Foil would probably be sufficient. Like a faraday cage. The point is to block the phone from sending or receiving any kinds of signals.

C Thi Nguyen has a paper called "Transparency is Surveillance" which is about how forcing expert decisions to be made in an explainable, transparent way can have worse results.

Sometimes vibes are just expertise in a trenchcoat. Other times it can be unconscious bias, but there is no free lunch.

(Often, but of course not always). We have steered students away from other professors but it’s all word of mouth.

My supervisors are both high powered academics and excellent supervisors. They both take supervising their students very seriously and have a similar mentorship philosophy.

This sums up my week for sure

A more progressive Labour would be better for everyone not just in terms of policy outcomes but also electability

Totally, it's the opposite. The money was there so it would make more money. Now it's going to cover for $2.9 billion dollars in budget deficits that they created by giving tax breaks to landlords and tax cuts to the wealthy.

If you’re my friend and I’m inviting you over I probably enjoy spending time with you so I don’t mind if you come however early.

"Take no notice of my twice blinking"

Imagine one of the kindest humans who ever lived, who had love and compassion in her heart for all of God’s creations alike being asked for her last words and her choice was to point right at you like “I don’t like that guy”

All of the rhetoric about people pushing Māori down peoples throats in the media etc leads down this same road

They are, and they're also fun. I think that people don't assign much value to actually knowing which dialect they speak. Consequently most people speak a mish-mash (which is what standard kinda is) and otherwise don't think about it much.

Also it's not like I'm going to be able to cover every dialect, so I'm aware that only some people are going to be interested.

I'm mostly wondering if I'm somehow excluding people by assuming they wouldn't be interested.

I think this is common sense, and also what a fair number of people recommend. But I think that on some level the issue is availability of resources.

There just aren't a lot of dialect level language resources generally, so it makes sense to start with the stuff that's more voluminous.

But I'm going to be using these to learn myself and I don't speak a lot so it actually might be possible to make a resource that would work for most people.

Are you talking about OpenAI or ChatGPT 😂