William Gunn
Communications and community. More here: synthesis.williamgunn.org/about/
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- Reinforcement learning is a hell of a drug
- Another run at why drug development is so hard: developmentandresearch.bio
- Timelines to AGI continue to get shorter with each survey: theaidigest.org/ai2025-analy...
- Man Gemini deep research got really good
- It's much better than it was. I'm more impressed with it in areas I know less about than in areas where I know a lot. Still has problems regurgitating content farms & the whole "every link to a source is actually a Google search for the link" needs to DIAF.
- I hope more and more academics are realizing everything is political. It doesn’t make you biased* or an “activist,”** to realize this. *there is no such thing as unbiased. **wanting to make the world more just doesn’t mean your work is less rigorous or academic
- Look, if Rumeysa Ozturk just wants to go back to her studies, that is her choice and I don't want to hear a word about it. People are allowed to choose what they care about.
- If getting arrested, getting released, and becoming a folk hero that galvanizes resistance is "how this goes", I think we want more of this.
- Making fun of silly AI mistakes is its own genre of an exception not proving the rule, but I liked this one.
- I hope more of these people say, "gee, I guess I was wrong, government basically works".
- This is obviously what someone who cares only about their narrow self-interest and not about the privacy of others would do. Remain you of anyone?
- Well, well, well: Meta is building facial recognition tech for its Ray-Ban smart glasses. Incredible about-face when last year a Meta spokesperson lost their shit at me for reporting students had married facial recognition to the glasses. My comms with Meta here: www.404media.co/well-well-we...
- I got the best teaching evals of my career for a large course last semester— along with three teaching awards— after rebuilding my intro class around in-class handwritten essays. I simply do not believe that this is unsolvable or that students don't care about actually learning to do their work.
- In only two years, ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project. James D. Walsh writes for @intelligencer.com: nymag.com/intelligence....
- You can also require them to write with "track changes" on. It's the equivalent of showing your work in Math.
