John Gallagher

Noice! Congrats!

It makes it exponentially worse because Rogan is so boring.

If you splice words it could be:

Hope

lol worst portmanteau

Here is the change that I think we could see from GenAI in higher education: longer class time with less homework. Maybe we'll see a 9 hour class per week without anything outside of class.

Classic journalistic malpractice: using anecdotes to produce a generalization about culture.

I can’t help but feel we are living a transactional society. The media report about the price of oil impacting pocketbooks as the result of the Iran war. They ignore death and destruction. The complete annihilation of seeing oneself as living with others. Rote solipsism.

The non-random pickle of AI writing Jinx is a game when two people say the same word at the same time.

New blog post!

"The non-random pickle of AI writing"

I wrote about the game of jinx, the necessity of human conversations, and the non-random ways that LLMs write. I hope you enjoy. Please subscribe and share.

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The non-random pickle of AI writing Jinx is a game when two people say the same word at the same time.

New blog post!

"The non-random pickle of AI writing"

I wrote about the game of jinx, the necessity of human conversations, and the non-random ways that LLMs write. I hope you enjoy. Please subscribe and share.

meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-non-ra...

What coders lose by relying on AI. From our event with the University of Washington Office of Public Lectures.

(with @emilymbender.bsky.social)

I'm convinced that the COVID pandemic memory-holed how truly rudderless the first Trump administration was. People remembered, "Stock market high and interest rates low!" and that's about it.

just throwing this out here.

Literature reviews are tremendously important to both writer and reader of them.

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My research institute, the Tracy Farmer Institute for Sustainability and the Environment, is rolling out a new flagship program: the Tracy Farmer Scholars!

UKY undergrad, grad, and professional students can apply for up to $6,000 in research funding. Apps due 3/27.

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Photos of Volume Editors for the book ADEQUATE

"Adequacy as the timber of utopic envisioning. What might it look like to imagine labor beyond as it is typically understood within the contexts of higher education?"

Volume Editors are in the house! #4C26 @upcolorado.bsky.social @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social @joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social

Reading about ML ablations reminds me of back nerve ablations. And they’re not not the same thing.

Waking at 4:30 means that 8 am feels like the afternoon

F) people assume LLMs have a world model when what they are actually is more like massive search engines using gradient decent.

Look these machines are useful. No doubt. An openly sourced free academically built LLM is my ideal. I hope we get it.

E) I want the output to be cited; how marvelous would it be if they cited but that likely reveals their IP violations.

A) I don’t see this. B) Claude is a better programmer than me. C) The argument I see is around people’s ability to think being degraded. D) people‘s lived experience means they can’t trust the output so it actually doesn’t make them more efficient, it just raises their boss’ expectations.

“dad did you eat the entire wheel of Brie!?”

Remember in 2024 all those papers that began with an introduction and then *reveals like a magician* it was AI? That was when our college seniors were sophomores.

"I don't want to shame students. I want to shame Jeff Bezos" is something I said during a presentation I gave today. But really that's my politics when it comes to GenAI: recognize the social and cultural force of AI boosterism. Soft on people, hard on structure (and billionaires).

Here is my response to the idea of AI writing a literature review.

bsky.app/profile/john...

genuine question: what does “do“ mean here? That’s a very general verb, operationalizing multiple actions.

You know, I think I vaguely remember you doing something like this (like, 1.5 decades ago?!)

One of the things that works well for improving student writing: real-time live editing (RTLE). Students email you their writing. Then put it up on a screen; everyone sits close. Narrate as you edit the paragraph. Students find this helpful. We rarely SEE people write or narrative their choices.

I love the "ziploc squeezy beef"

YouTube video by Noel Deyzel Bro eats beef out a bag😭 #mealprep

www.youtube.com/shorts/zJlzy...

YouTube video by Noel Deyzel Bro eats beef out a bag😭 #mealprep

www.youtube.com/shorts/zJlzy...

Quote: "You're new here, ain'tcha, kid? Well, on some days the sandwiches contain a dead scorpion. ... Not every day,
but some days-that's why it's hell, kid."

This remains my all time favorite farside