Cicada Meth Orgy Fungus
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Student thesis advising
October 31, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Student thesis advising
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In my view, the primary determinant of whether something should be cited is whether it is relevant and true, not who authored it. Plus, how can authors know what the attributes of other authors are, anyway? The below policy does not, in my view, enhance the credibility of the scientific enterprise.
Citation diversity statements - Nature Reviews Psychology
Nature Reviews Psychology is encouraging authors to include a citation diversity statement to draw attention to citation imbalances and confirm that they made efforts to cite publications from a diver...
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October 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
In my view, the primary determinant of whether something should be cited is whether it is relevant and true, not who authored it. Plus, how can authors know what the attributes of other authors are, anyway? The below policy does not, in my view, enhance the credibility of the scientific enterprise.
When I see a news story about someone who embezzled a bunch of money, half my anger is that they blew it on douchey luxury brands rather than putting it in an index fund.
October 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
When I see a news story about someone who embezzled a bunch of money, half my anger is that they blew it on douchey luxury brands rather than putting it in an index fund.
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I thought, "Really? 58% seems like a high acceptance rate for POQ."
Then I realized Google's AI was substituting the acceptance rate for Public Library Quarterly (a Taylor & Francis journal) in response to my query about Public Opinion Quarterly (an Oxford journal).
Then I realized Google's AI was substituting the acceptance rate for Public Library Quarterly (a Taylor & Francis journal) in response to my query about Public Opinion Quarterly (an Oxford journal).
July 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I thought, "Really? 58% seems like a high acceptance rate for POQ."
Then I realized Google's AI was substituting the acceptance rate for Public Library Quarterly (a Taylor & Francis journal) in response to my query about Public Opinion Quarterly (an Oxford journal).
Then I realized Google's AI was substituting the acceptance rate for Public Library Quarterly (a Taylor & Francis journal) in response to my query about Public Opinion Quarterly (an Oxford journal).
"It would be nice to have high speed rail" does not logically imply "California is capable of building high speed rail within a reasonable multiple of its budget or that actually goes from LA to SF rather than between a few podunk towns in the San Joaquin Valley"
MAGA will cheer the Feds pulling funding from California’s High Speed Rail—because hating California is the whole point.
But this is the opposite of making America great. I’ve taken trains in China and Japan. They’re in the 21st century. We’re still tinkering with toy train sets.
But this is the opposite of making America great. I’ve taken trains in China and Japan. They’re in the 21st century. We’re still tinkering with toy train sets.
July 18, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"It would be nice to have high speed rail" does not logically imply "California is capable of building high speed rail within a reasonable multiple of its budget or that actually goes from LA to SF rather than between a few podunk towns in the San Joaquin Valley"
July 15, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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After all these reports of authors adding language instructions for LLM reviews in their papers I wanted to check this myself and I downloaded the .tex source from one of these papers.
Here is an example.
(I will not share the identity of the paper)
Here is an example.
(I will not share the identity of the paper)
July 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
After all these reports of authors adding language instructions for LLM reviews in their papers I wanted to check this myself and I downloaded the .tex source from one of these papers.
Here is an example.
(I will not share the identity of the paper)
Here is an example.
(I will not share the identity of the paper)
I keep seeing a Waymo with hideous corporate Memphis vinyl wrap and it has me all retvrn to the tradition of LIDAR artificial intelligence robot taxis having just plain white paint jobs
May 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I keep seeing a Waymo with hideous corporate Memphis vinyl wrap and it has me all retvrn to the tradition of LIDAR artificial intelligence robot taxis having just plain white paint jobs
"It’s probably not a complete coincidence that the people who think you get airplanes by doing a dance for the god who invented airplanes didn't have airplanes."
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REVIEW: Road Belong Cargo, by Peter Lawrence
Road Belong Cargo: A Study of the Cargo Movement in the Southern Madang District, New Guinea, Peter Lawrence (Manchester University Press, 1964).
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April 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"It’s probably not a complete coincidence that the people who think you get airplanes by doing a dance for the god who invented airplanes didn't have airplanes."
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March 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
We had a good thing, you stupid son of a bitch! We had NIH. We had indirects. We had everything we needed, and it all ran like clockwork. You could've shut your mouth, churned out regressions and made low six figures. It was perfect. But, no, you just had to say "Latinx."
March 15, 2025 at 3:05 AM
We had a good thing, you stupid son of a bitch! We had NIH. We had indirects. We had everything we needed, and it all ran like clockwork. You could've shut your mouth, churned out regressions and made low six figures. It was perfect. But, no, you just had to say "Latinx."
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I'm giving the 2025 Baron de Lancey Lecture at Cambridge: 'Repugnant transactions and taboo trades'. Come in person or by zoom! It's free but you need to register www.law.cam.ac.uk/press/events...
March 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I'm giving the 2025 Baron de Lancey Lecture at Cambridge: 'Repugnant transactions and taboo trades'. Come in person or by zoom! It's free but you need to register www.law.cam.ac.uk/press/events...
"Even if you think this was a move in the right moral direction, it was dangerous behavior. By presenting their expertise as part of a political fight, academics were not only squandering their credibility. They were asking to be treated like adversaries."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Academia is finally learning hard lessons
Universities took prestige, public support for granted. Trump is making them pay the price.
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February 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
"Even if you think this was a move in the right moral direction, it was dangerous behavior. By presenting their expertise as part of a political fight, academics were not only squandering their credibility. They were asking to be treated like adversaries."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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I feel like the main reason rationalist Helter Skelter hasn't gotten more press is it's simply confusing. Zizian ideology makes hiding out in a hole in the desert while the race war you started plays out sound like an episode of Law and Order.
February 16, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I feel like the main reason rationalist Helter Skelter hasn't gotten more press is it's simply confusing. Zizian ideology makes hiding out in a hole in the desert while the race war you started plays out sound like an episode of Law and Order.
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this is correct. and i kept saying this over and over over that this irrational reaction was going happen from about 2015 onward when normal liberal researchers turned a blind eye to radical activists becoming the face of their institutions and underming its credibility
sometimes lemmings drown
sometimes lemmings drown
Right now the US is cutting off its own nose to spite itself. Slashing NSF and NIH science funding is guaranteeing that future US bows down to future China.
February 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this is correct. and i kept saying this over and over over that this irrational reaction was going happen from about 2015 onward when normal liberal researchers turned a blind eye to radical activists becoming the face of their institutions and underming its credibility
sometimes lemmings drown
sometimes lemmings drown
You forget how quality of life-improving modern password managers are until you try to log in to Manuscript Central and their system of giving each journal a URL directory, not a URL hostname, sends you into password reset hell.
February 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
You forget how quality of life-improving modern password managers are until you try to log in to Manuscript Central and their system of giving each journal a URL directory, not a URL hostname, sends you into password reset hell.
January 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
It's like a lame duck president gave sovereign citizen advice for tax season
BREAKING: President Biden declares that the Equal Rights Amendment should be published
January 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
It's like a lame duck president gave sovereign citizen advice for tax season
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Of course. But not much that changes the basic (Hayek 1945) intuition that neither you, nor I nor the government of CA has any idea who has a spare bedroom that she might decide to rent if the price is right. But certainly many want to hear they must interfere with adjustment.
January 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Of course. But not much that changes the basic (Hayek 1945) intuition that neither you, nor I nor the government of CA has any idea who has a spare bedroom that she might decide to rent if the price is right. But certainly many want to hear they must interfere with adjustment.
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The elasticity is always higher than we think. People will come up with all sorts of solutions if the price is right--we do not know which ones. If you fix it, they will stay out. These first order adjustments are enormous by comparison with the kind of mechanisms in the paper.
January 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The elasticity is always higher than we think. People will come up with all sorts of solutions if the price is right--we do not know which ones. If you fix it, they will stay out. These first order adjustments are enormous by comparison with the kind of mechanisms in the paper.
"Often, advocates of strong-handed moderation don't seem to know what hit them; ironically, that bewilderment arises from their own entrapment in a filter bubble."
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Meta Is Right to Fire the Fact-Checkers
The fight against 'misinformation' is plagued by error and liberal bias. It's not an appropriate pursuit for a neutral platform.
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January 15, 2025 at 2:36 AM
"Often, advocates of strong-handed moderation don't seem to know what hit them; ironically, that bewilderment arises from their own entrapment in a filter bubble."
open.substack.com/pub/joshbarr...
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