They let just anyone put stuff on the Internet. (Including me.)
Here's what I published from Sunday, December 21, 2025 to Saturday, December 27, 2025: My Ten Favorite Photos of the Year This is the year I made landscape photography an official hobby rather than just a thing I enjoyed doing with my iPhone. All of these photos were
Here's what I published on Saturday, December 27, 2025: My Ten Favorite Photos of the Year This is the year I made landscape photography an official hobby rather than just a thing I enjoyed doing with my iPhone. All of these photos were shot on a Fujifilm X-
This is the year I made landscape photography an official hobby rather than just a thing I enjoyed doing with my iPhone. All of these photos were shot on a Fujifilm X-T5. These aren't in any particular order. It was hard enough just choosing ten! 1. Bryce
Here's what I published from Sunday, December 14, 2025 to Saturday, December 20, 2025: Adversarial vs. Cooperative Teaching Whatever your opinion of AI, I found this idea of teaching being either adversarial or cooperative to be really interesting. I definitely find myself using both perspectives depending on the
Here's what I published on Thursday, December 18, 2025: Adversarial vs. Cooperative Teaching Whatever your opinion of AI, I found this idea of teaching being either adversarial or cooperative to be really interesting. I definitely find myself using both perspectives depending on the situation (and the student). I’
Whatever your opinion of AI, I found this idea of teaching being either adversarial or cooperative to be really interesting. I definitely find myself using both perspectives depending on the situation (and the student). I’d rather be cooperative the vast majority of the time. Your prediction about the effect
Companies laying off workers for AI agents are either misjudging how agents will work or they're just low-ambition companies.
Here's what I published on Wednesday, December 17, 2025: 2025’s biggest impacts—for better or for worse This is absolutely fascinating and I’ve already spent too much time on this page when I should be finishing grades. All the biggest scientific or technological changes of 2025,
This is absolutely fascinating and I’ve already spent too much time on this page when I should be finishing grades. All the biggest scientific or technological changes of 2025, ranked. How did the world change this year? Which results are speculative? Which are biggest, if true? We collected and
Apropos to my earlier post about the Springer textbook with fake citations, academic journals are seeing a rash of the same thing. What Heiss came to realize in the course of vetting these papers was that AI-generated citations have now infested the world of professional scholarship, too. Each time
A baby boy born over the weekend holds the new record for the “oldest baby.” Thaddeus Daniel Pierce, who arrived on July 26, developed from an embryo that had been in storage for 30 and a half years. This happened over the summer, but I hadn’t seen the news
Here's what I published on Tuesday, December 16, 2025: Machine learning textbook from major publisher has hallucinated sources I don’t think I can adequately stress how bad this is for a publisher as big as Springer to screw up this badly. A new textbook of theirs had