Michael Mann’s Ratattouille ?

Avoid Illinois Nazis (and Ghibellines)

I am APOPLEPTIC that administrators turn "students are all cheating" into "yep that's why we need to incorporate cheating into your teaching."

And I am DISTRAUGHT about what is being stolen from our students: the chance to struggle, to grow, to learn, to be human. That one will have global effects.

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

and yes, no contest, Emily Wilson's translation is the best I've ever read; the Odyssey is always beautiful but under her hands it felt like the Sistine Chapel except that you'd always seen it under centuries of dust and then, suddenly, it was just there - revealed -

not as it "is" but as it could be; Wilson doesn't pretend that her work is a simple unveiling; even with the Sistine Chapel you make decisions as you uncover

Someone (Kevin Gannon?) called it “punching down” and it’s totally become this clout-farming “play it for laughs (or for ‘kids&schools these days’ outrage) ” thing to exploit student mistakes for clicks. Peeps need to take on the systems around the kids, not the 15-yr-olds living their lives

If protein folding models, based on supervised learning w/carefully constructed datasets have proven useful to biologists and go under the same name ("AI") as the synthetic text extruding machines that are despoiling our info ecosystem, it is harder to critize the latter with one's full chest.

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But let's turn that around: Anyone who wants to call what they are doing "AI" should be accountable for making clear why their product (or research) isn't in fact slop. That's on them. The rest of us do not need to hold space for that.

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Wowwwwww

Ooooh sign me up.

There’s a carryout near us that makes a killer tikka masala pizza.

Holt was a MASSIVE textbook. Adventures was large but Holt was CHONK. Collections was more streamlined. MyPerspectives is a boondogging waste because of its clanky interfaces, weird autoscoring, and consumeable books of 600+ pages