Instead of barring students from using AI for their term papers, I required it. The prompt was to tell the history of AI, from Turing to LLMs. Here are the surprising results, ranging from a John Grisham mystery story to an SNL sketch to an epic poem: aiinnovatorsarchive.tulane.edu/2024/

I'm counting on Jon Batiste bringing his father and uncle onstage at Snug Harbor last night to carry me at least halfway through the summer Malaise.

I had a Honda 50.

Doris Kearns Goodwin recounts the incredible journey she and her husband, Dick Goodwin, embarked upon in the last years of his life to catalog the front-row seat they had to history in the 1960s. Doris Kearns Goodwin Walter Isaacson
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With his ever wary eyes, genial half smile, and Achesonian mustache, CIA Director William Burns exudes a combi­nation of confidence and humility that makes him seem, as indeed he is, a throwback to…. time.com/6965232/bill-b…

April 15 is the birthday of Leonardo da Vinci, one of the people in history (along with Aristotle, Franklin, von Neumann, who else?) who came closest to knowing the most about everything that was knowable at the time. His Vitruvian Man is, I think, a self portrait.

The case for making all election coverage free and in front of paywalls for 2024. My latest from @TheAltantic theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

He is, of course, talking about the ball he helped construct atop the dome of the cathedral in Florence, il Duomo.

How FSD 12 came to be the future of AI cnbc.com/2023/09/09/ai-…

Author Charles Duhigg discusses how we can better talk to each other in his new book 'Supercommunitcators.' Charles Duhigg Walter Isaacson
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How FSD 12 came to be the future of AI cnbc.com/2023/09/09/ai-…

Starbase, Texas, rocket factory

Coming to you two weeks from today!
Six stories of modern New York and a 200 page romp through late thirties Hollywood with my old friend, Eve Ross. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them.

A visit to New Orleans shows that polarization isn’t always as pervasive as we may think. Part of a series in ⁦The Free Press⁩ ⁦Bari Weiss⁩ ⁦ thefp.com/p/introducing-…

With ⁦Imani Perry⁩ talking about Necessary Trouble at the NOLA Book Festival. Thank you Imani for a great conversation!

Packed house at NOLA Book Festival We have some legendary New Orleans culinary legends here with Dook Chase from @dookychaseresteraunt @megbickford from @commanderspalace @ejlagasse from @emerils and Ashley Hansen from Hansen's Sno-Bliz

Mrs. Benson introduced Steve Gleason - "Live Impossible" at the @NOLABookFest for a discussion on his upcoming book “A Life Impossible: Living with ALS - Finding Peace and Wisdom within a Fragile Existence”

At #NOLABookFest , Imani Perry talks about storytelling as a tool for managing grief and reflects on what it means to be a southern writer on a panel with Clint Smith Jesmyn Ward Eddie S. Glaude Jr.. bookfest.tulane.edu

After #NOLABookFest panels wrap up today, stick around for the closing musical celebration with the “Soul Queen of New Orleans” Irma Thomas in the Hyatt Regency Festival tent! 🎶🎵