Doing some work on 'what is a professor' for an article and found this fun quote... "In The Uses of the University (2001), former University of California President Clark Kerr admits that he often thinks of his faculty as “a series of entrepreneurs with a common grievance over parking.”

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Small idiosyncratic language errors in otherwise clear technical papers are now a plus; assurance that I'm not wasting my time trying to read GPT spam. #neurips2025

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Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

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"frontier LRMs face a complete accuracy collapse beyond certain complexities. Moreover, they exhibit a counter-intuitive scaling limit: their reasoning effort increases with problem complexity up to a point, then declines despite having an adequate token budge" ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-i...

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It’s fascinating to see Microsoft and Apple go in such different directions when it comes to AI. Microsoft went all-in and wrote “Sparks of AGI” www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear... Apple has done the bare minimum and just wrote “The Illusion of Thinking” ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-i...

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