Mary Beth Willard

How about based on anecdata? (It tracks.)

It always winds up tasting like a slightly confused bagel when I make it.

As a Certified Truck Owner who lives near a ski resort, there are plenty of people who spend all that money on an F-150 and the lift kit who can't drive in the snow. (At least in Texas there's a reason not to have snow tires.)

See also the entire effective altruism.

I am so glad someone besides me remembers that.

Snickers for All! Snickers before posting

Thank you! We're being told we need to teach how to prompt engineer papers. That takes an afternoon.

Twin theory: helicopter parenting emerges because every second 90s movie has an absent father or divorce as the plot.

Welcome to your mid forties

The humanities in particular are a slow fuse. In the vast majority of cases no one is getting hired for knowing calligraphy or Plato, but they might get promoted for having an inexplicable sense of design or just a way with words.

Any theory of American politics that doesn't start with the instinct to throw the bums out badly misses the mark

Yeah "berate" is probably strong, but given that one could donate *without* making it an object lesson, it just seems to be unnecessary

It's okay not to want to donate less than what you think is optimal, but using it to berate someone else who is probably on balance doing something good but suboptimal seems like bad form to me.

Emmie! Yay!!!!

From recent events, why would they need to make the trains run on time rather than simply lying and saying they did?

How would wearing a mask prevent an assault?

For my non-Utah friends, this is kind of a big deal. The Desert News is an LDS-oriented paper.

Hope springs eternal.

Time is the other factor -- can you do it *quickly*? That's the distinction. Think of a jump versus a slow step up to the same height.

(But yeah, the practical answer is usually "lift something heavier" and "jump".)

Not that much of a sports science nerd, but "power" measures how quickly you can generate force. And that's just strength and neuromuscular coordination.

It's the entire game.

There's a lot of overlap, due to one sect marching through another

Chorus is literally turning to the camera and saying "this is bad"

The Greeks absolutely had it right when they included a chorus in their plays. They knew audiences are dumbasses who need to be told “THIS MAN IS BAD. HE IS HERE AS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT *NOT* TO DO. WOE TO THE BUMPTIOUS FOOL WHO WOULD IDOLIZE HIM. YOU ARE NOT, NOR DO YOU WANT TO BE, ALEX DELARGE”

At my institution, the faculty senate executive committee has seven women (of nine members), five who are also simultaneously department chairs.

I must be missing something because the UCLA prof with the AI textbook is... not using it to replace TAs or de-skill the class or using it so she doesn't have to teach.

I'm sure they'll have enough executive directors to manage it

My $0.02 is: this is what they'll do when their PhD programs get cut. Anything to avoid teaching.

See, my worry is that it won't be inferior for long. And I don't want to reinforce the idea (as a philosopher) that the reason to read Plato rather than let ChatGPT do it is only that ChatGPT gets it wrong.

So you need to either a) find a new way to test what you're trying to teach or b) restrict the testing/writing environment.

But there's a model! Math bans calculators in some contexts but not in others.

The challenge: sometimes the point of writing something is just to summarize something for other people. We used to be able to test one aim (can you think) with another (can you write.). But now it's much easier to automate that latter task.