"The obvious answer—climate change driven by greenhouse gases—is the correct one." 🌍 www.economist.com/science-and-...

That’s Prof Dr Dynarski tyvm

First class artwork as usual

5. with very large n‘s you don‘t need randomization.

At this point, people are just spouting their pet methods. This discourse is so 2019 Twitter.

PhD student training in the age of AI: "Coach" vs "Lab" models open.substack.com/pub/jasonmfl...

Lüften is life

HBS' latest filing in the Gino lawsuit contains a few new details: 1. A committee of 26 professors, admins, and fellows reviewed the allegations, and *unanimously concluded* that there was *clear and convincing evidence* of research misconduct.

Am I the only one who's too lazy to practice talks, unless they really matter – or are very short, you always have to practice short talks? 🙈

New fixed point theorem just dropped?

No @khoavuumn.bsky.social, don't post these bangers in the cesspool 😭

We have to suffer for our sins

Läden, die nur mit handschriftlichen Notizen und Bargeld arbeiten 🤔

If you're an undergrad who wants to volunteer in a lab, writing a well-informed email does nothing now. You have to spill coffee on the professor in an elevator or push them out of the path of a truck.

what on EAAAAAAARTTTTTTHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Liebe Süddeutsche, "Schönen Tag," nicht "Schöner Tag!"

"A special spicy one for you," as Sor Hands would say.

Hello world 👋

Science advances one retirement at a time, hopefully.

So far, there hasn't been much interest

Interesting paper on the Ramadan effect on cognitive performance onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Rare red warning. Risk to life. Stay out of the sun. Avoid unnecessary exposure. Picture editor: "Counterpoint: Run the fun-on-the-beach shots?" We won't improve heat coverage until we stop illustrating public health emergencies with beach photos. www.independent.co.uk/weather/heat...

I seriously hope we'll be smarter this time.

Der Bahn ist es mal wieder zu heiß. Aus der Serie: Der Bahn ist es mal wieder zu kalt Der Bahn ist es mal wieder zu nass Der Bahn ist es mal wieder zu windig Der Bahn ist es mal wieder zu verschneit Lasst die Italiener auf die Schiene

Need

Wow, was für eine Story

Happy Solstice! Although we'll be losing daylight bit by bit from here until Dec 22, sunset will continue to be as late or later until July 4.

My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday

The demise of American intellectual gravity will be bad for most American scholars…but fantastic for those with travel budgets This is not really a joke

The Economist summarizes the Krugman-Aghion debate on European living standards vis-à-vis America. economist.com/finance-and-...

Poisson derived his distribution P(x|t)=exp(-Lt) (Lt)^x (1/x!) as a limiting case of binomial. Fine. But there is an axiomatic derivation that explains why the function looks like that. I can't smoosh it into this post, but it is pages 4-5 of this old Jaynes paper bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles...

BBC article about Brian Ripley of the #RStats Core team given this week's excellent news concerning 2026 Rousseeuw Price for Statistics recognition for him and the core team. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Die Gleichsetzung von CDU und AfD ist inhaltlich falsch, geschichtsvergessen und mit Blick auf die Verteidigung der Demokratie gefährlich.

Happy🎂to Siméon Poisson b #OTD 1781 (d 25 Apr 1840) His name is most associated with the Poisson distribution, developed to model jury decision-making. It gained traction in 1898 with Bortkiewicz’s analysis of Prussian horse kick data. But it is another example of Stigler’s Law of Eponomy 1/3

I'm actually still driving my mum's old gpt 3.5 turbo. Still goes

The fact that the winner gets to choose the music might be the biggest punishment of all. Just imagine the Dutch blasting "Toeter Op Mijn Waterscooter" after beating us 3–2 in overtime.

"Der Zug hat keine Bremse" im Stadion in Toronto 🙈

Watching the German team reminded me that I should figure out where my Joachim Löw Lego minifigure is (Lego made a blind bag set for the German team after they won the 2014 World Cup, and I bought a few and got Löw and a few other guys)

The world is bleak right now, but I am more and more convinced that, if we can get through this rough patch, we can transcend our current problems to a sci-fi-esque, post-scarcity future Keep your chin up, keep fighting, we increasingly have the tools to build paradise, don't give up

I call Elon Musk a Nazi because he's an avowed white supremacist who undermines democracies, incites pogroms, targets minorities, intentionally caused the death of >750,000 people (so far) while laughing about it ("feeding USAID into the wood chipper"), and did a Sieg Heil at Trump's inauguration.

An exceptional talent like Steve Perry deserved better songwriting

No disrespect, Australia, but "Our land abounds in nature's gifts"???

Oh so now you're into soccer all of a sudden

"Look, we prefer to avoid certain topics here"

More evidence, from a large-scale study in China, that using AI hurts learning if it undermines mental effort. When homework time drops due to AI use, so do test scores. Across studies, there is a clear theme: AI tutoring in support of classes is good, using AI to "help" with homework is bad.

While I wholeheartedly agree with the mechanism of action, one cannot ignore that the pressures within are a function of pressures outside the academy. External pressure from taxpayers and tuition-payers have led to a transactional metric-driven university. You get what you pay for.

Upon becoming tenured: “Tenure committees recognize true academic excellence.” One year later, looking at new tenure cases:

Right-wing influencers realizing they're being emotionally manipulated by propaganda online. What a wild timeline.