#Academic

Jeff Holliday

jeffyholliday

New twitter handle @jeffyholliday! I've been meaning to change for awhile now, mainly because most of my account names for stuff are slight variations of each other and it bothers

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MorlockP

1/Still angry at that person who was upset that covid tests return positive on applesauce.This is a true smoothbrain response, from someone who has never once investigated how measurement works.It's

Rohan Padhye

moarbugs

Folks on the academic job market: While there are many great guides about interviewing, probably not a lot cover "virtual" remote interviews, which you will soon be doing. Here are

Nate Fischer

NateAFischer

Prediction: Demands will escalate that amateurs abstain from independent analysis and defer to credentialed experts.The better the analysis, the more strident the denunciations will be.The reason is that credentials are

Matt Giani

Matt_Giani

In discussions about whether percent plans (e.g. Texas's top 10% law) promote equity in college admissions, it is rarely discussed that roughly half of high schools send ZERO students to

Deeply Credentialed Yuga

MelancholyYuga

One thing I've never really gotten over about industry is just how much of the economy is about unfucking other parts of the economy.Not in any grand political sense. I

Sacha Coward

sacha_coward

You didn't ask, but here are some of my thoughts on why bisexual historical figures get described as gay, thus erasing their bisexual identity. I write this as a gay

Holger Hestermeyer

hhesterm

This is a level-playing field thread. You might not realise it at first. So bear with me. It starts of with the notion of “efficient breach”. It’s a notion from

Denny Britz

dennybritz

Some interesting discussion here on the research of large labs overshadowing the less popular ones despite not being that different: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/hbzd5o/d_on_the_public_advertising_of_neurips/What do you

Onsi A. Kamel

onsikamel

"Academic writing does not exist in order to communicate with a reader. In academia, or at least the part of it that I inhabit, we write, most of the time,

Joshua Badge

joshuabadge

The SMH may or may not back down over yesterday’s rancid anti-trans piece but the broader issue is that the paper has an anti-trans and anti-queer track record, esp in

Michael Butterworth

BurntO_Butterwo

While I’ve been reading and watching news coverage over the past few days with great interest, I’ve avoided commenting on anything in real time. Reflecting on the last 48 hours,

Bill Ferriter

plugusin

As @VP prepares to talk about 'School Choice' today at Thales Academy here in North Carolina, I figured you'd want to know more about the school he has chosen to

Jose-Luis Jimenez

jljcolorado

1/ Thread on the relative importance of transmission modesA very difficult question, everyone reluctant to guess. As evidence accumulates, I decided to venture a guess, hoping to start some discussion.

Jeff Pearce

jeffpropulsion

Short thread: Sorry to talk about this a 2nd day, but this is a new low and deeply offensive. Ethiopians, your gov't is your own biz. My interest is in

Olivia Ugino

OliviaUgino

The conference is beginning. “We have seen and heard some of the consequences of students not being in school.” Lists academic, medical, mental, etc. Acknowledges the CDC coming out last

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