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From one piece AI is breaking the academic sorting machine 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Academic publishing functions mainly to sort people for jobs rather than to produce useful knowledge.Their words
The purpose of the academic output is to sort people out for jobs.
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I predict that, over time, the focus will move away from "papers as the final output."
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consuming its publications is so easy for the models (the world's knowledge is neatly serried in their pretraining corpora) and so cumbersome for most humans (with trenches of CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls ensuring that only the unusually dedicated reader will ever make contact)
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There is nothing wrong with promoting perspectives that have political commitments; in fact, intellectual diversity requires this, because some viewpoints include political commitments.
From one piece How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandt 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Family income, not IQ, is the single biggest predictor of a child's academic performance in America.Their words
The single biggest indicator of your performance is your family income. You can predict somebody's test scores basically.
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We have sort of how you treat academics and how you treat sports. And if we took the sports ethos and the athletic ethos in America and we applied it to academics, we would fix every academic problem in this country.
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One thing that is showing up is that, in hep-th as elsewhere, AI is being used to scam the public.
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Software is kind of unique in having the third kind of the practitioner conference where we are just meeting to get better at what we do. We also are really the only kind to really focus heavily on like open source in making our knowledge freely available.
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Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your OrganizationTheir words
. Understanding how we grow and develop will help you become a better leader and a more empathetic colleague. More accessible than his academic work, this book also provides a framework for understanding underlying beliefs and motivations that might be holding you back.
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Further, the fact that there is no such thing as a ‘Dark Ages’ and that a term we used for source survival has escaped containment and been rendered meaningless by a bunch of poorly read self-congratulatory dolts is, in fact, what we call ‘settled academic fact’.
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If human beings can dismiss academic arguments merely because they lead to politically unwelcome conclusions, what’s the point of having academic arguments about politically-charged subjects?
From one piece There Are No Miracles in Education 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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That makes perfect sense when you consider that schools control 10% or less of the variance in student academic outputs.
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Academic talent is normally distributed, so some students failing is inevitable rather than anybody's fault.Their words
Academic talent is normally distributed throughout the population, and so some degree of failure is literally inevitable.
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From one piece Education Doesn't Work 3.0 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But with education and intelligence, we’re unwilling to countenance the simple reality that some people are better equipped to succeed and some worse.
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Children settle into a band of academic performance early in life and stay in it, whatever their schooling does.Their words
The brute reality is that most kids slot themselves into academic ability bands early in life and stay there throughout schooling.
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China’s World ViewTheir words
Senior academic advisor to the Chinese Communist Party feels most political tensions come from a misunderstanding of China’s world view, hence the subtitle “demystifying to prevent global conflict”, and his intrinsic desire to explain. I love its insights and historical context, especially around “Respect-centered diplomacy” and how the CCP is structured.
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Universities would be better run by business leaders than by academics the faculty approves of.Their words
I would argue having a business leader run these institutions and then having a board that has, itself, diverse viewpoints, and by the way, permanently structured to have diverse viewpoints is a much better way to run a university than picking an academic that the faculty supports.
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PsychTheir words
Despite having read a few bookshelves worth of academic psychology texts, I enjoyed Yale professor Paul Bloom's survey of the field. Because understanding psychology cannot be divorced from understanding its history, I enjoyed Bloom's birds-eye view of the field from the past to the present day.
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I think the weird thing about being a scientist or an academic in general is you have to believe really strongly what you do while questioning it all the time. That’s a hard balance to have.
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The Righteous MindTheir words
This is the only one I’m not crazy about. My academic BS detector got tripped a few times while reading it, and it turns out that there are a number of better measurements emerging in moral psychology.
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Lost ConnectionsTheir words
Useful and interesting read. Touching at times. But as an academic work, it’s flawed.
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Americana: A 400-Year History of American CapitalismTheir words
Americana traces the history of American-style Capitalism, reminding us the political economy is far more complex than the simple labels we tend to use. Reality is far messier, filled with externalities, complications and comprises then is predicted by academic theories.
From one piece Collections: How Your History Gets Made 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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pop history will not get you tenure, which leads to neglect in the academy and consequently the big pop-history books are often not written by the best historians in their fields.
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I am going to contend that the primary purpose of the discipline of history is to foster greater historical knowledge in the public, in order that the public can use that knowledge (and the skills that come with it) to make better decisions.
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