Sanmay Das

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

Thanks for an excellent talk! Great work

Friday night: the time when parents across this nation check to make sure that the correct color of jersey is clean and nobody lost a shin guard

Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers We align the aligners

This is good satire: alignmentalignment.ai

Lol, will take your word for it!

Also they do all this bio and chemistry stuff, but no math! Monotonic! Affine!

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

All the Apps You Need to Keep Up with Your Child’s Youth Baseball Team This Summer Dear parents, We are thrilled to have your child on our summer baseball team. We have a few apps we use to help keep things organized around here, ...

"You’ll also want to download SportsYouth to communicate with the parents of team members. Many of the games require your child to arrive at 4:30 p.m., even though you need to work until 5 p.m."

Although, also, mangos are one of the easiest fruits to cut and eat??

Dasheri - Wikipedia

I have to inform you, though, that the flavor and aroma of the Dasheri are unmatched (with citation!) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasheri — my local store has flown in boxes of both the last couple of years :)

Hello!

Reading this at face value, on top of everything else, “immigration” is a “form of discrimination?!”

Ah, I found the post I was thinking of! bsky.app/profile/fili...

I saw someone posting about college and cheating in other countries (I wish I remembered where/who) and basically I agree with the idea that we need to (in higher ed) go back to exam-based assessment with no Internet access, etc. Which I sort of hate, but, yeah…

But there’s also this: we don’t let second graders use calculators when learning arithmetic. We don’t give sixth graders access to the Internet when answering reading comprehension questions…maybe we can double down on why what we’re teaching (without LLMs) is important? When it is, that is…

This also just sounds like the vision of the Taliban? Among many others, of course, with minor changes in details, and the role of tech…

Thoughtful take on one aspect of the increasing problem of LLMs leading to “centralization” of thought/writing/etc.

Once I figure out my utility function I’ll work on that 🤣

I think at least @profwinikoff.bsky.social is on your side! I, like a good game theorist, randomize

Let’s Remember Why There’s a System of Federal Research Grants to Universities This is largely preaching to the choir. But it’s absent enough from...

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Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.

Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.

Thankfully, having grown up in India, I am well-versed in the benefits of what we used to call “Morarji Cola” after a former prime minister who extolled the benefits of “urine therapy.”

Bonus 133: Due Process and the Rule of Law Too many Americans don't understand, at a basic level, *why* the Constitution requires due process when the government deprives anyone of their life, liberty, or property.

If a non-citizen has no right to contest their removal because the government claims that they’re in a Venezuelan gang, what’s to stop the government from claiming that *we’re* in a Venezuelan gang?

That’s the most elementary reason why due process matters:

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"Let's not take the soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular. I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am."

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

No they do not, New York Times! This is like writing that Santa Claus has IBS.

An excellent and timely piece!

Shlomo Zilberstein (2025 Autonomous Agents Research Award) - ACM SIGAI The selection committee for the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Professor Shlomo Zilberstein is the recipient of the 2025 award. Shlomo Zilberstein is Professor…

ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award 2025 goes to

Prof. Shlomo Zilberstein for his work on decentralized Markov Decision Processes used in decision-theoretic planning in multi-agent systems and multi-agent reinforcement learning.

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They already tried, with MOOCs. We were told we'd need only like 5 universities to produce "the best" content, the rest could shut down and everyone could learn from MOOCs instead. Which showed exactly how much they understood about education, learning, humans, and other things not measured in bits.