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@neogliberal.bsky.social

30% academic discourse; 15% games; 3% misc; 52% skeets I wrote but deleted immediately.

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Not that other guy, that's for sure@neogliberal.bsky.social · 2d ago

Just did a thing for the first time. I accepted a review with the expectation of being able to review it. I sat down, pen-in-hand, so to speak. Turns out well beyond my expertise. I thought it was one thing, but it was another. Has anyone else had to pull out of a review for a similar reason?

Not that other guy, that's for sure@neogliberal.bsky.social · 2d ago

My feed informed me Will stancil is still at it. Imagine a person who wishes to be taken seriously in serious ways was like "teaching is way easier than teacher make out" or "accountants are clowns, really". And yet "psychologist and philosophers are too closer minded to see the obvious" is fine.

Seth Chagi (World of Paleoanthropology🏺)@sethchagi.bsky.social · 3d ago

We called it the Stone Age because rocks don't rot. Ethnographic toolkits are 90% wood and fiber. Rare Pleistocene finds prove Neanderthals were master carpenters—understanding timber mechanics, hafting, and fire-hardening. Read the essay: deephistory.substack.com/p/the-wood-a...

The Wood Age: How Neanderthal Carpentry Smashed Prehistory’s Greatest Illusion

For two centuries, we called it the “Stone Age” because rocks don’t rot. A stunning trove of 60,000-year-old wooden tools from a Spanish cliff proves Neanderthals weren’t knuckle-dragging cave brutes—

deephistory.substack.com

Not that other guy, that's for sure@neogliberal.bsky.social · 3d ago

This is my honest review of Digger. Inglorious Basterds is to Django Unchained as Birdman is to Digger.

Not that other guy, that's for sure@neogliberal.bsky.social · 3d ago

Y'all, I saw Digger. It's fine. It's actually pretty great in a lot of ways, but somehow it's less than the sum of it's parts. But it's far from boring, and has some standout moments. I'm not hearing anywhere enough love for Ganesh. I nearly stood up and punched the air when he got his monologue.

Not that other guy, that's for sure@neogliberal.bsky.social · 3d ago

Y'all, I saw Digger. It's fine. It's actually pretty great in a lot of ways, but somehow it's less than the sum of it's parts. But it's far from boring, and has some standout moments. I'm not hearing anywhere enough love for Ganesh. I nearly stood up and punched the air when he got his monologue.

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Not that other guy, that's for sure@neogliberal.bsky.social · 4d ago

There's drama about this finding. I'm sharing here because a lot of my non-academic follows here are posting stuff like "Yup, might as well huff microplastics, death to LLMs". I'd put the genie back in the bottle if I could, but the criticism must be justified. This study isn't all that.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 4d ago

In our course and book _Calling Bullshit_, we posit that If something seems too good, or too bad, to be true, it probably is. Now as a college professor I'm pretty confident that overreliance can AI can harm our thinking ability, but just ten minutes of use? Let's dig into this this study a bit.

Not that other guy, that's for sure@neogliberal.bsky.social · 6d ago

Example 12864: You'll never convince me businesses have any real idea what they're doing with data. I teach a class on this every year, and every year I try to update the slides , but I fail to find anything credible on success stories of big data.

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 6d ago

Today in ai failscape, Amazon released a new “about you” feature by letting loose their ai on your spending record (there was no opt in/out). When I looked at mine it said that due to my spending habits I have a dog… so i thought, ok it’s confused my rabbit purchases with dog purchases?

Not that other guy, that's for sure@neogliberal.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is bad and all that ... ...but I can't think of a less reliable dataset than undergraduate essays. To say nothing of the quality of the prose, nor the accuracy of the content... it's a compromised dataset. How much of it is *already* LLM? It's gotta be at least 5%, and probably much higher.

Samuel Moore@samuelmoore.org · 2w ago

"The University of Cambridge refused to sign plagiarism detection software Turnitin’s new licence agreement, which could have allowed students’ work to be used to train artificial intelligence (AI) models."

worm@rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range