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I very much like this analogy. Thank you for making this clearer in my mind.

We've discussed Cohen's work in our book _Calling Bullshit_, but the type of bullshit the Cohen focuses on — unclarifiable unclarity, particularly in academic writing — is not what…

That's entirely true. We've tried hard to stick with general principles that we don't think will readily be overturned. But doubtless we've been too assertive for some people's tas…

Yep, I probably did. I really appreciate all of the feedback people are providing!

Yes! First, thank you for the link about CoT misrepresentation. I've written a fair bit about this on Bluesky etc but I don't think much if any of that made it into the course yet.…

This is an excellent point about scientific writing. We'll add something to that effect. We have not taught this course from the web-based materials yet, but it distills much of th…

This is something we've given serious consideration, having taught a course called "Calling Bullshit" ( http://callingbullshit.org ) for almost a decade and having authored a book …

You're right of course. In the original drafts I had a long section on this, including some of the history of the GUI, the development of the mouse, etc. It was way too much for th…

After talking to an awful lot of 18-20 year olds (our target audience) we decided we wanted to go with a "scrollytellying" style. I'm not a designer and I've done worked in that st…

I'm surprised at the firefox problems; I did almost all the development in firefox. I know it's not your job to fix any of this, but if you are so inclined I'd be grateful for an e…

Many comments about this, so I'll address them here. We talked extensively with the 18-20 year olds who make up our target demographic and this "scrollytelling" style is their stro…

Yes—I should have stressed that. More than anything, we've talked at great lengths about LLMs with over a thousand undergraduate students who we have taught in our courses since Ch…

We asked our target audience, 19-year-olds. They had a strong preference for this style. I know....

Thank you, and as a non-designer, I've been quite impressed with Shorthand in the short time I've been using it.

Absolutely. Great point. I just finished updating accordingly. My design options are a bit limited so I went with a simple link to the next lesson.

Thank you very much — fixed!

Jevin West and I are professors of data science and biology, respectively, at the University of Washington. After talking to literally hundreds of educators, employers, researchers…