One of our greatest ever, signing off.
Kane Williamson has announced his retirement from international cricket effective immediately.
Head to https://t.co/Pm8RiU65zt to read more.
When I left academia in 2013, I thought "At least now I won't have to spend the rest of my life dragged into frustrating intractable arguments, writing text after text in response to discourse opponents, trying to convince others even though I will never convince everyone".
AI scientists produce results without reasoning scientifically
"Here, we evaluate LLM-based scientific agents across eight domains, spanning workflow execution to hypothesis-driven inquiry, through more than 25,000 agent runs"
"the base model is the primary determinant of both performance and behavior, accounting for 41.4% of explained variance versus 1.5% for the scaffold. Across all configurations, evidence is ignored in 68% of traces, refutation-driven belief revision occurs in 26%, and convergent multi-test evidence is rare."
if theoretical physicists had discovered deep learning instead, they would call it something like Effective Non-Equilibrium Multiscale Hierarchical Non-Linear Coarse-Graining Spin-Glass Dynamics Renormalization Group Theory Ansatz (ENEMHNLCGSGDRGTA)
Professors today: "Wahh, wahh, my students gave me bad course evaluations and it hurt my feelings 😞😞😞"
Professors in 14th century Paris: "I gave a bad lecture and the students threw stones at me"
Once in a while, I like to remind people that India has one of the world's lowest divorce rates - around 1% of marriages.
And it doesn’t mean what you think it does.
While he was writing ULYSSES, Joyce told his friend Frank Budgen that he’d spent eight hours working on a single sentence.
The sentence: “The heaventree of stars hung with humid, nightblue fruit.”
Neil, there is a logic flaw in your little aphorism that seems quite telling. Since you and I are part of the Universe, then we would also be indifferent and uncaring. Perhaps you forgot, Neil, that we are not superior to the Universe but merely a fraction of it. Nice day, indeed
America & Israel bombed an elementary school in Iran and killed 50 little girls.
Justification? To liberate the women of Iran.
Irony dies a thousand deaths.
This ‘no shaking hands’ is such a silly thing that India has started. It’s unbecoming of a nation like ours. Either play properly within the spirit of the game or don’t play at all.