I feel like human productivity is ultimately capped by the fact that google docs don't have tabs.

(But also because of our email equilibrium.)

Well this headline made me smile.

Science is pretty cool. Tag, you’re it, Midwest and Northeast.

Two junior faculty sit together trying to hold a conversation, repeatedly losing and unable to recover their trains of thought, and constantly go 'my memory used to be better...'

They should really make an Overleaf app. Just to make it easier when you’re lying in bed with your phone still neurotically tweaking things. Having to zoom way into a browser really takes the “fun” out of it.

Okay, *sigh*, give me advice about good pedagogy, useful evaluation, and disincentivizing cheating in large theoretical/mathy classes please. I'm starting to think I need to try something other than 'please don't cheat!' and 'learning is more important than evaluation!'

I am looking for postdocs to join my group at Boston University in the summer / fall of 2024 with interest in sequential decision making, RL, bandits. Both theory and experimental backgrounds apply. Some topics of interest: decision making with FMs, meta learning, RLHF, safe RL.

Insert joke about last year’s Chanukah candles miraculously lasting this year using some sort of resource-constrained eighth night approximation

What's your favorite letter? Mine's \ell.

Please restore my faith. How do you handle small changes to slides?

It's time for The Lonely Island's comeback.

Anyone else looking for an invite to בלו סקיי? Not too many people there but there's discourse without all the *makes wild gestures* of this place.

Tweet of an extreme opinion with shocking levels of engagement.

Me aloud to myself watching the Golden Bachelor rose ceremony: ' #recencybias .'