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Emily Pitts Donahoe @empittsdonahoe.bsky.social · 5h

Only one week left to apply for the Center for Grading Reform's Alternative Grading Institute! This two-day, hands-on, virtual experience offers opportunities to connect grading with your values and design an alt grading system for one of your courses. www.centerforgradingreform.org/alternative-...

Alternative Grading Institute

www.centerforgradingreform.org

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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 7h

Ok it's Prime Day or whatever and Amazon is gross but also if we are ordering stuff there WHY NOT ADD ON A PREORDER OF MY JUSTICE-FOCUSED BOOK. It's broadly accessible and has a positive message and will make you feel better when it finally ships.

Shamelessly,
Love,
Chad

Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change

Amazon.com: Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change: 9780691276151: Topaz, Chad M.: Books

www.amazon.com

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Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · 15h

It took me a loooong time to internalize that when I draw a line on a piece of wood, that line has a nonzero thickness. And so does the saw blade!

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Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · 15h

I think there's some fun geometry behind designing tools like this

OneTIME Tool - Fibonacci Gauges - Retired June 10, 2024

    When something looks “just right” take a minute to measure its dimensions. You’ll most likely find that the larger dimension is a bit more than one and a half times the smaller. In f...

www.woodpeck.com

Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · 16h

The first time I was doing crown moulding I measured the first three corners of the room at something like 87, 88, and 91. So I confidently predicted the fourth corner to be 94.

Imagine my shock when it measured 89, and it dawned on me that the ceiling could not be a plane.

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Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · 16h

Nope, but I think about these kinds of things often like when I had to whip out an inverse tangent to set my mitre saw angle to cut the diagonal support piece on a gate.

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Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · 21h

Is this an attempt at banana bread?

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1d

NPR could easily fill a desperately needed public service for trustworthy legacy media, and likely easily meet its own small dollar fundraising goals after having its federal funding pulled, by simply describing things as they are. But instead they choose to do whatever this is.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 1d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · 1d

If your journal thinks a review from the bullshit machine should be placed alongside my expert feedback (*not* a mere "evaluation"!), then I will not be reviewing for your journal.

Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 2d

Oh FFS. Because what overburdened peer review systems really need is more noise between the reviewers & ACs. Yeah, that's the ticket.

aaai.org/aaai-launche...

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Screenshot of AAAI automated review announcement reading:

1. Supplementary First-Stage Reviews: LLM-generated reviews will be included as one component of the
initial review stage, providing an additional perspective alongside traditional human expert evaluations.
2. Discussion Summary Assistance: LLMs will assist the Senior Program Committee (SPC) members by
summarizing reviewer discussions, helping to highlight key points of consensus and disagreement among
human reviewers.

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Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · 2d

Didn't somebody just get like $17M a year?

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Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · 2d

Staying up late doomscrolling of course

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Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · 3d

Sorry, I thought it went without saying that one should buy a decoy bag to distract oneself from the other bag.

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Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · 3d

Buy them at the airport post-security. There is a Cafe du Monde over by the B gates

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Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · 3d

Just saw an ad for "Cobenfy" and really thought they were saying "Covfefe" until I saw it written in the corner.

Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · 4d

Is this why in job interviews they like to ask "Tell me about a time that..."?

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Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · 4d

Yards per attempt, or better yet yards per dropback so that it's a rough per-passing-play efficiency measure.

Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · 4d

I made a killer coffee chocolate porter 12 years ago or so. But I dont really like to drink 5 or 10 gallons of coffee beer (or pumpkin beer or generally any spice beer) so I haven't made it again since.

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Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · 4d

What did your roasting setup cost? Not that I need another hobby...

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Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · 5d

I am extra irritated as the development/validation of this instrument was NSF funded

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Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · 5d

Paper: "Our instrument is available by request to the corresponding author."

Me: Requests instrument from the corresponding author

🦗🦗🦗

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Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · 5d

Their source for that number was this BLS page, which if you follow the links to the different disciplines gives a number of employees as of 2024. So I might be able to aggregate that into some secondary evidence.

Postsecondary Teachers

Postsecondary teachers instruct students in a variety of academic subjects beyond the high school level.

www.bls.gov

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Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · 5d

Thanks Dave!

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Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · 5d

This seems like it ought not have happened

a baby yoda says i 'll see myself out while holding a gun

Alt: Grogu says i 'll see myself out

media.tenor.com

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