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Hundreds of people have now signed our open letter about the state of maths education in Ireland.
They include many of Ireland's leading startup founders, maths professors, the author of the most widely used applied maths textbook, our IMO medalists, parents, teachers...
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The government has released its draft mathematics curriculum for the Leaving Certificate, the main qualification that Irish teenagers leave secondary school with.
It is astonishingly bad. For @_fitzwilliam, we have written about why:
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Beatriz is great, and on the job market. If you need someone good on metrics who you can trust for work on economic research, data analysis, and generally writing and thinking clearly about complex ideas related to economics, send her a DM.
random chinese characters showing up in model outputs
Deepseek was trained using chatgpt, and now chatgpt is being trained on deepseek
1/ Started watching Suits recently…
Louis Litt (Suits: season 2, episode 3, 31:25):
Barbinger File, done.
Scofield Supoena, done.
Johnson Strategy, written.
Every single one of your assignments was completed by me last night.
What else do we have left to do?
2/ Uh, filing?
Filing, doc review, spell check.
Grunt work?
Yes, grunt work. Because that's your job.
On a *completely* unrelated note, The Cognitive Collapse is now published: open.substack.com/pub/caidei…
Autocorrect operates on symbols.
Predictive text operates on words.
LLMs operate on tokens.
But taste operates on truth, human truth.
Seeing a lot more "Made by Human" and "No AI Used" tags on content. It is important to understand this not as Luddism, but as a core aspect of creating good things. Using AI has so many advantages, but it isn't novel nor unique. We are the crafters and with all the hype we shouldn't forget or undervalue that.
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