The Vineyard Wind failure in Nantucket has significant implications for the offshore wind industry's future in the US. Today's article in the Bison Energy Report explores the situation and the path forward.
Big shoutout to @ACKCurrent for reporting on the ongoing situation
The solution is to embrace LLMs, encourage students to use them as "thinking buddies" or private tutors at home––which is how I use it, and how they'll be using it for the rest of their lives. For exams, pivot to ~100% in-class essays and oral exams. Worked like a charm in my University of Austin seminar.
I'm not sure this is a net-bad change over the status quo. And even if it is, it's inevitable anyway. Resisting it is like resisting the advent of calculators.
The alternative route is a stupid & unwinable arms race between cheaters and cheat-detection. Professors are destined to lose this arms race, b/c the incentives to successfully cheat will always be stronger than the incentive to catch cheaters.
Average MLB analytics department: “We’re gonna find players with good metrics who will add value to our team”
Yankees analytics department inventing a new baseball bat:
“No one voted for Elon Musk.” (They did however vote for Donald Trump who promised repeatedly to have Elon Musk root out wasteful spending in our government.)
People have expressed skepticism about how @DOGE can be effective without any formal authority. I think today’s events around the spending bill provide a road map for rapid DOGE progress.
There are three steps to successful DOGE execution:
Step 1 Transparency
@VivekGRamaswamy read the bill and summarized the contents on @X.
Step 2 The People Speak
The people including @elonmusk express their disgust with the bill calling out particularly egregious waste for color on the contents.
Step 3 The Congress Reacts
Faced with a spending bill that the people don’t like with the risk of being primaried for supporting a bill filled with pork and other waste, the bill fails to garner needed support to pass.
With its first test case, @DOGE shows how it is done.
As @DOGE identifies waste or bad regulations, it just needs to follow the three steps.
Power to the people.
Dearest mother —
The battleground has called for my glorious return. I’m thrilled to say, I shall heed that call.
I have reenlisted.
While my sidearm is permanently holstered — I shall help train other young men to be great soldiers. Please send care packages of squirrel oil and skunk cakes to our basecamp at Stanford. I love you.
— Andrew