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Jon Evans

@rezendi.com

engineer / novelist, occasional journalist / CTO / archivist / peripatetist; see https://rezendi.com/

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Jon Evans@rezendi.com · 2h ago

It's very 2026 that a Berkeley math professor warns that (some of) her students can't do middle school math and the resulting controversy is about ... whether she used AI to edit her blog post on the subject www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

UC Berkeley professor admits to using AI in op-ed calling out students’ lack of math proficiency

UC Berkeley math professor Zvezdelina Stankova published an opinion piece in the San Francisco Standard on Saturday reiterating her belief that the UC system should reinstate standardized testing in a...

dailycal.org

iucounu@iucounu.bsky.social · 24h ago

In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,

Kip Williams sort of@kipwilliams.bsky.social · 5d ago

I have to say that in 1978 I was in a winning trivia bowl team at a science fiction convention, and the chief reason for our success was that Teresa Nielsen Hayden knew somewhat more about Roger Zelazny books than Zelazny, who was on the other team, did.

Jon Evans@rezendi.com · 6d ago

So I was at a conference last week where a journalist talked about how Nashville did country & music song testing in the 90s; they'd autodial people in the Nashville area code, ask them to rate new music, then if yes play them 7-second clips, to be rated from 1 (worst) to 5 (best). The thing was...

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · last wk.

Then she busts out a beautiful, *perfect* little statistics aphorism: "Personalisation under a standard loss function is regression to the collective mean with extra steps." 32/

Jon Evans@rezendi.com · last wk.

Every so often I accidentally wander outside my militantly curated, highly positive Bsky experience to what appears to be The Discourse or at least An Discourse, and I ... recoil in horror.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last wk.

Bluesky has seen over 25% declines in daily and monthly users in the past year and has lost half its regular users from the 2024 election spike. This is why its new CEO has said he wants the app to expand beyond liberal politics. The current focus isn’t attracting new users.

C. Robert Cargill@crobertcargill.bsky.social · last wk.

People seem confused by Will Gluck's claim that audiences don't like sex in movies & I assure you, it's a real thing. It's late millennials & Gen Z, gens raised on puritan media who believe—and I'm not exaggerating—that the characters aren't consenting to be watched, even if the actors clearly are.

Elizabeth Sandifer@eruditorumpress.com · 2w ago

Optimism is not and has never been a component of punk aesthetics. This is ahistorical nonsense perpetuated by theater kids desperate to feel cool.

Doc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️@docvivileandra.bsky.social · 2w ago

Saw someone post an essay on reddit about how "solarpunk" is more punk than cyberpunk because it's daring to imagine a better future and like Okay, but try imagining a better future that's not "Thomas Kinkade painting with solar panels"

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2w ago

in honor of his death today - at 84, a good run - a John Crowley books appreciation thread. His greatest is LITTLE, BIG, which is an astonishing book - a North American fantasia in which, for most of it, the fantastic is *just outside* the direct experience of the narrative.