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Here's the radio station website: https://www.sealionradio.org Under the site's FAQ for “ Is this a livestream? ” > Not yet, maybe someday. You’re listening to a set of field recor…

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101040

"Works" means "results in better average scores on exams". A fine thing, but it seems like every take I here on explicit instruction versus inquiry-based learning is so basic, thes…

For readers not working in academia, this essay and it's prequel provide a window into one aspect of the bureaucractic nightmare currently underlying US higher education.

I'm surprised company reputation, as a metric, doesn't come up more often in discussions of enshittification. This post is spot on, but the author only focuses on the negative exte…

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49091153s

The final section of this offer only general "Universities should..." advice — nothing concrete. I worry that the major barrier to addressing this issue is the technical competence…

Did anyone else, at the beginning of a new term at university, download local copies of all the course materials from the course LMS page?

Isn't this surrogation of university degrees for worthiness of employment getting absurd? A PhD holder is supposed to be on the frontier of some domain of knowledge. As human knowl…

Jacob Tsimerman appears to be very thoughtful about AI's impact on research mathematics. The headline though serves as a bad omen for academia.

The article doesn't attempt to answer the question in the title, but instead, more journalistically, quotes some mathematicians discussing the topic. I think what bothers me when a…

I wish it were clear that someone wrote this article. It's posted under the Aventine [1] substack which is maintained by Danielle Mattoon, but did she write it? [1]: https://www.av…

A vibe-coded PreTeXt editor webapp. Okay. GitHub link at the bottom 404s, but presumably intends to link here: https://github.com/harsharajkumar-273/Proofdesk

Already posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945390

Appears to be crankery

The (boring) answer to "who gets the prize?" is whoever the CMI decides gets the prize. https://www.claymath.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/millenni...

I also think about this, and worry about this. My go-to example is that the file-system in Windows used to clearly be a tree, and the file explorer was how you traversed this tree.…

Right?! It's a bummer when a nice-looking website is now a red flag. It's become part of my workflow now browsing the web to check the About/Contact page on a website immediately; …

For anyone interested in Grothendieck's opinions on kimchi … https://mikepierce.github.io/grothendieck-kimchi/translation...

They're most definitely trying to ride on the recent anti-technology in school push.

It's about ensuring "academic honesty" on exams. Also, it's nice to have buttons rather than a touchscreen. Also, there is something to be said about using a device with a differen…

Sniff test: a paper with a single author and 53 revisions, listing a gmail address as contact information despite the author, after a brief internet search, appearing to have affil…

It appears Apple/iTunes has already responded. He's no longer on the Top 100: USA list: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/top-100-usa/pl.606afcbb7...

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> Putting it all together isn’t a trivial task, […] the team offers training from its researchers and support throughout the building process. The training would take up to three m…