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There was tons of research happening in the space of online misinformation after Cambridge Analytica scandal. But NSF cancelled all the existing grants for misinformation research based on Trump'…

The image in the header (Make my image more vibrant) is what Instagram's main feature was at the time of its launch in 2010

I pasted two paragraphs in GPTZero and got the following results: 19% AI, 65% mix of human and AI and remaining 16% human. As I wasn't logged in, I did not get other details.

That's how it starts

> Partially because it feels like it comes from a place of authority, and partially because of how self confident AI always sounds. To add to that, this research paper[1] argues that people with …

Where did you get 1.1 percentage point? The paper uses percentiles. "Overall, we show that student test scores improved by 0.6 percentiles, with the ban increasing spring test scores 1.1 percent…

And they do all this by reading the abstract.

Not sure why they bundled education and healthcare together. As far as higher education is concerned, the job market is terrible. Many state universities have hiring freeze as they are tightening belt…

Or just use SingleFile ( https://www.getsinglefile.com )

I have been using Claude.md to stuff way too many instructions so this article was an eye opener. Btw, any tips for Claude.md when one uses subagents?

Just today evening CNBC Fast Money had a small segment on the state of American consumers: https://youtu.be/Y4fcxBGFXLk Things are looking bad.…

Complete title: Meet The Tree That Produces The Only True Blue Fruit On The Planet. Hint: It’s Not Actually Blue

Revenue: $57,006 Gross margin: 73.4 %

I had pretty much the same experience.

> it's not as good as Claude today In my experience this is not true anymore. Of course, mine is just one data point.

Daniel Tosh said the best: Don’t put stickers on your car. Despite what you think they say, know they read, “I’m poor.” No one cares who you cheer for or what you believe in. Just drive a little faste…

I suspect a majority of my students this semester used LLMs to complete homework assignments. It is really depressing. I spent hours making these assignments and all they probably did was to copy and …

Nice job! I like the details you provide and the visualizations are nice too.

Same is true for sustainability related jobs. Given the backlash first from Texas, Florida, and other red states and now from the Trump administration, it is not at all surprising that these jobs are …

I assisted many professors in data collection for their research in the grad school. Later I also collected data for a couple of my papers. mTurk was very popular in the beginning in large part due to…

> Almost all these solar installation firms targeted at residential are more or less financial engineering companies selling loans wrapped up with solar as an afterthought. They make all their mone…

Yes it could be. But I checked the electricity price in Brazil and at $0.16 per kWh it is almost the same as what we pay in Texas. https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/Brazil/electr…

Is this because of the labor costs in the US? In other countries the payback period is much shorter. Someone I know in Brazil told me it is 3-5 years for them. On a related note, I asked my AC guy if …