Megan Lavengood
@meganlavengood.com
Music theory prof, timbre, the Yamaha DX7, 80s, pop music, teaching, cats, food, crosswords, complaining about NYT Spelling Bee, knitting. DC area. she/her
in case anyone was wondering why I am This Way, I just received this email
look, I'm willing to work for my salary, but I just ask that I my job just be to do whatever I want all the time, is that so much to ask
If you’re gonna work on your slides during someone else’s talk, at least sit in the back of the room???
Lmao Apple Music, censoring out Pussycat makes it look so much more vulgar
Hey sorry I just found out about the UFC fight at the White House and I just want to make sure I'm correct in saying this is totally bizarre? What is the precedent? What other similar things have been done in the past? Am I missing something? I feel gaslit
@musicologyduck.bsky.social best lunch spots near LOC? I'm working there today
happily watching TV and drinking some wine and chillin and I open my phone for one last look before bed to make sure nothing major is happening and it's 20 NEW EMAILS FROM STUDENTS AND THE SCHOOL
who else is showing up to the Timbre conference early so they can see Angine de Poitrine at the Montreal Jazz Festival 🙋♀️
People are posting this with other trios but there's no way any of them fit better than this
DC, Maryland, Virginia
I just had to use Honorlock for an exam as a student and this shit is so weird hahahah. Took me like 25 minutes to set up too. Would not recommend
Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time. This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.
sucks that it’s come to this, but if congressional Republicans wanted to put up a national gerrymandering ban or multi member districts etc, it would pass *for sure*. until then fight fire with fire
do you want "Catholicism but american" we invented that, it's called Episcopalianism and it's even more woke. all the priests are lesbians. good luck
in academic publishing, do we still care about whether people are using "beg the question" in the "correct" way
I'm seeing this a lot now, and often with people I would absolutely assume ought to know better.
We're shockingly prone to "cognitive surrender."
If you teach please show your students this. If you're a student, please read this. The answers LLMs generate are not all alike. They are more likely to hallucinate on topics we don't already know a lot about. Even answers with "sources" shouldn't be trusted. leahbroad.substack.com/p/chatgpts-a...
Why we should care about ChatGPT's accuracy gap
I tested ChatGPT on my area of expertise. The results are a problem for future knowledge
leahbroad.substack.com
wow, didn't think "i shouldn't have such severe imposter syndrome because at least i read the scholarship i cite in my work" would ever be an entry in my affirmations journal but here we are
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it