Jason Gantenberg

Why We Should Be Reading Paul Churchland Right Now The more I get into philosophical and philosophy-adjacent discussions of current-generation "artificial intelligence" (large language models and the like), the more dismayed I am not to see any discus...

Why I think, in the current A.I. moment, we should be reading Paul Churchland. #philsky #philsci

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In case you ever wondered about the differences between magrittr pipe and base pipe 🤔

This table is taken from a great stackoverflow answer by @GeorgKindermann

stackoverflow.com/questions/67...

#rstats #dataviz #phd

I've found JabRef to be a pretty good interface for managing a big bibtex database. Customizable and capable of addressing many of the issues summarized here. Even still, I almost always have to make tweaks to the local .bib files I pull off for individual papers.

Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not more criminal, they don't cost jobs, they don't harm the economy. There is no reason for any of this. It is hurting ourselves to hurt them.

CreepyLink Make your links look as suspicious as possible

This is hilarious: creepylink.com

@gorskon.bsky.social comes to mind

The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.

Welcome to the shithole.

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Beautiful bow echo!

We had a few of these squall line systems in Illinois years back. Created big derecho events. I'm happy I don't have to worry about storm season in New England!

Dunno. I think this list is pretty wack. Ferrell and Stiller belong nowhere on it. No *Life of Brian*, no *Ghostbusters*. Lebowski and others ranked way too low (below *The Waterboy*?!). Missing essential Chaplin, Anderson, Cohens. *Office Space* could replace a handful of the '90s picks.

Losing to Richard Ayoade is a great honor!

Heyo! Gemini 3 Pro actually does the tool call. gemini.google.com/share/f88a98...

The "Crafting a Fake Persona" step in Gemini 3 Pro's reasoning when creating the character of Begbie from Irvine Welsh's *Trainspotting*.

One "upgrade" in Gemini 3 Pro is that my "Asshole" gem, which I instructed to be a complete asshole to me, no longer works. Flagged as abusive and profane.

As an alternative, Gemini suggests roleplay a specific character. So I said "embody Begbie from Trainspotting".

The funniest "thinking" step:

It’s astonishing how many researchers seem to believe that a cluster analysis is such a sensible analysis that it needn’t even be justified through a coherent research question. Just cluster analysis go brrrrr

I was opposed to the deal Brown struck with Trump over the summer, knowing full well it would probably cost me my job if the university didn't do it.

I am happy they rejected this compact, at the very least, though I would have liked a more forceful statement.

This is a good one. I've got some remedial reading to do.

New post on what happens when you can't press undo, from research and banking to cryptography and modern AI: kucharski.substack.com/p/not-going-...

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Truth Cartels? The DOJ’s Misguided Leap into Viewpoint Regulation In a surprising move, the U.S. Justice Department’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division has thrown its weight behind a lawsuit that could reshape how courts—and antitrust enforcers—think about competition in dig...

truthonthemarket.com/2025/08/12/t...

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