I don’t think I’ve posted about this yet, but I’ve been using the LLMs to make a math/technical presentation tool that does latex and “live demos” (usually written by an LLM). Feel free to check it out eigendeck.dev … it should work on mac, windows, and linux, but I work mostly on mac.

Men vem ska trösta knyttet och förklara att en sång // är bättre än en kappsäck ifall vägen är för lång?

The Moomins are not as cute as you think

The Moomin stories themselves are much more complex and interesting than you'd know from the tea towels and collectible mugs.

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JHU Data Science and AI Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship program is searching for postdocs (due Dec 11th). If you're interested in working with me on computational social science, NLP, and AI for human behavior & society, apply here: apply.interfolio.com/196237

Write-up describing results from a randomized experiment at Stanford Stats on adding Oxbridge-style tutorials to an undergraduate probability class. Large positive effect size on exam grades. Short paper, worth reading if thinking about teaching in the age of AI.

What's Old Is New: Improved Learning from Small-Group Tutorials

The ubiquity of Large Language Models poses a challenge to student learning in homework-based college courses, where access to easy homework answers devalues the intended productive struggle. To addre...

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Side benefit of this idea: I can direct prospectives to less established faculty they might not be aware of

Mor Naaman@informor.bsky.social · 3w ago

Show proof that you aren't just spamming. Crazy idea: put on your webpage a list of professors that you contact; no more than 10-15 names. Refer to it in your email. Those names better be in an area close to mine. This is an assessment signal of interest/commitment in me AND the research area.

📣 Postdocs at Yale FDS! 📣 Tremendous freedom for work on the foundations of data science with faculty across campus, multi-year, great salary. Deadline 11/6. Spread the word! Application: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32396 More about Yale FDS: fds.yale.edu

X's Community Notes are increasingly submitted by AI writers. In a new preprint, X open-sourced its Community Writer tool. A dive into the data underpinning it revealed that in Sept, six AI writers run by X's team wrote 90%+ of all AI-written notes, and 55% of notes that showed up on posts.

Virginia Vassilevska Williams wrote some thoughts about the 3-SUM breakthrough Josh Alman and her wrote an exposition of, how it happened, what it means, and some context about 'what could have been' in a world with more time and fewer models. Read it here: people.csail.mit.edu/virgi/though...

Yale Statistics & Data Science is running an open-rank faculty search (Asst/Assoc/Full), focused on "Applied Data Science". I moved to Yale 2y ago and am very happy here! Feel free to reach out to me if you have questions. Review begins 11/1. statistics.yale.edu/assistantass...

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, Applied Data Science

The Department of Statistics and Data Science at Yale is seeking applicants for an assistant/associate/full professor, Applied Data Science.

statistics.yale.edu

Trump renaming things seems profoundly stupid, and it is. It's also a classic strongman move. Turkmenistan's dictator renamed "April" and "bread" after his mother. Mussolini renamed "bar" and "sandwich" to made-up words so people could tell which bars and paninis were fascist. Much like SpaceXSI.

I've heard a lot of sad voices in our community who are "depressed" and "completely crushed" by the new wave of AI results. I'm actually very optimistic. I don't have particularly good rationales, but emotionally speaking, let me try to infect you with a bit of my optimism if you need it. 1/n

The new call for Motwani postdocs application is now open! tinyurl.com/4r7etua2 BTW- Not quite ready for a postdoc? We updated the TCS Masters programs spreadsheet: tinyurl.com/493rxwkx Any career stage and in the (SF) Bay Area? Save the date for TOCA-SV on 11/6/2026!

In 2023, Change.org integrated an AI-assisted writing tool into their platform. We found that access to the tool changed platform trends in petition text, but that outcomes (signatures and comments) did not improve... Excited that this paper is out, check it out! 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Introducing AI to an online petition platform changed outputs but not outcomes - Nature Human Behaviour

Corpus et al. examine how the introduction of an AI writing tool impacted Change.org petitions, finding that it increased petition homogeneity but did not improve petition outcomes.

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Isabel Silva Corpus@isabelcorpus.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Excited to share a new working paper! What happened when Change.org integrated an AI writing tool into their platform? We provide causal evidence that petition text changed significantly while outcomes did not improve. 1/ arxiv.org/abs/2511.13949

What is your estimand?

CNBC Make It@cnbcmakeit.cnbc.com · 5mo ago

Add these 4 words to your vocabulary right now, experts say: They can make you more influential at work

Interested in the social impact of AI? Consider applying for this new post-doc at Duke's Society-Centered AI Initiative: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32805

Need new examples for teaching confounding and reverse causality to my undergrads. Send any published statistical crimes my way please.

My Yale colleague Dan Spielman has started a substack, which I thought I'd signal boost since Dan is an outstanding thinker and communicator (and person!) but isn't on social media much. Here's his first substantive post from a month ago: mathadjacent.com/p/llms-testi...

LLMs, Testing, Grade inflation, and Accommodations

Like every professor, I’ve been worrying about how AI systems will force us to change our teaching practices.

mathadjacent.com

Nikole Hannah-Jones w/ a sobering follow-up on her decision yrs ago to enroll her daughter in a poor, majority-Black public school rather than a wealthier, whiter private school. You leave heartbroken for the kids being failed by this grossly unequal system. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...

In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)

A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.

nytimes.com

The Call for Papers for #STOC2027 is up! Importantly, the PC "will place substantial weight on the quality of exposition, and clarity of technical arguments and proofs" Also: - Public posting requirement - Required video submission and more. Deadline: ⏰ Nov 2, AoE acm-stoc.org/stoc2027/sto...

Setting the doomer bits aside, to me the core challenge here sounds a lot like experimenter demand effects: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_...

Chris Said@csaid.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A personal statement from an OpenAI researcher who was never a doomer but has become much more concerned recently. docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Nihar Shah did a heroic experiment for TMLR: he spent 20-25 hours over two weeks interviewing authors of seemingly low-quality submissions about their own papers. He confirmed what we all suspected: people submitting these papers have *no idea* what is going on in them.

Transactions on Machine Learning Research@tmlrorg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

TMLR has faced a deluge of submissions, necessitating stricter desk rejection policies due to limited reviewer capacity Co-EiC Nihar Shah reached out to authors of 10 papers slated for desk reject. Could they answer questions about their *own* submission? medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ask...

We're hiring an assistant professor in AI/data science and public policy at Columbia University! For best results apply by Sept 30 apply.interfolio.com/190715

An interesting thing is happening to me at the moment. I have a standing bug bounty policy for my first authored scientific work. That means, I've committed to pay people who report bugs in my code, up to 750€ for severe errors. Since GPT-6 Astra came out, I'm now getting several bug reports daily.

Well, this Navier-Stokes affair did blow up in finite time

Every time.

Data Colada@datacolada.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Colada[139] Artificial Deadlines Part 2 Evidence of fraud in the 25 year old gradesheet behind the key finding in an influential paper on deadlines and procrastination. datacolada.org/139

This is an absolutely catastrophic data breach of an identity verification vendor 150+ million drivers license scans that includes photos, address, license numbers etc. It includes Pete Hegseth, security researchers, and even the deputy director of the FBI. krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-...

data colada but for earnings calls

Submissions for CODE@MIT are open until Sept 13th. As @dholtz.bsky.social noted www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... we're particularly interested in these topics this year:

CODE@MIT@codemit.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📢 Call for abstracts for the Conference on Digital Experimentation (CODE@MIT), which takes place Nov 13-14. 📨 Submit your best work by *Sept 13th*! ide.mit.edu/events/2026-...

News so big that Donald Trump had to upstage it by renaming Lake Ontario: ethanzuckerman.com/2026/08/27/m... (TL;DR) I will be starting a new lab at McGill University in Montreal next summer as Goldenberg Chair in the Digital Public Sphere.)

My personal contribution to the US/Canada trade war - Ethan Zuckerman

I've accepted a position at McGill University and will be moving my lab there from UMass in summer 2027... with excitement and some sadness.

ethanzuckerman.com

📰 Our piece with @ziv-e.bsky.social and @mbernst.bsky.social in The Conversation today. Feed algorithms optimize for engagement behavior because it is easy to measure. The result is that the values amplified in people's feeds are misaligned with what they value. theconversation.com/why-social-m...

Why social media algorithms send you posts you don’t like

Algorithms on X tend to bring you posts that contradict your values, and it happens more to Democrats than Republicans.

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