@ZHallberg

He/Him/His: Asst Professor JMU: Zumba Instructor: ENFJ: Catholic: “Show me your faith without any works, and I by my works will show you my faith.”

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As anyone who's ever been to an academic lab's group meeting knows, generating hypotheses and performing experiments are famously the rate-determining steps in doing science. (sarcasm on full)
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Cancelling both Tiny Chef and Colbert... @paramountnet certainly has an agenda, and choosing your two award winning shows (one that happened to be incredibly inclusive, the other that spoke truth to power) just doesn't strike me as a financially-driven one...
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Zachary Hallberg retweeted
Pope Leo XIV
@Pontifex22 Jun 2025
Today more than ever, humanity cries out and calls for peace. This is a cry that requires responsibility and reason, and it must not be drowned out by the din of weapons or the rhetoric that incites conflict. Every member of the international community has a moral responsibility to stop the tragedy of war before it becomes an irreparable chasm. There are no “distant” conflicts when human dignity is at stake.
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For the computer scientists/mathematicians: one thing that I think is interesting in the Apple LLM paper is in Fig. 4 in the Blocks World section: Any hypotheses as to why even-numbered block problems appear to be slightly easier (for Claude) than odd-numbered block problems?
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This is purely a question about why there is a pattern, when algorithmically they shouldn't be different. Similar pattern for DeepSeek, but it's clearly a bit more complicated.
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Fun fact for everyone who thinks that "grocery" is an old word (for no particular reason). Both "grocery" and "Christ" are derived from the same word in Proto-Indo-European, "*gʰer," which means "to yearn for." To quote @JKisunzu, "I mean, He does give us our daily bread."
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FYI @duolingo I will be cancelling my subscription since you've decided to go AI-first. Your app is already bad (the daily refresh exercises for me have not changed in months despite the fact that I get them all perfect), you've removed actual notes about how grammar works, etc.
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It's bad enough that you're using contract workers and not salaried employees to do work that is difficult. But honestly, it's clear you're more interested in making humans addicted to keeping their streak than teaching actual language. That is all.
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“It's the deep breath before the plunge.”
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6. Honestly note to self that I should upload my CV to my lab website (if I'm lucky enough to get one this cycle) as a locked google doc so that students can use that for their formatting.
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That says nothing about your worth, and everything about the forces that make it hard for Profs to do the thing most of them really enjoy doing -- connecting with people about science.
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OK then... there is my pep talk to the zero people applying to grad school who will ever read this, and the one person with two thumbs who has three more faculty applications due today.
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2. Keeping an e-mail short while compiling ALL of this information is an art, not a science (I'm not going to say this is what ChatGPT is for, because the only thing less succinct in this world than I am is ChatGPT).
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NOT A JUDGEMENT OF PIs. They are doing the best they can with very limited resources. But with more competitive grants and lower budgets, this is only makes it harder to get in if you don't have someone helping you with the hidden curriculum from an early stage.
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