.

ChatGPT users showed 55% weaker brain connectivity than people who didn't use it. Not after years. After just four months.

Here's how they tested it. 54 people were split into three groups: one used ChatGPT to write essays, one used Google, and one used nothing but their own brain. They wore EEG monitors that tracked their brain activity in real time across four sessions over four months.

The brain-only group built the strongest, most widespread neural networks. Google users were in the middle. ChatGPT users had the weakest brains in the room. Every time.

Then the memory test hit. Participants were asked to recall what they'd just written minutes earlier. 83% of ChatGPT users couldn't quote a single line from their own essay. They wrote it. They couldn't remember it. The words passed through them like they were never there.

It gets worse. In the final session, ChatGPT users were told to write without AI. Their brains were measurably weaker than people who never used AI at all. 78% still couldn't recall their own writing. The damage didn't go away when the tool was removed.

Meanwhile, brain-only users who tried ChatGPT for the first time? Their brains lit up. They wrote better prompts. They retained more. Their brains were already strong enough to use AI as a tool instead of a crutch.

The researchers also found that every ChatGPT essay on the same topic looked almost identical. More facts, more dates, more names. But less original thinking. Everyone using ChatGPT produced the same generic output while believing it was their own.

MIT gave this a name: cognitive debt. Like financial debt, you borrow convenience now and pay with your thinking ability later. Except there's no way to pay it back.

The question isn't whether ChatGPT is useful. It's whether the price is your ability to think without it.

[Archie Fallon @ArchieFallon]

@sacklunch0228 @konstructivizm No way

[philosophy for life @philosophy_life]

“The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”

― Socrates

[Archie Fallon @ArchieFallon]

@CharlesPen44785 Food driven music is good music

[Archie Fallon @ArchieFallon]

@Texas2step73 @TheAstrosLocker He only owns like a third of the team.

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

Rutgers lost $54 million in college sports last year*. UConn lost $30 mil. UCF and Houston lost $40 mil. Athletics is a money pit for all but a couple dozen schools, with the median losing $16 mil/year.

The settlement with college athletes adds another $20 mil expense. Growing TV money will not solve the problem; expenses always climb faster than revenues.

Every pro league has robust cost containment provisions to make them sustainable. History shows that without them the pressure to spend is too great. The irony is college athletics, run by nonprofit institutions, has minimal rules. And thus schools, funded by tuition and student fees, blow their brains out trying to compete.

College sports is the ultimate zero-sum competition. Only one school wins the championship each year. Half will have a losing record. Universities must use this settlement as a catalyst to install fiscal discipline into the system.

* Accounting for college sports is murky, with scholarships billed at list price and some non-athletic donations come due to sports. It's also true some donations that would have gone to academic mission are allocated by donor to athletics dept. That said, college sports loses a lot of $ for most schools.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

This is our Solar System to scale.

[Mark Berman @MarkBerman_]

Jose Altuve: “I know everybody is talking about the homer,but if you go & see Díaz's base hit & Singleton walked,especially when he hasn't played in a lot of days, & coming from the bench facing probably 1 of the best closers in the playoffs. So I think the key was these 2 guys.”

[Archie Fallon @ArchieFallon]

@matthewkawahara Matt I really enjoy your work. I have subscribed to print edition of Chronicle for years, but am struggling to not have game reviews each morning when I open up the paper. I’d like to be walking my 8 year old through the box score. How can we get this back?

[Archie Fallon @ArchieFallon]

Pauly Shore is the Encino Worm

[CNN @CNN]

Scientists have revived a worm that was frozen 46,000 years ago — at a time when woolly mammoths, sabre-toothed tigers and giant elks still roamed the Earth https://t.co/vbJIDKWsC1

[Archie Fallon @ArchieFallon]

via @NYTOpinion https://t.co/6Wq14JODjy

[Archie Fallon @ArchieFallon]

@carlquintanilla @nybooks But it did delay her publicizing the story in the crucial late days of the election cycle, which could have impacted his support among certain voter blocks. Nowadays, no one would care but some voters did then.

[Archie Fallon @ArchieFallon]

Meet the real Bloodline: How Roman Reigns and his family took over professional wrestling - via @ESPN App https://t.co/qZbLx7YB0H

[S&P Global @SPGlobal]

From @SPGMarketIntel: Check out this exclusive interview with Jigar Shah, Director of the DOE's loan programs office, as he discusses about the large-scale, all-of-the-above #energy infrastructure projects his office is funding in the United States. https://t.co/aPwwNW5G48

[Caroline Spencer @cclaytonr]

Sutton’s Drug Store celebrating 100 years in Chapel Hill https://t.co/ZVT2ay4sHR

[Archie Fallon @ArchieFallon]

@PreetBharara Kamala has most whiny voice