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I wrote about chasing solar eclipses, the fallibility of memory, and the value of looking at things only our eyes can see for @NoemaMag
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laurence pevsner
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partner, research @Lux_Capital, moynihan center fellow @CityCollegeNY, apology columnist for @mcsweeneys. writing some books, probably about you.
New York, USA Katılım Ocak 2011
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@IAmClintMurphy @jonkay What evidence do you have for this? That was my original question, still hasn’t been answered!
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interesting case study that shows what white men have had to do over the last 10 years to remain employed in avant garde art spaces. Compare Ben Bogart’s bio from 2016 with 2026. Same guy. Except he reinvented himself as “neurodivergent nonbinary agender” (they/them, of course)
Amy Eileen Hamm@preta_6
My city’s new “artist in residence” - presented without comment…
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@jonkay Trying to inhabit your point of view so genuinely asking: if it makes them happy, why do you care?
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@Lpevs It’s the most charitable explanation. The other, less charitable, option, is that he actually believes he’s some absurd thing called “agender”
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@KelseyTuoc The merit-based argument I’ve seen is it provides “reassurance.” Does that mean we support TSA security theater too?
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@KelseyTuoc I understand why it’s good tactically for Dems—what’s the merit-based argument though in a country with so little (real) voter fraud?
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This is the correct stance. Photo voter ID is a good idea. The SAVE act is a bad idea because it's *not* just photo voter ID, but photo voter ID is a good idea. Also probably advantages Dems politically, but it's also good on the merits.
Steven Dennis@StevenTDennis
Schumer tells press Democrats are *not* opposed to photo voter ID.
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@EricNewcomer @davidlee Agreed, and in doing so he commits the classic motte-and-bailey fallacy
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@davidlee How did you take it? Feels like he’s vacillating between attacking therapy culture and introspection broadly
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Re introspection
After I graduated from college and did not get offered a full-time job at the NYT where I was an intern, I decided to spend a month hiking on the Appalachian Trail to do some reflecting on what I wanted from life. Just three days in I remember journaling that I definitely still wanted to be a reporter. I spent the rest of the 200+ miles getting over a breakup, unplugging from technology, and reading Game of Thrones.
If you know what you want to do and just pursue that goal, it is much easier to achieve than constantly reassessing and introspecting.
But perhaps Andreessen thinks I should have introspected more given the career I chose. To some degree the need for introspection is about whether you are getting major things wrong or not. Obviously having some internal check-ins is one way to try to see. Avoiding introspecting fastidiously would seem to me to be a sign that your subconscious thinks you might be bothered by your actions if you introspected.
Andreessen’s anti-introspection posture is particularly eyebrow raising given he also seems to avoid tough external questions. So we have someone with a penchant for nihilism and lust for power who is setting up every wall he can to avoid interrogating his drives.
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Some takeaways:
1) Vance perceived more conservative than Trump
2) Walz perceived more liberal than Harris
3) Beshear, Moore, Emanuel, Pritzker, and especially Gallego are unknown (both a challenge and opportunity)
4) Newsom perceived as very liberal (with more confidence than AOC!)
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@sentientist @DKThomp I feel like this is your last few podcast episode encapsulated in one tweet
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Guy loses 10 pounds in a week after he thinks he injected himself with a GLP-1
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@jluan If this is a Chinese AI conference…why is the slide in English?
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apparently this is what the chinese AI ecosystem thinks our grand american AI master plan is!
(this is not a joke! forwarded to me by an attendee at a real chinese ai conference!)
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Reality is a book, and experience is a sentence.
From my wonderful conversation this week w/ @nireyal—>
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It’s quite specific to ChatGPT, never seen Claude or Gemini do this
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I will never understand why OpenAI introduced clickbait into their product
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@KuperSimon @FinancialTimes I’d love to read this but link doesn’t seem to be working
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Paris, where I live, has transformed from a carbound into a bike-dominated city. In the process it became a trendsetter for the world's other cities. Now Paris's mayoral elections are a referendum on that shift. What lessons from Paris? Me @FinancialTimes as.ft.com/r/afafe14b-287…
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@pangramlabs @Sally_Sharif1 Then the big viral quote tweet saying thisr AI should retract and apologize!
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@Lpevs @Sally_Sharif1 We believe that this document is fully human-written
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Dr. Sally Sharif@Sally_Sharif1
I just gave a closed-book, pen-and-paper midterm exam in my 300-level course at UBC with 100 students. All exams were graded by an experienced graduate-level TA according to a rubric. *** The average was 64/100.*** My class averages at UBC are usually 80-85. Context: • This was the first midterm, covering ONLY 4 weeks of material. • Students had a list of possible questions in advance: no surprise questions. • Questions included (a) 3 concept definitions, (b) 3 paragraph-long questions, and (c) a 1.5-page essay. • I have taught this class multiple times. Nothing in my teaching style changed this semester. • We read entire paragraphs of text in class, so students don't have to do something on their own that wasn't covered during the lecture. • Students take a 10-question multiple-choice quiz at the end of every class (30% of the final grade). • Attendance is 95-99% every class. Attention during lectures and participation in pair-work activities are very high → anticipating the end-of-class quiz. *** But unfortunately, I suspect many students are not reading the material on the syllabus. They are asking LLMs to summarize it instead.*** After the midterm, students reported: • They thought they knew concept definitions but couldn't produce them on paper. • They thought they understood the arguments but struggled to connect them or identify points of agreement and disagreement. My view: It might be “cool” or “innovative” to teach students to summarize readings with ChatGPT or write essays with Claude. But we may be doing them a disservice: reducing their ability to retain material, think creatively, and reason from what they know. If you only read what AI has summarized for you, you don’t truly "know" the material. Moving forward: We have a second midterm coming up. I don't know how to convey to students that the best way to do better on the exam is to rely on and improve their own reading skills.
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I just gave a closed-book, pen-and-paper midterm exam in my 300-level course at UBC with 100 students. All exams were graded by an experienced graduate-level TA according to a rubric.
*** The average was 64/100.***
My class averages at UBC are usually 80-85.
Context:
• This was the first midterm, covering ONLY 4 weeks of material.
• Students had a list of possible questions in advance: no surprise questions.
• Questions included (a) 3 concept definitions, (b) 3 paragraph-long questions, and (c) a 1.5-page essay.
• I have taught this class multiple times. Nothing in my teaching style changed this semester.
• We read entire paragraphs of text in class, so students don't have to do something on their own that wasn't covered during the lecture.
• Students take a 10-question multiple-choice quiz at the end of every class (30% of the final grade).
• Attendance is 95-99% every class. Attention during lectures and participation in pair-work activities are very high → anticipating the end-of-class quiz.
*** But unfortunately, I suspect many students are not reading the material on the syllabus. They are asking LLMs to summarize it instead.***
After the midterm, students reported:
• They thought they knew concept definitions but couldn't produce them on paper.
• They thought they understood the arguments but struggled to connect them or identify points of agreement and disagreement.
My view:
It might be “cool” or “innovative” to teach students to summarize readings with ChatGPT or write essays with Claude. But we may be doing them a disservice: reducing their ability to retain material, think creatively, and reason from what they know. If you only read what AI has summarized for you, you don’t truly "know" the material.
Moving forward:
We have a second midterm coming up. I don't know how to convey to students that the best way to do better on the exam is to rely on and improve their own reading skills.
David Perell Clips@PerellClips
Ezra Klein: "Having AI summarize a book or paper for me is a disaster. It has no idea what I really wanted to know and wouldn't have made the connections I would've made. I'm interested in the thing I will see that other people wouldn't have seen, and I think AI typically sees what everybody else would see. I'm not saying that AI can't be useful, but I'm pretty against shortcuts. And obviously, you have to limit the amount of work you're doing. You can't read literally everything. But in some ways, I think it's more dangerous to think you've read something that you haven't than to not read it at all. I think the time you spend with things is pretty important." @ezraklein
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In C Thi Nguyen’s book “The Score” one of the big practical lessons for me is how this kind of titling limits your life.
There’s no perfect anything! This recipe might be great, but there are hundreds of ways to cook any dish, and just using one recipe makes your culinary world small
john sturgis@sturgios
The long running Felicity Cloake ‘How to cook the perfect x’ series is such a brilliant national resource. She road tests multiple existing recipes for what works or doesn’t so you don’t have to. This is her shepherds pie and I honestly don’t think I’ve ever had a better one
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