A thoughtful take on the recent replication retraction. I share some ambivalence on whether procedural reforms will achieve the goals of “fixing” science.

From quantamagazine.org/solution-infor… and this gem of a paper on optimal stopping posted by Alex Bilzerian: x.com/alexbilz/statu…

Love this.

Took a class here this morning.

I’m trying to figure out why this is being interpreted as a crisis. Are women allowed to be or do better at anything without it meaning the sky is falling?

For the first time since WWII, every governing party facing election in a developed country this year lost vote share, via John Burn-Murdoch 2024 Democrats are the red dot. Absolutely critical context to any postmortem.

Certainly an interesting abstract.

With their new #IESfunded #NCER award, Eric Loken RMME - UConn and colleagues at UConn Neag School of Education and Southern Connecticut State University 🦉 will study system-wide factors relevant to expanding dual-enrollment programs for high school students. Learn more: ies.ed.gov/funding/grants…

“They’re playing my song!” The Marine Band playing “Something To Talk About” at the Honorees’ pre-show reception at the The White House. Just one incredible moment among many from The The Kennedy Center Honors this unforgettable weekend.

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This was fun to watch!!

I couldn't find an image that featured o3 and GPT-4o's performance on competition math (AIME 2024) in the same graph. So I made one. I also annotated the image with the date when each model was released. Conclusion: the speed of progress feels...intimidating.

Russian joke: Don't bother buying a 2025 calendar, just find one from your grandparents from 1941. They are identical!

I want to explain in down-to-earth terms what this paper is about, since it ultimately boils down to what I think are some really concrete and fundamental questions. 1/n

I don’t think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don’t understand or even realize exist.

Oh my goodness. GPT-o1 got a perfect score on my Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate #math exam, taking less than a minute to solve each problem. I freshly design non-standard problems for all of my exams, and they are open-book, open-notes. (Problems included below, with links to

Harvard with an evergreen quote for this first 100 days👇 —> “It remains unclear to us exactly what, among the government’s recent words and deeds, were mistakes or what the government actually meant to do and say.”

Did not believe this was a real letter.

If only Arxiv required researchers to sign at the top rather than the bottom of the page, none of this would’ve happened. statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/05/19/if-…

As a math teacher, it feels like half of my job is building mathematical confidence. Here are some ways I do that: