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Ha, ok. If you make an automation for that, I’d be interested to hear it. And yes, I’ve been shocked and mourning as people in humanities and social sciences have cut their essays. They’re really how I learned to think.
It’s less of a thing in physics, though we have our own issues.
That makes sense. Though personally I’d find looking through the revision log for 30 essays to be a significant burden. Many colleagues here have gotten rid of outside essays entirely, and I did the same for my Energy Tech class class semester.
Has this method been working for you?
I’m interested in your LLM policy, especially in the use of a google doc for student essays. Do you actually have enough TA support to go through those carefully enough to flag suspicious pasting? I’ve heard people suggest this technique but haven’t talked to anyone who implemented it.
You didn't even know about this?
Fundraising email from Harvard GSAS. Dear Dr. Krich, Growing up, I never pictured myself as a researcher. It wasn’t until I had the chance to work in a lab as an undergraduate that something clicked for me. Hands-on work felt like solving small puzzles that add up to what we see every day. I chose Harvard for the chance to access incredible resources and to learn from scientists I admire—including Michael Baym, Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, whom I now work with. Our lab is the only one in the world that uses our technique. It was developed by a postdoctoral researcher who saw that bigger questions could be answered with this tool.
@baym.lol Love that they're using your lab to raise money. Though I wouldn't mind if they included a link to let the curious know what "technique" they're talking about!
I have to disagree quite strongly. And if you’d like a very deeply fleshed out version of the argument, I recommend Joe Romm’s The Hype About Hydrogen (2025 edition) or his appearance on the Volts podcast. www.volts.wtf/p/taming-the...
Hydrogen *is* energy storage. We have no proven natural sources, so green hydrogen proposals get it from renewable electricity. But that process is inefficient and so is burning it in a gas plant to make electricity. It’s better to use the electricity directly, or use a battery for energy storage.
OR
we get the hydrogen from electricity. But then we should just use that electricity instead of wastefully turning it into hydrogen and then again wastefully burning it in a power plant.
There's no reason why we should be making hydrogen (from any source) to burn in a gas plant.
Sure, if you had hydrogen it would be better to burn it than to burn gas, but the problem is that we don't have hydrogen.
We either get hydrogen from gas (or coal), which emits more CO2 (so it would be better just to burn the gas in the power plant)
Is that sarcasm? Burning hydrogen is about the worst thing you could do with it.
I believe this pic is from Toronto, a few years ago
Bringing my whole family
I’ve met that one! Had to call the front desk for instructions
Congratulations and richly deserved! It’s great to have you here.
“It gives me comfort to know there are these silent beings underneath my feet who are just biding their time and waiting for a geological event.” — Karen Lloyd, microbial geochemist www.quantamagazine.org/the-pursuit-...
Hello #ottawa and #gatineau area people, this is a longshot but our very distinct looking ebike was stolen from the secure parking facility at 160 Elgin today.
We have a reward for its safe return.
project529.com/garage/bikes...
I cheer every time I see someone down there, but it’s not really very regular. They did a foundation pour and then…nothing?
A new tent will cost US$300 (C$425). I’ve contributed C$50 towards their fundraiser; can we collect enough to help them have the money for a new tent and to start saving for a medical evacuation? tinyurl.com/FadiAfnan
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I’ve never used their spaces, but Staples at Bank and Frank(?) has coworking spaces and a coffee shop.
It’s a very good piece and we should take heed www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12
At minimum, the market so obviously needs to have William St and the other one (name?) closed to traffic. Deliveries can come early morning.
In tourist season, the sidewalks are crowded, and there's all that obvious space there that could be used.
Temporary closures of those streets have been lovely
Jerry uses congestion pricing as an excuse to stop seeing a woman who lives downtown. She stages a protest in the street in front of City Hall to get him back. George refuses to pay the $9 and drives along a labyrinthine path to avoid the cameras, using side streets and driving through parking garages. It costs him $47. Forced to use the subway, Elaine discovers J. Peterman living on the F train and attempts to bring him back topside. Kramer and Newman use a mail truck to evade the toll. Soon, people who don’t want to pay the toll ask them for rides, and they oblige… for a fee. Jerry points out they’ve just created Bus 2.0. Kramer: This isn’t about making money. This is the resistance, Jerry!”
Elaine convinces Peterman to come to the surface. They spot George coming out of a parking garage and ask him for a ride home. George agrees but refuses to pay the $9 — they’re going HIS way. Jerry is going to take the subway to a show, but Kramer convinces him that Bus 2.0 will be faster — “Now that the roads are clear, we can really open that baby up.” Jerry is running late so he agrees. They speed downtown to Jerry’s show downtown. Suddenly, Jerry’s ex-girlfriend leaps into the street holding a “down with congestion pricing!” sign. Kramer swerves to avoid her and plows right into George’s car, destroying both vehicles. Jerry’s girlfriend runs over to help. She tears up and thanks Jerry for coming to see her.
Seinfeld: The Congestion Pricing Episode
Students at Brown have used the Google Maps API to create a live tracker for traffic flows under congestion pricing in NYC. It includes a real-time diff-in-diff type comparison between NYC, Boston, and Chicago:
www.congestion-pricing-tracker.com
Phenomenal. “By insulating their films from failure, the streamers have destroyed the meaning of success.” Read the whole thing.
Hilarious to see Democrats live through Mitch McConnell in 2009-2010 (among many other examples) and then think their best strategy is trying to seem reasonable by deal-cutting with extremists and grifters like Musk, RFK, etc. Um.
It's remarkable how quiescent Democrats are - Trump is poised to inspire a major thermostatic backlash, midterms are now more favorable to D coalition, and Trump becoming a lame duck will soon inspire chaotic jockeying to replace him. The question is whether anyone is as savvy as McConnell in 2009.
Great thread on vehicle to grid from someone who really knows his stuff!
TL;DR it's a chicken-egg problem of regulators creating needless roadblocks and car companies and utilities ignoring it for that reason. But it WILL happen.
Thx @alphaconstant.bsky.social for driving this.