They let just anyone put stuff on the Internet. (Including me.)
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
Here's what I published on Wednesday, December 10, 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 I miss the chance to
The ability to do more doesn’t equate with wise judgment or good character. What we bring to AI matters at least as much as what AI can actually do.
Here's what I published from Sunday, November 30, 2025 to Saturday, December 6, 2025: After historic declines, global poverty may increase after 2030 The global reductions in poverty over the last 50 years have been unprecedented, bordering on miraculous. But the rapid and easy gains in wellbeing might
Here's what I published on Saturday, December 6, 2025: After historic declines, global poverty may increase after 2030 The global reductions in poverty over the last 50 years have been unprecedented, bordering on miraculous. But the rapid and easy gains in wellbeing might be behind us. Based on
The global reductions in poverty over the last 50 years have been unprecedented, bordering on miraculous. But the rapid and easy gains in wellbeing might be behind us. Based on current trends, progress against extreme poverty will come to a halt. As we’ll see, the number of people in
In times of injustice, anger, or outrage, patience can both inform and fortify us. Booker states, “Practicing patience doesn’t mean that you push your anger aside, that you don’t acknowledge it…Bringing patience in to support your anger can feel like a sacred pause, a deep listening as