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yeah but not in a US cops version of their place in the analogy

I've become convinced that AI models have no concept of 'white space' or cognitive load which is something technically minded folks have already seemed to underappreciate so it is …

So with some searching… In the UK you can apply to upto five colleges. In the US the recommendation seems to be between 5-8

Looking at this without consideration for two factors (number of applicants and the number of applications per applicant) is borderline malpractice. I can’t pull older numbers on m…

Having dealt with this with a couple of family members, set it a similar system for my spouse and I, and also been tech support for numerous friends doing somethign similar I'll pr…

I think this is the larger point that is easy to miss. Thinking about this as slashing science or making it more efficient or short sighted or innovative is all a distraction. It’s…

Worth noting this is pretty standard university PR. It is written with author involvement so it’s likely technically correct but it is aimed at getting it picked up so it often mak…

I’m going to keep it vague beyond saying that I don’t have to worry about going bankrupt from healthcare.

Why assume that this is about finding a job? I happily had a job in academia in the US. Probably what most would call “successful” after exiting a startup and getting a PhD I was U…

The aesthetic very much feels like the whole earth catalog revisited…

Except the housing market, especially the rental market, is still significantly driven by small rental property owners and is a significant source of generational wealth transfer. …

There is a nother factor worth mentioning in the admissions piece - the proababilistic accuracy in admissions alongside massive increases in the number of applications students sen…

I'm with you and have said this a long time. We* are responsible for the government that acts in our name and we should bear the costs of its abuse. The Sheriff did not have the po…

It seems like some better basic metrics should be made front and center with PRs in this day and age. Yes AI is the driving force behind the current crop of problems but there are …

At least in my state the actually high risk portion of their job…dealing with traffic collisions on the highway…is being outsourced to non police “hero units” Tells me we can chang…

In a sense you aren’t wrong but those analogies fail at scale. It’s like saying you could replace all hr functions with a spreadsheet. They are large databases yes but they do a lo…

Because faculty didn’t want to do it anymore. They want it handled by others but also they want oversight and veto power but also they don’t want to be bothered. But it better alwa…

our instance went from [insert hacker leet text] to "down for scheduled maintenance" and myself and other faculty are just having the darkest humor about this.

It is absolute chaos at my institution. This is the last day of finals and grades are due Monday morning. Most faculty are spending today, tomorrow, and through the weekend finaliz…

Its a blog post from the WalletWallet team about the upcoming changes that have only been reported by Bloomberg news

A gay mobile kitchen?

If we are going to say violence isn’t okay then it is important that we be clear about the boundaries of what we define as violence. Theft is a nice analogy here. The default model…

From liability! If this were to actually happen I can only imagine financial liability is the least of their concerns? What scares me most about this is the narrowness of thought t…

I read this twice thinking it was an April fools joke I wasn’t getting.

and I imagine that if the INVERSE of this case had come up, the police suing for defamation would have been protected by qualified immunity so no lawsuit would have been possible. …