Sameer Deshpande

You know that thing Coco Chanel said about accessories?

“Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off”

We should all do that but with about 50% of the text we put in slide decks.

TAKE. IT. OUT.

Go to a gym, press some buttons to have robots lift the weights, then wonder why you’re not any stronger

Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.

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Nothing like a Landry Shift on Thanksgiving.

Your #DallasCowboys beat the 2 Super Bowl teams from last year in 5 days!!!!!

Dak is insane.

Students applying for grad school, or reaching out to professors. I have an important piece of advice for you: STOP DOING THIS 👇 (a thread) #STEM #PhD #gradschool #academictips

Be authentic.

1/Articulated, coherent explanation of why you're interested in that lab's particular focus: extra points. This is rare.

2/Statement that you're just interested in the general area: no extra points but plenty get hired with just this.

3/Word salad that looks like BS: negative points

Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots

In more AI bubble news, major insurers are declining to insure risks from AI chatbots & agents, saying AI models are too unpredictable & error-prone with no one clearly liable when things go wrong. Firms & universities better consider this in their rush to adopt AI.
www.ft.com/content/abfe...

Lmaooo the Cowboys social team is on fire tonight.

Cowboys vs. Eagles third quarter recap: Dallas shows life and down 21-14 Here is what happened in the third quarter of Sunday’s Cowboys/Eagles game.

The Dallas Cowboys completed an epic comeback on Sunday to keep their playoff hopes alive.

They thoroughly embarrassed the fraudulent Philadelphia Eagles.

Happy Thanksgiving week! www.bloggingtheboys.com/dallas-cowbo...

The Dallas Wings will have the No. 1 pick in the 2026 WNBA Draft 🌟

BACK-TO-BACK NO. 1 PICKS 👏

The Dallas Wings will have the No. 1 pick in the 2026 WNBA Draft 🌟

This Sounds from the Sideline is go so hard.

Dak Prescott, George Pickens, Osa Odighizuwa, James Ferguson. Brandon Aubrey are even greater Americans 🤷🏾‍♂️🤠

2026 Best of Statistical Science Workshop (BOSS 2026) The Department of Statistics at Texas A&M invites you to join us for the 2026 Best of Statistical Science Workshop (BOSS 2026)! BOSS 2026 bring...

The Dept. of Statistics at Texas A&M invites you to the 2026 Best of Statistical Science Workshop ( #BOSS2026 ). BOSS 2026 brings together experts, faculty, and students for engaging discussions, presentations, and networking.

See the website 👇 for details.

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NARRATOR: Roth quite clearly did not name call & we need our leaders to stop granting <every bad faith premise> of the far right authoritarians' lawless assault on higher education before we push back.

Btw, it does not matter if he’s smart or a good economist (if you think that). There are lots of people good at their jobs who do not harass and abuse other people!

It’s centered around what is formally a posterior mean wrt a symmetric Beta prior. I think if you use the mean +/- 2 sd heuristic you’ll back out the Beta(2,2) prior. But i don’t think it is the highest density credible interval or necessarily corresponds to nicely-rounded posterior quantiles.

As one Massachusetts school administrator recently said; this moment with AI is remarkably like the moment when we were introduced to asbestos. Yes, it had some remarkably promising characteristics – fireproofing! – and had some real utility in science, research, and industrial applications. But a profit-driven industry bullied us into inserting it everywhere; into our homes and schools and public spaces, before we really understood the risks. This resulted in decades, if not centuries, of illness, injuries, deaths, and the astronomical financial burden of trying to remove the stuff. As you, the leaders and policymakers in our schools, craft an AI policy for our district, we the undersigned call on you to: 1. Ban AI tools into the classroom, protect our students and teachers from de-skilling and allow them the space and time to engage in assignments themselves. 2. Resist any direct financial relationship or contracts with AI providers, as well as the “training” they might offer. 3. Provide a digital literacy curriculum to help students navigate the current digital landscape, and promote critical engagement with technology. 4. Guarantee that anywhere generative AI has already entered our classrooms or curriculum, an opt-out will allow students and teachers to refuse the use of these products at no risk to their grades, progress or employment.

Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...

One more week to submit a contributed talk proposal!
Looking forward to seeing everyone in Nagoya next summer

uhhh this actually reminds me a lot of how LLMs function at a basic level too - predicting tokens based on proximity & context, etc 😬 ...so we're teaching kids to read like AI & saying AI level is good enough

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Good riddance to Nico Harrison, the personification of everything that’s going on. Blew up something good because he didn’t understand it and it didn’t conform to his vision of toughness. One of the clearest pictures of Everyone Is 12 Now ever produced. Untold damage to my psyche. Enjoy podcasting.

This and the Adelsons sell.

This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

As recently as the late 1980s, tuition at @uwmadison.bsky.social was <$1000/semester. In current dollars, that's about $2500/semester. There is one central reason for that: the <massive decline in state funding>. This was a choice. Other choices remain readily available.

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