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- Hello, Olivia, my name's Roy. I'd love to know your claim to fame: for me, it's returning England to the "long ball" strategy in World Cup qualifiers - Bad idea, right? - Everyone's a bloody critic, aren't they

Teaching my undergrads how to use Naive Bayes to classify 100000 LinkedIn messages. Tough assignment because there's not a single non-spam observation in the training set.

wait, are they getting publons on top of this

that’s nothing: average prof simultaneously lets down dozens of coauthors

Abstracting from the story, what is this strange media thing in the US where they parenthesize the fact that he didn’t get it. Has this weird “we know you were wondering” in-crowd vibe to it.

This Columbia admissions story has a total chokehold on my timeline. Very hard to see how Harvard recovers from this.

This romanticizing of imagined 1950s *living standards* specifically— as opposed to 1950s culture, or 1950s social cohesion or 1950s politics—is weird. The conservative “I went to Europe and lost 10lbs in a week”, I guess.

I understand this is not the correct vibe today, but this image of the redcoats charging up the hill goes extremely hard, cmon

Every couple of days I genuinely forget this competition is happening. It’s great. x.com/i/events/19251…

I was taught this was partly why the South thought it had a very good shot of at least a stalemate early on. Not sure if that’s correct though.

Right, my annual patriotic post. The reason the world is so worried about, and critical of, the United States is because it has such high hopes for it. The world knows that we will all be infinitely better off if America— as a nation, a people, an idea— succeeds. Let’s do it.

One of his grandparents was from Norwich. He overcame a lot, is what I’m saying.

Given present political sensibilities, it’s just not that easy to do a (shallow) Hollywood “good guys v bad guys” dichotomy. cf US Civil War, WW2.

Just one plausible outcome, I suspect.

Not obvious to me for programs where applicants far outstrip places: seems more plausible it will just crowd out the poorest students, no?