Chris Smith

@LucaAmb Slip? My understanding is that this is a consequence for egregiously abusive behavior, like inventing fictional references or data, or not even reading your own AI generated paper before submitting.

A lifetime arxiv ban (arxiving after pubs is meaningless) can completely wreck someone career Doing that for a single slip unconsequential slip on an otherwise good paper is completely reckless Society is changing fast, we need to support people. Not punish them.

@DimitrisPapail @BlancheMinerva @ChenhaoTan It's not about whether fraudulent papers exist. It's about the number of them. It is now dramatically easier to produce content that is relatively more difficult to recognize as fraudulent. Old processes caught relatively small amounts of problematic submissions.

@BlancheMinerva @ChenhaoTan there's been fraudulent papers on arxiv before LLMs. The burden on what is of value falls on the community, not on arxiv. The problem with policies like that is they add more burden on the maintainers with little (if at all) benefit, and added frustration on authors.

Found myself posting papers to GitHub instead of arXiv lately. No gatekeeping, is in the same repo as the code, one link for everything, and gets uploaded immediately. Makes you wonder what arXiv's actual value is.

User: Write me a story. AI: "There once was a girl named Anna. She had purple hair..." User: No, she shouldn't have purple hair. Try again. AI: "There once was a girl named Anna. She definitely didn't have purple hair. There wasn't a shred of purple on that head..."

Trying to think of a valid interpretation for this claim...

This is super cool: the NAND gate of scientific calculator functions. arxiv.org/abs/2603.21852

@LndamyDark Using "ask", "spend", or "creative" as a noun, or "action" as a verb

If shock collars were socially acceptable on managers. What corporate buzz words or phrases would they get shocked the most over?

@anxietymsgs "Mental health matters." But my 18 year old self ignores me.

You meet your 18 year old self, you’re allowed 3 words. What do you say?

@ronrule @JoeMastrosimone Are you okay with a local school board reviewing curriculum, sending admins to sit in on your homeschooling to check that it's up to the public's standards, or checking your qualifications and interviewing you? But you want us to pay you as if you were hired to do the job?

@JoeMastrosimone If you paved the road or maintain the town pool yourself, you should absolutely be exempt from paying taxes on that maintenance. If you’re literally doing the job yourself you shouldn’t also have to pay someone else to not do it.

If you homeschool your kids, you should be exempt from the portion of your property taxes that goes to the local schools.

@ronrule This is definitely a misunderstanding. Property taxes aren't the money you pay for your kids' education. They are the money you pay to live in a society where everyone has access to education. This is why even people without children pay it.

@Apolloknius @ramit With $12M, you can move somewhere quite comfortable, buy a $1M house, have $11M in investments, and safely live on $400K per year while still growing your investment faster than inflation. You never have to work again, even with a substantial family. That's wealth.

@ramit Well mainly because $12m isn't really wealthy. It's upper middle class in 2026 america. The difference between them and someone that is wealth is about a billion dollars.

I asked a couple their net worth: Julie: "If you include our primary residence, it's in the ballpark of 12 million." Ramit: "Have you ever said that number out loud?" Julie: "No, it makes me really uncomfortable." Ramit: "How would you describe yourself socio-economically?" Julie: "Upper middle class." Tom: "Take out the upper part and you're right." At $12 million, she describes them as "upper middle class." He thinks they're "middle class." Why do you think wealthy people find it so difficult to describe themselves as wealthy?

I've long had a full paid subscription to the @nytimes but I just just had to navigate four pages of popup ads and interstitials and tell it I don't want to upgrade to a family plan TWICE to access an article. What the hell is going on?

@VicVijayakumar I could see D or G. Anything else is hard to justify

There’s one obvious choice and no one in their right mind would pick anything else.

@Mike89755125974 @onlineinsane Yes, teaching flexible strategies for mental math does work. I've provided exactly as many studies as you did.

@onlineinsane Does anyone actually have studies that prove that this works in the long run? Everything that I have seen has shown a decrease in the quality of education, so maybe we should stop experimenting on our children and go back to methods proven to work.

I just published Athena Loses a Bet medium.com/p/athena-loses…

@RG_Leachman A few years ago I thought about wanting a keyboard sight reading trainer that generates a continuous stream of realistic sheet music in your zone of proximal development in terms of complexity, key, range, etc., adjusting as you play based on your accuracy.

I asked Claude to build my daughter an app that plugs into our piano, can read live key strokes, can show her sheet notes and key view and ends with a Guitar Hero style game. All while giving progressively harder songs. Today she’s using It and crushing It.

@OverlyTrev @MarkBurnside13 The reaction you're getting isn't to the 5 to 10 minutes of taking a small detour and pumping gas. It's to the absolutely laughably ridiculous claim that anyone would EVER drive 45 minutes to a gas station just to fill up and go home.

@MarkBurnside13 Even if you stop for 5 minutes while you’re out that’s still 5 minutes that a person with an EV doesn’t worry about charging at home. Charging at home I plug in takes a second and it charges while I sleep. You HAVE TO travel to get gas, this is not the case with EV’s.

There is a huge misconception when people claim it only takes 5 minutes to fill up a gas tank versus charging an EV. Here are the key considerations: 1. The typical time spent at a gas pump is 8–9 minutes, but it varies: - Circle K: 8.9 minutes - Sheetz: 11.5 minutes - Wawa: 11.4 minutes - Buc-ee’s: 20.3 minutes 2. Filling up requires driving to the station, which can take 10–45 minutes depending on your location and the nearest station. 3. Oil changes and maintenance take time and money (even if you do them yourself, you still have to buy oil and perform the work). EVs eliminate this entirely. 4. Home charging takes seconds to plug in, and you wake up to a full charge the next day. 5. In March, I spent $9 on electricity while current gas prices are $3.49/gallon—a savings of over $60 in fuel for the month. 6. Adding up time and money saved over a year comes to roughly 15–30 hours and over $750, and I don’t even drive that much. EV’s save you time and money and once you have one you’ll never go back to gas.

@OverlyTrev Yes, if you park near a power outlet and drive little enough and park at home often enough, electric cars are very convenient. If you drive long distances or don't park near an outlet, they are a bit of a pain. Tech will advance, but it's not all there yet.

@DrDominicNg Chess and large language models are solving very, very fundamentally different problems, though. Not saying you're wrong, but appealing to chess engines as "evidence" is pointless.

Chess is 30 years ahead of every other profession in dealing with AI. The best case study we have for what's coming. 4 lessons: 1. Human-AI collaboration had a 15-year shelf life in chess. "Human in the loop" is a phase.

@mainfxy @DudespostingWs It's a pair of dice. But still not a normal distribution. It's a triangular distribution.

@DudespostingWs Surprisingly, if it is a die, the probability of each outcome is equal, and there is no normal distribution.

@PeterBorbe I've seen this. It was in New Jersey, though, not China. Seemed like a cool idea until I realized I left my phone in the car and couldn't just walk back and get it

Ein Park-Roboter in China. Irgendwie verschlafen wir gerade das 21. Jahrhundert, früher wäre sowas von uns gekommen.