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@kjhealy@mastodon.social I almost didn't need to look to guess that the first reply would tell you the problem was "not with the make file but with your system"
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/1999-December/005581.html
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Andrew Goldstone
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Chiefly interested in applying the methods of a discipline I took one undergrad course in to topics entirely ignored in my graduate education.
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+1 to implication that literacy is the very heart of the LLMatter:
“The number that I am interested in is something like ‘How many words of normal business English per day can a manager read and check for accuracy and sense, without their mind wandering and without going mad?’”
obviously it's just engagement bait, but presenting a list of 100 novels as "the greatest literature" is indeed…symptomatic. Perhaps they would enjoy this slide I made for my intro students
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Just right on the money about management vs professionals
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@ncecire.bsky.social always in search of cruder substitutes for thought
Spare a thought for the everything-is-bayesian-updating people. Once champions of smug-probability-knowing, now out-smugged by purveyors of it-just-works! brute-force maximum likelihood estimation
president of my university really outdoing himself here. "The deficit is a social construct." https://www.dailytargum.com/article/targum-exclusive-president-tate-talks-deficit-path-forward-for-inclusion-rutgers-edge-20260504
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@joncgoodwin.bsky.social I should hope so. He has a degree in economics, you know
Sora, generate a black comedy combining nuclear annihilation and paranoia about impure substances entering the body; include a mad inventor running loose in the military-industrial complex
nationwide Canvas outage thanks to ransomware attack. It's ironic, you see, because Canvas is, in its essence, itself a ransomware attack on higher education
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@dynamic@social.coop yes. one might add, we also have a similar insight about the sheer crazy-making tedium of monitoring from the world of…grading student papers
Victory for CFU-UAW! NYU's non-tenure-track faculty voted 553-72 for the union. Those are the numbers we like to see. This is a nationally significant victory for the fastest-growing category of faculty in the US—and for all who care about the quality of higher education.
There is power in a union! #solidarity
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/new-york-universitys-non-tenure-faculty-elect-union-in-uaw-win
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@benmschmidt@sigmoid.social video arcade tokens: talk about dead metaphors! And I still have T tokens I hoarded for so long I missed the window to exchange them for Charlie-value. To me the typographic metaphor is easier (a word is like a letter, especially if you have idiograms on the brain). But your point about type coins is good. And reminiscent of Lisa Gittelman on the way models were actual three-dimension objects before they were abstractions.
jfc all I want to do is buy some socks
wile-e-coyote-looking-down moment on papers here for me. Yo, software engineers: congratulations on a technical achievement fully comparable to the invention of fracking
the backlist is not dead but sleepeth
Thanks to John Thompson's Book Wars, I even know what BookBub is. My 2013 monograph, misfiled under its series title, could be your "next read" for cheap!
Wary of Second-Home Tax, New York's Wealthy Turn to AI with Concerns About Having More Babies
RE: @associatedpress@flipboard.com
Pictured in this story: Old Queens, which top management moved out of to a more fortified location after a 2014 sit-in protesting Condi Rice as commencement speaker forced her to back out
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@benmschmidt@sigmoid.social good rabbit hole. Why do you think numismatic? Looking back cursorily at Peirce it's not obvious he's thinking coins, and the numismatic meanings, which I just learned 60 seconds ago, don't seem like a very clear metaphor for the semiotic ones.