Borowitz is like the New Yorker's very own "Can you believe Donald f***ing Trump was President?" The sheer brute fact just totally undermines the credibility of the entire enterprise.
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Any thread on causal inference involving JP will eventually end up with him heartily annoying anyone who is talking to him, no matter how much they agree with him at the outset. While merely observational, this nevertheless seems like a very robust generalization.
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I like it when it's not clear whether a piece was written by an "Everything since the fall of the Berlin Wall has been kind of a blur for me, to be honest" New York Times employee or an "I have no first-hand memories of events before 9/11" New York Times employee.
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This paper is quite fun. Just a nice qualitative investigation of the irresistible rise of Career Coaches whose main qualification seems to be an inability to hold down a job.
https://doi-org/10.1086/718471
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France wouldn't keep producing weirdo cultural theorists for export if the United States didn't keep provisioning them with this sort of material.
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sure but what about an MBA exam at an Ivy League school
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ChatGPT has now successfully passed a Wharton MBA exam. Sure, this isn’t the hardest problem, but to execute it in 1 second is the breakthrough.
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Lol
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An analysis looks at how defense spending among the nations with the highest expenditures has changed since 1992 and what may have driven the changes ow.ly/MyOx50MwEyF
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One way to find yourself featured in a melancholic, vaguely dystopian movie is to walk down an empty corridor in a large airport while wearing noise cancelling earbuds and listening to literally any sort of music.
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Honestly kind of looking forward to finding out the next mundane and entirely sensible practice that will be condemned as Carceral Pedagogy or Literal Abuse etc.
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How can you run structured courses, of any length, without deadlines? The end of the term or academic year, or end of the incomplete period, is going to function as a deadline. I get the appeal of letting them organically do their work when they do it, but nothing works like that
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Seems like a Buddhism course would do you good, tbh
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What do you mean 'we' etc etc. Meanwhile I imagine "Aoife" appears on the list because it is in fact a quite *common* Irish name, so people are more likely to encounter it. There are plenty of Irish names that even Irish people would have more trouble with at first glance.
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Irish names were found to be the among the words we have most difficulty pronouncing. The hardest of all is the name Aoife, which generated 111,000 Google searches on how to say it over the course of the year thetimes.co.uk/article/hardes
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Contrasting the traditional less generous UK/Ireland Uni grade scale (1H/2.1/2.2/P/F) with the US one happens around here often enough, but less so the also-once-traditional "Repeats"—the 2nd round of exams at the end of the summer for people who failed the first one in June.
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When I make my billions & endow Fuckley university, the majority of non-major classes for undergrads will be pass/fail, passing will require actual competence in the material, but failing will also be normalized & default degree schedule will assume several fails & retakes.
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You have to wonder if these people really believe this shite.
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Ask a really badly-worded question, play TradCath Convert gotcha when people are clearly giving the right answer.
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The real trick is how they got footage of a real cavalry/infantry battle from the middle ages [puts hand to ear] oh wait im just being told it is pretend
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This relationship to time is like when I agree to give a talk next year or write a chapter for a book due out in 2025 on the grounds that anything further out than next Tuesday is essentially an infinite distance away.
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Someone asked me for my view, so here it is.
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Lá amach faoin tuath.
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"Disabled Veteran: George Santos Took $3K From Dying Dog's GoFundMe." What a headline, folks. What. A. Headline.
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Devs like Tapbots and The Iconfactory represent a tiny fraction of Twitter. Treating them and their users poorly won't have any worse effects on trust and goodwill towards Twitter than a needle in a mitten, a hair in a slice of cake, or a drop of blood in a jug of milk.
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Tweetbot has been around for over 10 years, we've always complied with the Twitter API rules.
If there's some existing rule that we need to comply with, we'd be happy to do so, if possible. But we do need to know what it is...
@TwitterDev, you know how to reach us. twitter.com/TwitterDev/sta…
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I take this as evidence that you could ask for a ranking of "Top 10 British Universities Whose Name Contains The Letter 'W'" and Oxford would come in at #2 with Cambridge in the Top 10 somewhere.
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Time for some Clown Theory
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The EA Clown Optimizer continues to emit clowns at an ever-increasing rate. MIT FLI's "due diligence uncovered" they were going to give money to the Holocaust Deniers the Director's brother writes for, but as brain geniuses saving humanity we remain etc 🤡 forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/5vFmMXWs
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It's turning into a great month for professional Nerd Eschatologists
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"You should still take me seriously about the future of human life as it will be hundreds, thousands, or even millions of years from now, even though I seem incapable of accurately stating simple, empirically verifiable facts about human life as it was in 1995."
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JFC do you even Venmo; I'm not going to answer this question for nothing
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Academics, what do you think about this?
I don't know about all of you, but the thought of invoicing somebody because they're interested in your work and want to chat seems pretty fucking bleak.
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The real hidden curriculum in graduate training is a working knowledge of the filesystem.
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The writing in this game is comically terrible btw. Just preposterous.
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In this post-apocalyptic game, one of the many things that didn't survive The Event was a working knowledge of the Albers Equal Area Projection.
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Haha I thought the Javice / JP Morgan complaint got boring after the NYC-area Data Science Professor part, but I should have kept going. Page 41 contains this Data Wrangling gem.
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OK then.
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There's only one way this ends and we all know it, may as well just get things over with: put Nick Bostrom on Rick & Morty.
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Reminds me of this Stata moment
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Rstat user looking at his own ggplot graphs be like
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The thought experiment that any criticism in the present of Nick Bostrom's statements about race and intelligence in the past will only hasten the emergence of a superintelligent social justice AI in the future is known as "Woko's Basilisk".
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Prince Harry's memoir isn't what I expected, tbh
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Really more of a difficult problem than it might appear. "Whoops we wrote our new Flight Tool in some random Javascript framework. Sorry!"
Meanwhile all the cool ML/AI etc sits on top of FORTRAN. Banking runs on COBOL, because with money it's important where the decimal is. Etc.
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Remember folks, 90% of data analysis is data cleaning, even when you are making up the data.
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Remember folks, 90% of data analysis is data cleaning, even when you are making up the data.
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I know a complaint is just a complaint, and not a list of facts, but if its contents are accurate it's hard to see how the Data Science Professor could really have been in the dark about the fact that they were being asked to help facilitate fraud.
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