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My former colleagues at another university in Middle East have also been moved to online teaching indefinitely, with the students…
If much of the interest of high-quality papers lies between the lines—in the metaphorical fire that a paper lights in…
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…
In the above comment, Michel wrote: “As an aside, every once in a while I check out how the chatbots…
I could imagine LLMs having saved me a *ton* of time in graduate school–e.g., by having supplied reasonable answers to…
The McMaster Department of Philosophy has now put together the following notice commemorating Barry: Barry Allen: A Philosophical Life Barry…
Reader Prabhu Venkataraman, a mathematician at Eureka College, shared this apt observation by his colleague Zeke Jarvis on the reconciliation process for the tax bill:
There are still some differences between the House and Senate tax bills that need to be reconciled. For instance, the House will let the rich feed on the blood of middle class families’ first-born children, but the Senate only allows them to grind up old people for meat. Obviously, there will be some hard conversations ahead.
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