Sebahat Gök

and all that AI is inevitable talk... this very readiness to accept the technological determinism... my God... I will just make some tea.

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all the things I’ve got to do, yet I’m falling for this 🥹💕

you say, to advance the field, i should do, whaaat, i can't heeeeear youuuu heheh

YouTube video by PamTillisVEVO Pam Tillis - Don't Tell Me What To Do

the attitude: (the title applies; the actual lyrics don't).

reading a paper on how to ask good research questions, or something like this, and lately i've been noticing my body is increasingly giving reaction to metascience-y, preach-y work. it wasn't like this some years ago 🤷

new toys got me so excited 🥰

LLMs did some good things in my life, but they absolutely destroyed my enjoyment in reading anything online :'( the internet is dead :|

it says it does, but it didn't work. Luckily, I happened to download the codebook a few days ago, so things are not bleak. i just need to do a bit of manual work.

i thought i was filtering my code groups at ATLAS.ti, but it turns out i was deleting them. A great start to the weekend 👍

"I write because I have never managed to be happy. I write to be happy." (the end)

"I write because it is exciting to turn all of life's beauties and riches into words. I write not to tell a story, but to compose a story. I write because I wish to escape from the foreboding that there is a place I must go but—just as in a dream—I can't quite get there."(6)

"I write because I like to be read. I write because once I have begun a novel, an essay, a page, I want to finish it. I write because everyone expects me to write. I write because I have a belief in the immortality of libraries, and in the way my books sit on the shelf." (5)

"I write because it is a habit, a passion.I write because I am afraid of being forgotten.I write because I like the glory and interest that writing brings.I write to be alone.Perhaps I write because I hope to understand why I am so very, very angry at all of you, so very, very angry at everyone."(4)

"I write because I want others, the whole world, to know what sort of life we all lived, and continue to live, in Istanbul, in Turkey. I write because I love the smell of paper, pen, and ink. I write because I believe in literature, in the art of the novel, more than I believe in anything else."(3)

"I write because I am angry at all of you, angry at everyone. I write because I love sitting in a room all day writing. I write because I can only tolerate real life by changing it."(2)

pamuk's nobel speech also makes me 🥹. anyone who does some creative work as if it's a hiccup would relate: "‘Why do you write?’ I write because I have an innate need to write! I write because I can't do normal work like other people. I write because I want to read books like the ones I write."(1)

I’ve reached the end of another Pamuk novel. The beauty of his writing left me both happy and sad again.

In the end, what remains is a lose-lose game for Ottoman miniature painters.

Reading another one of these tonight. I probably shouldn’t be this triggered, but then again, perhaps LS folks shouldn’t contrast their work with experimental psychology if they’re not keeping up with what’s currently happening there.

so true both in art and science

i wouldn't be surprised if this generalizes to other disciplines

source: "Field Experiments in Education in Developing Countries
- Karthik Muralidharan"

"you typically only get to run the experiment once, and so it is essential to get all the thinking upfront. This may seem obvious, but the best experimental papers have a deceptive easiness about them that typically hides the large amount of thinking that goes into a well-done experiment."

reading a book chapter on how to conduct field experiments, and this line is a good warning when you're reading any paper with a method you haven’t personally used, but when you can still track its main ideas:

i like reading his work because he reminds us that education is a complex system, no individual is just smart enough to sit down and figure out how interventions are supposed to work, and systematic empirical work is the way to go.

I had LOVED reading Justin Reich’s ‘Failure to Disrupt’ that included lit review on how intuitions and hyping around ‘digital technologies transforming and democratizing education’ didn’t pan out. I’ve just started his newer book on iterative school innovation, and it’s so inspiring.

wow just done with this... after years of design tinkering, experimenting, and scripting when vibecoding was not a thing...

loved this analysis of a very talented miniature painter called Butterfly from his master's perspective.

it’s so heartbreaking to think of Iranian friends who haven't heard from their family for several days now 💔