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Obviously what’s changed in the meantime is how much this has become a buyer’s market (and thus, an arms race…
I have done this (used the writing sample as the job talk material) as a junior candidate in the Uk,…
I did it both ways: job talk/job paper, job talk/not job paper. Got offers when the job talk was the…
Palazzo Massimo alle Terme. The garden frescoes from the villa belonging to Livia (wife of emperor Augustus) are a miracle,…
I am on the hiring side of things. I think the inverse argument holds as well–if the candidate has a…
Capuchin Crypt: A crypt decorated with the bones of 3,000+ Capuchin friars. So metal.
It seems to me one can say the readiness potential or this or that antecedent correlated brain signature is not…
Reader Blake Myers calls to my attention this story about the mathematical proofs released by OpenAI. Mr. Myers kindly compiled what seemed to him the most interesting or important results here. The total collection of papers is here. Readers knowledgeable about math are welcome to comment on these, how they will affect mathematics, etc.
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