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Ben Rechtarg min: a blog of minimum value. on the history, foundations, and validity of "optimally" automated decision making.
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Three Years of Argmin
My argmin.md file compels me to write a blog about blogging every July 1st. It’s my official Substack anniversary, and we’ve made it through year three. The process here is, for better or worse, set in stone and could be written as a skill...
CJ2K battles ALS
Yesterday on Good Morning America, NFL Hall of Famer Chris Johnson announced that he had ALS. Johnson, nicknamed CJ2K for his 2006 rushing yards in 2009, was one of the most electrifying players I’ve ever seen. He was impossibly fast. Every...
A Tribute to Dimitri Bertsekas
My teacher and friend Dimitri Bertsekas passed away earlier this month. I just learned about this over the weekend, and I’m still processing my thoughts.
Dimitri was a hero of mine for so many reasons. I took my first and only class on opt...
All Data Is Good Data
On Friday, Midjourney, a generative AI company best known for automatically creating DeviantArt images from text prompts, announced it was pivoting to medicine. Their web copy opens with blunt honesty: “Today we’re gonna announce something...
I Want A New Drug
The meme of the decade is maxximization: looksmaxxing, proteinmaxxing, moneymaxxing, longevitymaxxing. There’s nothing in the world that can’t be maxxed. All the kids are optimizing these days.
Now, it’s easy to tut-tut obsessive maxxers a...
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Ben is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.
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