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I sympathize with anyone who had to spend \textit{1-2 years} of their PhD struggling with Latex. There’s a learning curve,…
There are a lot of things that are built into time to graduate, such as course loads, working up to…
I think it’s a mistake to use LLMs during learning, because it takes a great deal of knowledge and understanding…
IHE has a piece on this very topic that came out today. Like many things being written about AI, it…
I am saddened to hear of Professor Reynolds’ passing. He was kind enough to sit on my masters thesis committee…
The following is the text of my Facebook post on Sunday, March 22. That FB post is set to Public,…
Seriously, could one be any clearer? What a scumbag (that’s a technical term for those who flirt with Nazism).
The much harder question here is how scary is this. Combined with the rise of the Hispanic Nazi scumbag Nick Fuentes, I’m beginning to think it is very scary.
My specialization is AI, and I’m very, *very* skeptical. My graduate studies were in math, an area where I would…