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Using an LLM to rewrite the “entire corpus of human knowledge” and then using that corpus as a training set: definitely something that would be suggested by someone who knows how things work and not someone who understands absolutely nothing

submitted 7 hours ago • 8 comments

Time for a classic game of “Iran nukes, China tariffs, or Harvard grants?”

submitted 8 hours ago • 11 comments

Is this the world that Rufo and Weiss and company want? Students winning awards for saying the constitution should only apply to white people? If one believes “institutional neutrality” means there are no positions that the institution can hold, that feels more like nihilism than neutrality.

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

Using an LLM to rewrite the “entire corpus of human knowledge” and then using that corpus as a training set: definitely something that would be suggested by someone who knows how things work and not someone who understands absolutely nothing

submitted 7 hours ago • 8 comments

Interesting thread. I wonder whether it says that the most important barrier to scientific literacy is (self-directed) interest, not availability of popular science. They’re related but getting people curious about (and interested in) science may be upstream of getting them to engage with pop sci.

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

Time for a classic game of “Iran nukes, China tariffs, or Harvard grants?”

submitted 8 hours ago • 11 comments

A minor point amidst the fascism, but a good education fosters "viewpoint discrimination" because lacking the ability to adjudicate between good and bad ideas is how you end up with RFK making measles great again.

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

Is this the world that Rufo and Weiss and company want? Students winning awards for saying the constitution should only apply to white people? If one believes “institutional neutrality” means there are no positions that the institution can hold, that feels more like nihilism than neutrality.

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

Interesting thread. I wonder whether it says that the most important barrier to scientific literacy is (self-directed) interest, not availability of popular science. They’re related but getting people curious about (and interested in) science may be upstream of getting them to engage with pop sci.

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

BREAKING: Judge denies NSF's 15% indirect rate plan. Like the DOE and NIH attempts, it too has now been rejected by courts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

How I'm picturing the pitch meeting:

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

First Blood is truly a classic with a lot to say about our current moment and all of the sequels are reactionary garbage (that I have still watched multiple times; know thyself and all that)

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

If you haven't seen First Blood and just know about "Rambo" as a caricature, I would definitely encourage you to watch it. Tremendous film.

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If you read in a paper that something is "is straightforward to compute", you know it's gnarly but doable. If it's "straightforward but tedious"? Better brew another pot of coffee and go to office depot for another set of yellow legal pads.

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It’s unnerving how Republicans have turned Florida’s public university system, which used to be extremely high quality, into a censorious pyramid scheme for friends of Ron De Santis.

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How I'm picturing the pitch meeting:

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The coffee shop I'm at is playing episodes of the original Baywatch and I'd forgotten how completely unhinged it was (half complimentary, half derogatory).

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

If you haven't seen First Blood and just know about "Rambo" as a caricature, I would definitely encourage you to watch it. Tremendous film.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

First Blood is truly a classic with a lot to say about our current moment and all of the sequels are reactionary garbage (that I have still watched multiple times; know thyself and all that)

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

The Twitter post is very funny, but there's a broader confusion because the causation is not uniform across professions with a dominant group / ideology: exclusionary selection & social forces make most CEOs white men, while physicists are often nonreligious b/c of the nature of their subject matter

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

A couple of books that cover the decline of finances at US universities (I'm sure there are many others):

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It’s good to see the Times noting the admin’s attacks on higher ed as a proximate cause. But state governments have been chronically underfunding their university systems for decades and still see them as attractive targets for budget cuts.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

If I were running the Post, I’d frame this as a huge loss for Americans, who are now more likely be subjected to an enhanced police state, rather than a win for the would-be king who wants the police state.

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NYT: masterful gambit, sir.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

It’s good to see the Times noting the admin’s attacks on higher ed as a proximate cause. But state governments have been chronically underfunding their university systems for decades and still see them as attractive targets for budget cuts.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

If I were running the Post, I’d frame this as a huge loss for Americans, who are now more likely be subjected to an enhanced police state, rather than a win for the would-be king who wants the police state.

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It is indeed shocking and offensive how dated professors’ l pop culture references are nowadays, glad students are getting warned in advance.

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NYT: masterful gambit, sir.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

🎶 It’s my pejorative 🎶

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Sleepy pup

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Ted Cruz hates communists. Communists hate Batista. Batista hates Ted Cruz’s dad. It’s the circle of life.

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So the guys in tactical gear in the Dodgers stadium parking lot were unrelated to any operation, enforcement, or the Dodgers? That is the position you are taking in public, DHS?

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