Jonathan Weisberg

I am once again asking why this guy is taken seriously by otherwise sharp and critical people on here

Is that number an average of many polls? Just one poll? If just one, how much does it tend to fluctuate in general? Sorry to be a stickler!

they're like oxygen that way

who hog alert

Another game that fails to be identical to BotW in every way smh

Consistent with my brand (being 8 years late to everything) I'm finally playing Hollow Knight and my take is: the art and vibes are superb but it's kinda boring to play

this is named chair erasure and i won't stand for it

Jesus built my hot rod, then St. Thomas Aquinas' skull rode shotgun in it

DIG THROUGH THE DITCHES AND BURN THROUGH THE WITCHES

I wrote about sourdough starters, my therapist's questionable taste in throw pillows, and the deficit of character in people who think listing two random things and one topical one makes their self-indulgent blog post sound intriguing

I agree argument isn't everything in philosophy; there is also tenure

Me adding \usepackage{MinionPro} to my coauthor's preamble:

specifically posting lecture notes and slides was a mistake

learning management software was a mistake

shouldn't it be called a colonoscopoo

Turns out AI is making people dumber just not in the way we expected

I never cared much for theatre until AI came along and changed all that by being unable to do theatre

There are serious problems with the customer model of education, but the fact that a *historian* got good value out of theirs is not, in my humble opinion, the best demonstration, or even illustration, of these issues

"The customer model of education is wrong because mine was a good purchase actually"

You got married! congrats

love those "can I have a higher grade because I want one" emails, lifeblood of the university

Thanks to this post, I now know from reading his Wikipedia page that Caviezel not only went to the same university as me, but the same community college too. Troubling

I hate having to take showers and baths. Just lay my skinsuit across a taut clothesline and beat the fuck out of it for 10 minutes and then bring it back to me

Speaking as someone whose life has happened largely at college: that is correct

"I'll never miss having a microwave. I doubt I'll even need that fourth stove element once in my life"

When we moved into our current house there was no microwave, and we never got one because we never found we missed having one. Anyway, now to take a large sip of coffee and get started on heating up these delicious Indian takeout leftovers I've been looking forward to enjoying for lunch..

After decades of failed attempts at reform, it's time to try Plan B: the elimination of metaphysics through logical analysis of language

Progress measures for grokking via mechanistic interpretability Neural networks often exhibit emergent behavior, where qualitatively new capabilities arise from scaling up the amount of parameters, training data, or training steps. One approach to understanding em...

Here's a paper that analyzes how a single-layer transformer learns to do modular arithmetic. The case I worked on was similar, but computing truth-tables instead arxiv.org/abs/2301.05217

Universities need to get back to doing what they do best: serving as large bureaucracies