Dez Miller

Was just thinking today that I would love a new Kelly Reichardt movie and then found out about the Mastermind. Maybe my 7yo self was right, maybe I do have powers.

Where are all my other unparented sixth children at? I remind myself of this whenever I find someone much more accomplished than me in my (finally) chosen field is a near decade younger. We take our time us feral ones but I gotta believe we bring a lil something else to the table because of it.

Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.

Found a new experience that rivals childbirth for pain level—getting stung by a yellow jacket several times in the tongue. Poor guy just wanted some of my PB&J

Becoming Human by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson

This looks so good!!

YouTube video by MSNBC ‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

'I want his name to be known': Wife of immigrant injured at ICE facility shooting speaks out Stephany Gauffeny says she wants the world to know that her husband, Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, is more than "just an immigrant or a detainee, or a criminal."

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED:

I just unlocked a new level of rage.

www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

Update of a paper first submitted in June. Still worth thinking about!

One of the reasons this will be valuable for academics is that it provides a very clear recipe for pretraining ~3B-scale models on custom corpora.

It’s meant to be a joke…this is the unfortunate state of my life atm

One thing I learned in my PhD program that I think applies to everyone is you should pretty much only read things that can directly inform a writing project

The folks who did the most work during that time are long graduate now, and won’t get to reap the benefits of this contract. They worked for this because unionization is the right thing to do for workers everywhere.

I’m very happy, and very happy to have a piece of news to be happy about

I remember being in a zoom room with maybe four other people in 2020 and 2021, talking about what we could possibly do

Students have been working for this for about ten years, keeping the flame alive through the first trump administration and the pandemic despite so many setbacks.

Emory’s grad union (the first grad union in Georgia) just ratified our first contract.

my article from last year: sciendo.com/article/10.2...

Seems to me that their results would've been stronger with access to a HTRC environment, providing strong metadata attached to texts (2/2)

Fascinating that this study from a psych perspective used google n-grams to get word counts for nature-based words as one of their measures for "nature-connectedness" over time. Similar research question to my paper measuring the intimacy of river-related words in Hathi Trust corpus.... 1/2

Why is it that most women’s button up shirts are like here’s a nice shirt but with some random baby stuff on it

Here’s my bottom line on the firehose of AI higher ed discourse: for the vast majority for us it’s over. “It” here is not “college” or “teaching”’per se; rather, “it” is the transactional underpinning of those endeavors. Let me explain: 🧵

I very much appreciate this thread. What about though, a return to ole pen and paper? Not something I ever considered before this past semester.

You just store the environment as a kernel and then in jupyter notebook you can activate the kernel and it's all there. It definitely took some time for me to get used to it, and sometimes it feels easier to just do a bunch of pips but for long term projects I like it.

I use anaconda and the way I use it is to organize all my libraries in the anaconda navigator software. It's a nice way to set up environments and then be able to scan what you've got in there and what versions, etc. Then if you need to update a library, you don't have to clog up your script...

Janet Planet is a perfect film

A nuanced depiction of how AI insinuates itself into one's thinking patterns...https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/opinion/ai-chatgpt-school.html...I'm thinking the next class I teach will be in-person essays except for the final essay. I wish I knew more about what other people are concretely doing?

Not to mention his sarcastic giggle

Dez Miller

I have historically made music and maybe will again, someday dezmediah.bandcamp.com

Would love to see a history of this capitalization-as-emphasis style in contemporary U.S. The top users of it appear to be this guy and my uncle Dale from north Georgia.