Decluttering from this week: a set of handmade wooden TV trays (a wedding gift almost 30 years ago) went to the curb. We have had perfectly nice coffee tables for a while now and hadn't used the trays in years. A picker nabbed them almost immediately.
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Adventures in decluttering for the day: throwing out an older carryon bag that's seen some things. Both of its handles have torn off, so not really viable to use it anymore.
This is the bag that I used for countless work trips back in the 2010s. Me and this bag and a lot of trips to the Louisville and Cincinnati airports.
I post more on Bluesky these days, but I started decluttering updates here first, so here I shall continue with those! Among the items I schlepped to Goodwill this week: my interview suit, purchased ca 2000 when I first went on the academic job market. It no longer fit either literally or metaphorically, but I still felt a pang of sadness. I'm not that person anymore at all, but it feels bittersweet to realize how young & unrealistically hopeful about higher ed in general I was back then.
Dare ObasanjoWhenever I encounter a breakdown in an organization or professional interaction, I remember the attribution pyramid.
It’s most likely people’s incentives aren’t aligned then they simply don’t understand the problem and least likely that they’re jerks.
JessamynFriday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. The day after US Thanksgiving means different things to different people. For me it's Buy Nothing Day and I'm probably home playing Scrabble. Other people may be out shopping. If people are at work they may not want to be. We can all mindfully email and maybe make all our burdens a little lighter.
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Shop Interior: silver, gold goods - indicative of wealth/trade.
Dr. Lucky Tran 
This is a really great perspective from Yann LeCun. Despite the hype of LLMs, they are still primarily fancy autocomplete which means they’ll always be difficult to control and mainly just regurgitate their training.
This isn’t artificial intelligence from science fiction. This isn’t an adaptable and learning system which can invent new things. We will need new AI architectures to actually deliver that dream, not LLMs.
That said, LLMs will still be an extremely disruptive technology.
War and Peas 🧿
Tom WalkerDo not trust AI to tell you which mushrooms to pick.
By extension, you can no longer trust Amazon results for that, or Google results either.
Since moving to IRB administration, I've sometimes wondered if people even remember they've been in a research study. Today's adventures in decluttering suggest I myself did not. Apparently I was in a research study about my postdoc program about 15 years ago & I have no memory of this! I found an interview transcript with a university IRB number on it. so 🤷🏻♀️