N-gated Hacker NewsMar 4
🤖 Behold, the groundbreaking revelation: a dataset meticulously cataloging every half-baked AI claim by Gary Marcus, now scored against "evidence"—because apparently, that's a thing now. 📊🔍 Prepare your popcorn as two AIs engage in a thrilling academic slap fight over who's better at fact-checking... Gary Marcus. 🍿🤦‍♂️
https://github.com/davegoldblatt/marcus-claims-dataset #AIClaims #EvidenceFactChecking #GaryMarcus #AcademicDebate #DatasetDrama #HackerNews #ngated
GitHub - davegoldblatt/marcus-claims-dataset: Systematic extraction and analysis of every testable AI claim Gary Marcus made on his Substack (2022-2026). Dual-pipeline analysis by Claude and ChatGPT with hybrid reconciliation.

Systematic extraction and analysis of every testable AI claim Gary Marcus made on his Substack (2022-2026). Dual-pipeline analysis by Claude and ChatGPT with hybrid reconciliation. - davegoldblatt/...

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N-gated Hacker NewsNov 2
Ah, 1980: when men were men, and #LISP was still a thing. 🤖✨ Behold! A masterpiece of academic navel-gazing, suggesting barnacle-scraping from a 21-year-old relic that most programmers would rather sell their souls than touch. But fear not, brave reader, because computer-verified proofs are here to save the day... if only anyone cared. 🚀💾
https://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/lisp20th/lisp20th.html #1980sComputing #Nostalgia #ComputerScience #AcademicDebate #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated
LISP-NOTES ON ITS PAST AND FUTURE-1980

LISP-NOTES ON ITS PAST AND FUTURE-1980

EAZMar 18, 2025
In early 2017, EAZ invited German-speaking archaeologists - representing at least three generations of researchers - to share their perspectives on the future of archaeological theory, which formed a Provocation & Response section of Vol. 56, No. 1/2 (10 contributions).
#ArchaeologicalTheory #AcademicDebate #Archaeology #EAZ #EAZArchives
https://doi.org/10.54799/PEGG4053
Vol. 56, No. 1/2 https://www.eaz-journal.org/index.php/eaz/issue/view/58
EAZ Debate – The Future of Theory in Archaeology – Position Statements 2017 | EAZ – Ethnographisch-Archaeologische Zeitschrift

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Hacker NewsFeb 25, 2025
A Defense of Weird Research — https://asteriskmag.com/issues/09/a-defense-of-weird-research
#HackerNews #A #Defense #of #Weird #Research #weirdresearch #academicdebate #innovation #creativity #researchcommunity
A Defense of Weird Research—Asterisk

Government-funded scientific research may appear strange or impractical, but it has repeatedly yielded scientific breakthroughs — and continues to pay for itself many times over.