Something I've noticed is that when someone says, "can I ask a stupid question?" during a teaching session, this is almost always followed by the most interesting discussion of the session

It's one of the things I look forward to most about teaching

Illusions of Alignment Between Large Language Models and Brains Emerge From Fragile Methods and Overlooked Confounds https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.09.642245v1

"Ich kann die eBooks nicht laden."
"Welche Titel haben Sie derzeit?"
"Einen Magister."
Das sollte eigentlich reichen.

A little bit of spring :)

Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual.
cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

*gets package errors because R version is too old*

*installs latest version of R*

*gets shinyapps errors because R version is too new*

🙃🙃🙃