Humfrey applby

There are some people who don’t constantly read the news. They don’t know much about the war & that energy supply could be interrupted. One might think oh that’s being uninformed. I’m now thinking atleast they are happy and unbothered now. Later anyway everyone will be miserable.

Has the academia completely moved to in-line citation? I still do footnote citations and do it manually. However, except in some books, I rarely see it.

A PhD student at Oxford got caught submitting "AI-generated" work. Except he hadn't used AI to write anything. He used it to think. Here's the workflow his advisor called "the most sophisticated research process I've seen in 20 years." He starts every essay with a brutal diagnostic prompt. Dumps his rough argument into Claude and asks: "What are the 3 weakest logical jumps in this reasoning? Where would a hostile examiner attack first?" The AI doesn't write his essay. It destroys his draft. Then he rebuilds. But the next step is what separates him from every other student using ChatGPT or Claude to generate paragraphs. He uploads the top 5 papers in his field and asks: "What claims in my argument contradict or oversimplify what these authors actually found?" Most students cite papers they've skimmed. He cites papers he's been forced to genuinely understand. The final move is almost unfair. Before submitting, he pastes his conclusion and asks: "What would a philosopher of science say is missing from this argument? What assumptions am I making that I haven't defended?" His essays come back with comments like "unusually rigorous" and "demonstrates rare critical depth." He's not using AI to write. He's using it to think harder than he could alone. The tool hasn't changed. The workflow has.

They really need to give Taylor a Nobel Prize. The Taylor Rule effectively ended forty years of macroeconomic discourse. It made I/S-L/M look incredibly silly and even convinced Friedman of inflation targeting.

Calculus began here. At least 250 years before Newton was born. FYI : Newton was a plagiarist. His own colleagues accused him for it.

India is frequently presented as evidence that vegetarianism works. A country of 1.4 billion people, with a large vegetarian population, a tradition of plant-based eating stretching back millennia, and, the implication runs, a health profile to match. Let's look at the health profile. India has the highest number of diabetics of any country on Earth: approximately 100 million diagnosed, with estimates suggesting a further 130 million in the pre-diabetic range. This is a population where type 2 diabetes is not a disease of the old or the obese in the Western sense: it strikes Indians at lower BMIs, at younger ages, and with more aggressive metabolic consequences than in comparable Western populations. India has among the highest rates of cardiovascular disease in the world, again emerging at younger ages and lower body weights than typically seen elsewhere. India has significant rates of micronutrient deficiency: B12, iron, zinc, vitamin D, the precise nutrients found most abundantly in animal foods. India also has the highest consumption of seed oils per capita of any major nation. It is the world's largest consumer of refined vegetable oils, predominantly soybean and sunflower. The vegetarian diet is the mascot. The seed oil is doing the damage. Nobody is talking about the seed oil.

No difference !

Does a cat have Buddha nature?

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