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Why I Am Using AI To Decide Whether or Not I Should Move Out of Or Move Back to London, coming to a Sunday supplement near you, weekly, until everyone has written it
How These Kinds of Books Got This Sort of Title, and Why That Has This Vaguely-Defined and Ultimately Unproven Consequence
Book-that-could-have-been-a-New-Yorker-article-and-probably-was is quite the genre
If only there were a more concise way of phrasing “use work of novelists, artists and writers without permission”
'the pupil announced he was “working on something important about Swansea” before lying on the playground tarmac to “feel the rhythm of the town”.
...explained to a confused Year 3 class that the sea was “restless and unforgiving”.
#WorldBookDay
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There’s a great Polish idiom - “hit the table and the scissors will speak up”.
She will, Dan, she will
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“More like a lack of ability to manage at that level…and to manage in the Premier League now, I think you have to be a special sort of person to deal with that scrutiny as well.”
Knowing who you are and being content with it is one of the most admirable traits.
oh, was that load bearing?
Yes, ultimately I just concluded that he bought the line of bullshit he sold himself.
I honestly thought he’d be a better candidate if for no other reason than that his academic training would give him some sense of what not to do. The whole Guy-Pearce-in-Lawless garb seemed like an odd choice for what is a pretty rumpled party, aesthetically.
Policy aside, it was the “crack cocaine and heroin” bus jaunt that had me thinking “nah, you’re just too weird to win this”. He’ll get a run at a safer seat where this sort of stuff isn’t a dealbreaker, I’m sure. But he’s just too offputting in constituencies where that will make the difference.
See also…
The Reachification of a once good newspaper. Depressing.
I thought this didn’t sound right coming from her, and true enough, she’s been royally chucked under the bus by the headline writer here.
Cool. The policy that made my dad feel second-rate for the rest of his life, regardless of his achievements. In the name of the ordinary people.
This is a great book, and you should buy it.
That’s the review. Fuck nuance.
With that in hand, I could spend more time doing the things I want to do: reading and writing. Great fit for a single factor too, which doesn’t hurt.
pointed Claude Code at the data, the codebook and the prereg document. In 20 seconds I had a full script that did everything and needed minimal tweaks. Checked the data cleaning and it was flawless. The only significant change I needed to make manually was to use ordinal variables in the CFA.
Time to think and reflect is exactly what I want from it. Today I took delivery of some data for a preregistered study on a particular battery of questions I thought might form a good index. Instead of setting things up to clean the code, run lavaan, get the factor scores and do a few analyses, I
Made with an Atari, several lengths of string and a gramophone. The lo-fi vocal is perfect.
I remember this coming out of nowhere as Britpop was dying, and just blowing everything else out of the water. One of the best songs of the 90s.
At least Liz Truss's failure was "not anticipating that a tax-cutting budget might increase long-dated gilt yields and require pension funds employing liability-driven investment strategies to rapidly increase collateral", not "not anticipating that a war in the Middle East might make oil pricier".
‘Good news! You’re going to be Special Envoy for the *spins dial* Trebuchet of *throws dart at map* the Great Lakes’
Now now Alice, it would be AHAHAHAHAHA cruel to mock poor AHAHAHAHAHAHA Spurs fans after all they've been through in the last 30 seasons AHAHAHAHAHA
I think this is the most well-taken point here. But it is not an argument for AI so much as it is for being less tolerant of human-generated research malpractice and shoddy analysis.
"Good job they've got rid of the woman who killed her own d.....
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AI can clean my code. Fine. I'll still check it for mistakes, of course. But fine, this is the boring stuff. AI will not write my work. AI will not read my books. If I wanted a job where I didn't get paid to read and write, I'd be a fair bit better off and considerably less satisfied.
My two most satisfying experiences in academia:
- On a surmise, finding an apparently untouched Holocaust memoir in a library in Stockholm for my BA thesis;
- Lennon-and-McCartneying the penultimate chapter of a book with my co-author in about six hours in a Jagiellonian University seminar room.