Xiangyu XY

Assistant Professor of Sociology 🇸🇬 @NTUsg . Sociology of culture, computational social science, and study of tastes.

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Hi! I’m Xiangyu, a sociologist at NTU in Singapore who mostly does quantitative studies of cultural production and consumption. Recently, I’ve theorized and modeled complex modes of cultural taste: https://t.co/gM1bGX9chu

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The scholar-as-CEO/entrepreneur felt like "just" a metaphor when I was a naive graduate student, now I'm not so sure. https://t.co/ZpzVWLyuIK

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@DJBranham That’s my gramps

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@nateberkopec You need to break a few civilizations if you want to make an AGI

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@paularambles Get Dan Brown and Michael Crichton writing stat.

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@sidlowe He is an absolute mutant and we are all going to miss him so dearly. The greatest.

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@DRTnky My partner says they’re “training for IPPT” should I be worried??

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@UtdVault There really were no winners from this.

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Current sociology does feel like pangeia post-cenozoic era, no coming back.

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@davidhughes_phd How long ago was this? I’m actually curious how much students’ use of writing centers has dropped, because it must have. Similar to drops in office hours visits etc.

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Codex, take me back to the golden era of academia. Peter Bearman on his undergrad days.

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@Zac_labs What’s the leading dating app these days among Gen Z and alpha here. Is it still tinder and CMB, or are those the millennial apps now.

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@_Ventfull_ Real Madrid are hoarding all of them

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@joefrancis505 I preferred when we just called it “replication crisis.”

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@lianda_edu RIP Yiran, that was so awful.

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@MiriamJane5 Editors everywhere are massively stepping up their desk-reject game to deal with the AI-augmented "productivity," I guess that's the flip side that we suffer as writers submitting.

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@Linahuaa Sister, you have your IQ in your bio. Glass houses etc.

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@cwjones89 Status distinction games move round and round

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@yishan This feels like an aspect of LLM metaphysics and philosophy of mind that OpenAI might explicitly be building into the model.

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@HistorianZhang @baryontensor Yep, they’re good for different types of “reading.” Footnotes for linear narrative reading; endnotes for high-level scanning and reviews.