Like many who spend their lives in the ivory tower, I enjoy academic satires. That includes Richard Russo’s novel Straight Man, the movie Wonder Boys, the TV show The Chair, and many books by David Lodge.
The most recent is Julie Schumacher’s Dear Committee Members, written as a series of recommendation letters from an increasingly cantankerous creative writing professor. Highly recommended for those who like this genre. For me, it was a great way to end the summer, as I prepare for my first class on Tuesday.
Tuesday assorted links
1. AI as palm reader? 2. “why we need to train models to learn their own capabilities, and how this...
Saturday assorted links
1. Hedging the singularity? 2. Claude doing stand-up comedy, the video is AI too. 3. Thirty more lines from Empedocles...
The exposed counties (from my email)
Professor Cowen, Built a county-level AI displacement model across all 3,204 US counties. Top 5 most exposed counties are all...
That was then, this is now
At the advent of a more aggressive Persian Gulf policy on the part of Iran during the interwar years, the...
