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I’m not at a university, so I don’t have a ton to contribute, but I want to subscribe to see…
My former colleagues at another university in Middle East have also been moved to online teaching indefinitely, with the students…
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I would also recommend that potential grad students make inquiries into how far the compensation package actually goes towards cost…
It’s a mix. I’m still in the UAE with my family, and we feel safe. But some students and faculty…
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I could imagine LLMs having saved me a *ton* of time in graduate school–e.g., by having supplied reasonable answers to…
"I'm not Oxford-educated. We're not idiots. We know who our masters are. We just want them to do their job."
–a leader of the English Defense League (quoted in this article)
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