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Yes, also true at my university (a large public R1). Our department did not decide whether or not to prioritize…
Reading Terence Tao’s blog and comments on it has slightly tempered my impression. A few of the many interesting points:…
Back when I applied ~15 years ago, the GRE was the most time-intensive part of the application (it’s also expensive),…
Both Pitt philosophy and Pitt HPS have informally discussed bringing back the GRE (from the 2027-8 admissions round, not this…
Grothendieck certainly changed the landscape but everything he did, whether it was representing functors, constructing new cohomology theories (and proving…
Yale isn’t running an admissions cycle this year but we’ll be thinking about how to do things next year, and…
I’m an AI researcher, and I keep bringing this up in the “what’s going on in AI” threads, but so…
DeNiro remarked (with remarkable New York restraint) that Trump is a "mutt," a "dog," who should be "punched in the face." Please watch around 21:00 this video about the effect of Trump's rhetoric on human beings (here children). "Mutts" deserve a lot better than Trump.
(Thanks to Daniel Buk for pointer to the video, which is worth watching in its entirety.)
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