Karl Lagerfelt.

@natnalyd To this degree, yes.

@ClementDelangue I was able to predict some of the consequences of the last wave of technology (the web) fairly well. I think the consequences of this one are intrinsically harder to predict.

“Gaza will also go down as a place name denoting one of history’s heaviest conventional bombing campaigns," said Robert Pape, a US military historian and author of Bombing to Win, a landmark survey of 20th century bombing campaigns. ft.com/content/7b407c…

I learned from someone with first person knowledge of the @Harvard president search that the committee would not consider a candidate who did not meet the DEI office’s criteria. The same was likely true for other elite universities doing searches at the same time, creating an… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

People started boiling water to drink tea and mortality fell as a result twitter.com/restatjournal/…

@dened21 @JMandel I'm speaking from experience. I've watched a very smart person "learn to code" using AI, and the results were not good. Huge programs full of mystery meat he didn't understand.

@JMandel Learn how to code without AI first. Then once you know what you're doing you can use AI to generate boilerplate for you.

@shadihamid Anyone accusing you of lying is either lying himself, or stupid. Or of course both.

There's one other piece of advice I can give about the AI boom specifically: learn to write software, and AI software in particular. Then you have a better chance of surfing on this wave rather than having it crash on your head.

In a situation like this, there are two general pieces of advice one can give: keep your options open, and pay close attention to what's happening. Then if you can't predict the changes AI will cause, you'll at least be able to react quickly to them.

One of the most interesting (and also frightening) things about AI is how difficult it is to predict what will happen. My kids ask me what's going to happen, and all I can say is that there will be huge changes, and I can't predict what they'll be.

The answer for private non-sectarian universities as well as public ones is to adopt and strictly abide by the Princeton Principles for a Campus Culture of Free Inquiry. Equal protection of everyone's intellectual freedom; no double standards. jmp.princeton.edu/princeton-prin….

How many people make it through each day of Replit's online 100 Days of Code tutorial.

@anammostarac I would guess they have a lot of meetings. That's the default activity of people within large organization who do little actual work.

@schun001 @elonmusk Putin can't withdraw because it would be admitting his decision to invade was a mistake. His successor won't need to protect Putin from looking bad; indeed, he may want to make him look bad.

Sergey Brin was a core contributor on the Gemini technical paper, coding “basically every day” twitter.com/_sholtodouglas…

About 77% of academics working on the Middle East say they're self-censoring on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the overwhelming majority of which say they do not feel free to criticize Israel. chronicle.com/article/schola…

@CleftHabitus That's because you don't know the real story.

I've heard a lot of crazy startup stories, but I don't think I've heard one more extreme than Parker Conrad's story of what happened to him at Zenefits. pod.link/1677066062/epi…

@elonmusk One way it may end is Putin dies and his successor (who may have hastened the process, in the Russian tradition) withdraws from Ukraine.

@daltonc Not quite. The mistimed idea might start to work if it survives long enough, whereas the bad idea never will.

At a time when some 16,000 Palestinians have been killed in the last 2 months, two-thirds women and children, & 1.8 million displaced from their homes, NO. I don't think it's a good idea to hand another $10 billion to Israel's right-wing extremist government no strings attached.

@mmay3r I found this with hang gliding.

This fundamentally changes how humans work with computers

the crisis of american healthcare, in two charts:

@anammostarac This is one of many reasons to study history.

@Trace_Cohen 4x growth followed by 3.5x the next year is certainly not unheard of.

Pandemic learning loss is a real issue. But if you look at these PISA graphs of US math scores, isn't the bigger question: Why have students' math scores *generally* declined for the last 20 years, at every student level?

For the first time, you can now read Poor Charlie's Almanack for free online. (Nice hardcovers are also available: amazon.com/Poor-Charlies-….) twitter.com/i/web/status/1…