Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks for an excellent talk! Great work

Reposted by Sanmay Das

Cait 🐸 @caitesq.bsky.social · 14d

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

3 3 27

Reposted by Sanmay Das

Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 23d

This is good satire: alignmentalignment.ai

Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

We align the aligners

alignmentalignment.ai

3 24

Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · 26d

Lol, will take your word for it!

2

Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · 26d

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

1 2

Reposted by Sanmay Das

Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · Aug 12

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

460 4.7K 13K

Reposted by Sanmay Das

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Jul 30

"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."

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, ...

buff.ly

3 43

Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · Jul 16

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

1 1

Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · Jul 16

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 :)

Dasheri - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

1 1

Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · Jul 13

Hello!

1

Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · Jul 12

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

Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · Jul 10

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

Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · Jul 1

Look, I did my undergrad in Brazil, and there were very, very few essays, and take-home assessments in general, and lots of in-class exams. And do you know why? Because cheating was rampant! And instructors knew it!

That is: AI didn’t invent cheating, so we know how ppl adapt to rampant cheating.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Jun 30

I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?

Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · Jul 10

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…

Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · Jul 10

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…

1 1

Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · Jul 6

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…

Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · May 26

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

Bryan Wilder @brwilder.bsky.social · May 26

Should LLMs be used to review papers? AAAI is piloting LLM-generated reviews this year. I wrote a blog post arguing that using LLMs as reviewers can have bad downstream consequences for science by centralizing judgments about what constitutes good research.

bryanwilder.github.io/files/llmrev...

Equilibrium effects of LLM reviewing

bryanwilder.github.io

1 3

Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · May 21

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

1

Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · May 21

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

Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · May 21

@sanmayd.bsky.social at @aamasconf.bsky.social opening ceremonies asking the important questions.

Is it pronounced "Ay-MAS" or "Ah-MAS"?

I've always said Ay-MAS but I am already outvoted by both Michael Wellman and Eugene Vorobeychik! 😱😱😱

Discuss!

1 3

Reposted by Sanmay Das

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · May 7

Let’s Remember Why There’s a System of Federal Research Grants to Universities talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lets-...

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...

talkingpointsmemo.com

12 250 770

Reposted by Sanmay Das

WIRED @wired.com · Mar 27

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

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.

wrd.cm

9 210 740

Sanmay Das @sanmayd.bsky.social · Mar 26

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.”

1

Reposted by Sanmay Das

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Mar 25

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:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-133-...

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.

www.stevevladeck.com

96 1.1K 3.6K

Reposted by Sanmay Das

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · Mar 24

"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."

78 5.2K 21K

Reposted by Sanmay Das

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Mar 24

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.

330 11K 28K

Reposted by Sanmay Das

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Mar 18

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

410 1.2K 10K