EDUCATION

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Harvard Not Fundamentally Different From Other Universities

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24 May 2025 12h27

Harvard is not fundamentally different from other universities.

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Pinker Brings Facts and Sanity to Harvard Academic Debates

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24 May 2025 12h16

Steven Pinker injects some facts and much-needed sanity in the debates around Harvard and American academia.

University autonomy versus government control in AI policy

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24 May 2025 11h59

I don’t think it’s methodical. It’s just a shot in a tug of war between ideologically captured universities and a president that demands fealty or quid quo pro

University Political Neutrality: Essential for Scientific Integrity

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24 May 2025 11h36

Defending the political neutrality of universities is not a political opinion but a rational necessity. Once science opens itself to ideology, it loses not just legitimacy, it will also become weapon and victim of political camps and cabals

Academia’s State Monopoly and Political Vulnerability Crisis

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24 May 2025 11h21

Academia is completely unfazed by replication crises and ideological corruption, because it is a state sanctioned monopoly. But it’s threatened by an investiture conflict when it loudly serves different political ends than the government or the general public

Academia incentives: institutional barriers to genuine scientific commitment

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24 May 2025 10h42

“Belief in science” usually refers to a spiritual faith in Akademia, instead of a commitment to science. Academia embodies science not better than churches embody God: in a multigenerational institution, employees follow economic, political, social and psychological incentives.

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Explain zero-knowledge proofs for three audiences

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24 May 2025 9h40

2/ Multi-audience explanation "Explain “zero-knowledge proofs” to:
– a 12-year-old using a playground analogy
– a software engineer in 3 sentences
– a venture capitalist focusing on business impact" Claude:

Learning Human Movement Kinetics with Minimal Training Data

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24 May 2025 8h33

Outside of body language, the kinetics of efficient human movement have few free parameters, so you don’t need a lot of data to learn them. The rest can probably be done with video instruction.