Nic Weber

too many polecats not enough deacons

"do you have 5 minutes to chat?"

HoopFlow NBA data analytics platform focused on Game Flow and advanced performance metrics.

Extremely good visualization of NBA games. I especially like being able to see the +/- of different lineups over the course of a game (and not just because it supports my thesis that Devin Vassell is the engine that makes SA run) hoopflow.limboy.me?tab=games&ga...

Good idea _ Out of curiosity what set is this from?

NLP+CSS Workshops https://www.pexels.com/photo/group-hand-fist-bump-1068523/

✨The NLP+CSS workshop is returning to ACL 2026!✨

And this year, we have a new shared task with prizes!

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Deadlines: March 5 (direct), March 24 (pre-reviewed ARR)

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Extremely impressive answer by Opus - the strategy all Weber games is actually obfuscation

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Fwiw - Interfolio allows you to assemble the dossier and download dossiers in batches.

Do you have a public syllabus? This sounds fantastic!

"You like School House Rock, right? Ok, this is Math Rock. Basically the same thing."

This is was essentially Tom Griffiths' keynote this morning at COLM

This is good. Like really good.

This is wild coincidence... I was just pushing Claude on category theory and it went very sideways theorizing about morphology.

Also v good bsky.app/profile/rach...

This is v good

...declining state support, threata and real losses in grant funded research, demographic shifts, demonization of liberal classrooms, etc ... AI is an accelerant for a sector already on fire, but it's insane to say this is a "students future" without any consideration for our present.

If all of this forced higher ed to reconsider its methods of content delivery and retrain it's workforce - I think a lot of us (students, professors, support staff) would be thrilled - BUT ITS NOT. Because... Well everything. Most employees in HE are living under a shadow of terror introduced by...

Another broadly discussed tactic is "oral exams"...ok, but with absolutely no consideration for what this testing method measures, and no support for student preparation for a new paradigm of evaluation? It also does not scale without some serious reorientation of in-person instruction norma

Most instructors are trying the same tactics to theaet overreliance on AI, but it's all so meek and most of it is failing. "Ask gpt and then critique it's response" is the equivalent of a programming instructor saying "in this class we only read code you can find on GitHub" - it has v limited value

Now replace Tesla with OpenAI; and driving with literally any subject in higher education. This is college instruction in 2025

Next year, all 50 state DMVs report widespread failure for road tests. The rate of licensed drivers in the US population decreases steadily and then falls off a cliff. Politicians and print media blame driving instructors - why can't they just update their curriculum to meet student needs?

'Examining the effects of birth order on personality' in PNAS -> across multiple controls in three countries (UK, Germany, USA) "...we conclude that birth order does not have a lasting effect on broad personality traits outside of the intellectual domain." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Prompt Stability Scoring for Text Annotation with Large Language Models Researchers are increasingly using language models (LMs) for text annotation. These approaches rely only on a prompt telling the model to return a given output according to a set of instructions. The ...

I really like @cbarrie.bsky.social's prompt stability work for text annotation arxiv.org/abs/2407.02039

Simulacra is so back!

This is a very cool paper - curious about doing research with a HS student - is this part of a program or one off scenario?

This tracks with political science theory! Eitan Hersh argues that political hobbyism depends in part on the perceived threat of the party in power www.eitanhersh.com/uploads/7/9/...