“Our estimates suggest that 10.6% of ICLR 2024 review sentences and 16.9% for EMNLP have been substantially modified by ChatGPT” 🫠

"It means 'blessed by kings'" - guy on the plane yesterday aiming to impress an American woman with his description of his home town, Bognor Regis.

Everything in this thread is correct. Housing supply matters. Here's hoping the next government really gets it. (mixed signals so far)

#SIGCSE2024 Today, 1345, room D135, Mark Guzdial and me on Big vs Rich Data: twenty minutes, two costumes, one montage of work by an early 20th century Dutch painter, three slide styles; two twits, one swing for the fences. Come and watch it go down (perhaps in flames).

"Results show that students tend not to follow test-driven development practices, even when explicitly directed to, and tend to create unit tests only to earn assignment credit rather than to guide their software development." dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

NEW: Water companies released record spills of raw sewage into England's waterways in 2023. The increase was huge. 3.6m hours of spills in 2023 vs 1.75m hours in 2022. They should only happen exceptionally. Water UK accepts it's unacceptable but said it was due to heavy rain.

The great Danny Kahneman has passed away. His contributions to behavioral economics are immense. Nothing describes his quirky personality more accurately than the fact that I own Richard H Thaler's book and dedication to him because Kahneman sold the book at a yard sale in Princeton.

Found an old leaflet from an insurer about the millennium bug, featuring this work-of-art paragraph: "The approach of the year 2000 is not insurable."

From a junk email I received. That final line is quite the collision of IP law and theology.

Key chart to keep in mind as the Conservatives suffer their worst ever defeat: The Tories didn’t lose this election because they were too right wing on some issues or too left wing on others. They lost because voters of all stripes judged them to be incompetent and dishonest.

It's always a good rule of thumb to assume that, when someone has won or succeeded at something, the people who are anointing them as a genius are underestimating the role of luck.

I'm currently recruiting Java educators for a study evaluating potential hints for Java novices. Will take ~30 minutes total to do a solo online task+survey, can be done whenever and wherever you like. If you're interested to participate, email me at [email protected]