They let just anyone put stuff on the Internet. (Including me.)
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 he
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
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 extensive hallucinated sources. Based on a tip from a reader, we checked 18 of the 46 citations in the book.
Here's what I published on Monday, December 15, 2025: Questions Are Velcro The late Harvard business professor Clayton Christensen is famous for quite a few things, most notably, the Innovators Dilemma, and How Will You Measure Your Life?. I just want to add one more great idea to
Why all good learning starts with a question that matters.
Alex Tabarrok drew attention a couple of weeks ago to this study: disagreement with the consensus on controversial topics corresponds with worse understanding of non-controversial knowledge, like that we breathe oxygen from plants or that electrons are smaller than atoms. The authors then correlate respondents’ scores on the objective (uncontroversial)
Here's what I published from Sunday, December 7, 2025 to Saturday, December 13, 2025: AI is a magnifier, which is wonderful and terrible “Money doesn’t make you into a different person; it just makes you more of who you already are.” Not a semester goes by where