Photo of a poster for the Carleton Anti-AI Society

The kids are ok!

I want to see more discussion on the role of consultant use in the deskilling of higher-ed administrations. If the upper admin don't have the capacity to think through problems, why are we employing them?

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Just wait till they find out about wheels!

Notice that Mark isn't bothering with alt text.

I am fully committed to Team Never LLMs.

Photo of a wayfinding plaque with a stylized moose, mounted on a large pink boulder outside the Carleton O-Train station.

I finally got a photo of the one at Carleton!

I figure that was why! I got very briefly held up at the Bronson entrance.

@kaiao.fi Your Prez was at my uni this morning! And went skating with our PM!

Can't be taking the coal away from the chatbots!

Truly the World's Finest Cat.

I think I see a nipple.

By smell, I assume?

Never mind that a family of skunks will happily de-grub your lawn *while you sleep* for free and with no strings attached!

It just occurred to me that the relative viscosities could play a role because of their effect on convection rate. Like how pie filling cools so much more slowly than an equivalently-shaped mass of hot water would. 🤔

But yes, heat capacity is going to be super relevant. Your dad rocks!

My first crosslist to astro-ph.CO and I immediately get an email from a crackpot begging for an arXiv endorsement. 😬

New paper today! ⚛️

Cool (semi-)analytic results on nonperturbative fermion production during scalar field oscillations (e.g. of the inflaton, post-inflation). Great work by our student Fazlul Yasin as part of his PhD!
arxiv.org/abs/2604.07326

Whoa!!

I guess if they form at that size, there's no way for them to puff back up to white-dwarf size... That is wild!

When you say tiny, are we talking ~3 solar masses tiny?

Or should I just go read the paper like a grownup.

I bet the answer is increasingly "A bot wrote my bio." :(

For most schools in the U.S., over budget on alcohol means more than $0.

Fake goatees for all crew members.

Damn this reminds me of that doomed submarine with the bluetooth videogame controller for steering controls.

The eternal question.

The Mitchell and Webb Situation - Farming YouTube video by mitchellandwebbstuff

This reminds me of David Mitchell on farming: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pDT...

The author admitted in the article that they use LLMs on a daily basis.

Too bad it was pretty clearly written by a bot. 💀

All the phraseology tells are there.

Just saying, there's nothing stopping tradhusbands from having sex with each other.

Some time after my Mac updated its OS, I spent two hours I couldn't really spare getting my Fortran compiler to work again. You really don't want to have to do that when you're someplace without decent WiFi, like say halfway to the moon.

I got excited at "Scalars are all you need...", then realized this isn't about Higgs physics. Darn.

He gave a great talk at UC Santa Cruz about the Sokal affair while I was a grad student there. I knew who he was because we'd used Ashcroft & Mermin as the textbook for our Solid State Physics course!

I did not know that he coined "shut up and calculate"; will get my attributions right in future!