If you click, at the bottom you can comment on the content of the page. BTW, have they considered the radar clutter of off-shore oil rigs? Trump's hatred of wind turbines has reached a new ridiculous height.

Not only this, but for teaching purposes, you have to *already know the thing* to properly verify LLM outputs. It takes expertise and discernment, which means students by definition cannot do it. This is my problem with “teach them AI skills” position—there are no AI skills without actual skills

I will keep saying this. If you bought a calculator and it EVEN ONCE told you 2+2=5, you’d throw it out and demand a refund. If you had an employee who lied confidently to you, and was easily caught, you’d fire them. LLMs are the untrustworthy calculator and the confident liar. Fire them.

Let's hear it for inadequately regulated AI. A driver needs to pass a basic test to get a license, the waymo would fail.

Encouraging undergraduates to *start* with AI, robs them of the skills they need to begin learning how to be a history detective. And when you move up to the graduate level, AI doesn't have access to actual archives. And it cannot produce new knowledge. *YOU* have to do that.

When I call AI "cancer" I do so because it spreads and kills in the exact same way as its biological counterpart.

Heh.

Four attacks for the world's most powerful military to sink a speedboat?

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Georgia Power, back in July, said "no rate increases for a few years." Of course, they were trying to help out the GOP incumbents on the PSC (they lost). Now, Georgia Power says "we need to build lots of plants for data centers, so rate increase." Why don't data centers pay to build plants?

According to a children's book I saw yesterday, the Moon is held in the sky by gravity. Did I miss something? Is that a common idea?

IEEE and Girl Scouts Are Working on Getting Girls Into STEM spectrum.ieee.org/ieee-and-gir...

#iTeachPhysics #glowscript #webvpython Banked curve homework was turned in, so I added the force summation to the animation. Used labels for the first time. Code here glowscript.org#/user/burnsk...

Why is it that Israeli attacks on Gaza are "tests" of the ceasefire? Seems the ceasefire is basically toast.

What a surprise #AI

In lab a group was using google colaboratory (python online) to plot and fit some data, the plot was wrong. We could not see the problem, so I reluctantly let a student use Gemini. Alas, Gemini found the error (a local vs global variable). My worldview is shaken.

Did not get a picture, but briefly saw a second arc above (not too far above) a 22 degree halo above the sun. Second arc was also curved down. Parry arc? Found out that my students were not familiar with sun dogs, showed one student them after class, plus a bit of halo.

AAUP rocks. Glad I joined.

I hope the bosses at Columbia, Brown, and Cornell feel sick now and realize that they have betrayed their universities. Resignations seem in order.

#iTeachPhysics A group asked how many trials they should do, four or five, so I said... (even with the hand movements, good for a laugh).

Temporary intro lab crisis when a rescue hero action figure was missing, adverted when I found another one in squirrelled away in my lab, that I got at a yard sale. Bungee jumping... #iTeachPhysics (bet chemists never have this problem)

Just a small animation, to help the students visualize a car going around a banked curve for an assignment next week. Code at trinket.io/glowscript/7...

It's not just New York. Here in Georgia, in a major upset, two Democrats flipped statewide seats on a simple message: keeping the lights on doesn't have to mean skipping groceries.

Georgia Public Service Commission was the only state-wide race on our ballot (delayed by lawsuit). Two of five seats, in a state controlled by Republicans. In both races, the Democrat crushed the incumbent Republican, 62% to 38%. Leaves three Republican seats, but it's a start and a ray of hope.

Only race on the ballot today is Public Service Commission, and that only because it was delayed by a lawsuit. Two districts but statewide election (see lawsuit). Kudos to @hankgreen.bsky.social for weighing in on a Georgia fairly obscure election.

Dear Physicists and Physics fans, I would like to encourage you to celebrate #WomenInPhysics Day this Friday, November 7th. Why November 7th? Because it is the birthday of two of the most impactful women physicists of the 1900's: Marie Curie and Lise Meitner. 🎢 ⚛️ 🧪 👩‍🔬

In Thermal Physics, the students said they had trouble visualizing a 3d standing wave--I did show them a 2d wave. We'll see if this helps. Code at www.glowscript.org#/user/burnsk... #iTeachPhysics #webvpython #glowscript

So apparently the new word for "teacher" is "instructional work-force". Whatever.

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

This is what happens when political appointees, in charge of an agency that uses science, don't understand basic physics. Good grief, what a waste of resources.

Not a change of course, he simply lied before.

(for later calculations of the tension). The rope was only 6 m long, students were clearly shocked I reached about a foot (height went higher than that, angle was about 15 degrees).

The rope pull demo went well today. Two students pull hard horizontally on the ends of a rope, I stand in the middle and lift up the rope. For good measure, I stand on a force plate and we measure the height I pull the rope and the length 1/2

DARTMOUTH OUT! We are at 6 rejections. Vanderbilt is the only private left standing "considering" the compact along with UT Austin and the University of Arizona.

Well-deserved.

Finally we get to vote for PSC. Choose wisely.

Nice example of angular size.

#iTeachPhysics Using this in class next week for uniform circular motion.

It appears that my employer, Dartmouth, one of the Trump 9, has said no to the compact. All the better given that our president is cited within it. But she’s saying no. Count the small victories when they come.

I think for me the most compelling answer for "why fund basic research?" (and the one most relevant to the people doing the work) is that humans are curious and finding stuff out makes us happy and fulfilled. Science is a thing humans like. Life would be more dull and sad if we didn't do it. end/🧵

'Nuff said.

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James Talarico flips the script on MAGA

Regardless of the disgraceful nonsense we will likely hear from this administration in the coming days on vaccine “recommendations,” Americas healthcare insurers issued a joint statement tonight saying coverage for Covid and flu shots will remain unchanged from prior years. Speaks for itself.

Nobel laureate Irène Joliot-Curie was born 128 years ago today. She and her husband co-discovered artificial radiation in 1934, for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize. She was also the first woman to become a minister in France. tinyurl.com/3je86wjm #WomenInSTEM #ChemSky #Physics 🧪

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Just gonna drop this here tonight wapo.st/3VKVNT2