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Adolescents benefit frm structured adversity--algebra or chores. They build self-esteem & work ethic. It’s why the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt argued for importance of children learning to do hard things, something that technology is making infinitely easier to avoid nymag.com/intelligence...
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
nymag.com
May 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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For the first time in over 20 years, Israel has deployed tanks in the West Bank, after expelling 40,000 Palestinians from refugee camps.

This is a prelude to full annexation, and makes a mockery of the ceasefire agreement that Israel continues to violate. [1/3]
February 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Goosebumps and tears of joy and disbelief.
Hoping and praying it can last and lead to complete freedom.
But to be completely honest, can't help but feel like there might be some tricks up their sleeve that they're waiting to play; may I be proven wrong🤲
January 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Maybe I’m an old crusty guy but I don’t really want an “AI revolution” in science or conservation. Like don’t we all realize we should slow down a bit? Science is not just about producing new knowledge as quickly and efficiently as possible. We are not just little knowledge producing drones.
December 21, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a #ScienceAdvances analysis finds.
Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty
Women faculty are more likely to leave their jobs than men, most often due to workplace climate, rather than work-life balance.
scim.ag
December 23, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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Goodhart’s law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhar...
Any metric can and will be gamed. So we really need to think through the implications here.

At first sight this is terrible: it kills replication & robustness in the cradle, pushing towards "new" stuff.

Chasing the unexpected got the Gino and Ariely cases.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#EconSky
Can novelty scores on papers shift the power dynamics in scientific publishing?
By providing measures of novelty, DeSci Publish hopes to shift the bargaining power between journals and authors.
www.nature.com
December 23, 2024 at 12:26 AM