AlphaSchool, a story

How it started:

“Motivation is 90 percent of what creates a great learning experience,” [co-founder] MacKenzie Price said.

How it's going:

Fascinating! When I search for this article on bluesky, I see two different headlines:
apnews.com/article/cali...
"California governor signs law to protect kids from the risks of AI chatbots"
"California governor vetoes bill to restrict kids’ access to AI chatbots"
...

New advertising data privacy settings on LinkedIn for EU!

If you're considering a CS PhD but concerned about pursuing it in US, I'm happy to chat about EU options. I just did this and am starting a #PhD in Spain this year on fairness and interpretability of LMs.
DM me and ask about applications, funding, programs, etc. #academicsky #computerscience

Super excited to share that this Fall, I will be moving to Barcelona to start a PhD at Pompeu Fabra researching language model safety and interpretability around questions of bias and discrimination. I've been working on my balancing act: deep learning by day, beachside shoulder rides by sunset 😅

Here in the forward, Allen uses Arendt’s chief proposal, “to think what we are doing” to frame the role of science: that it should support the conversation about what we should be doing, not lead it.

I’ve only barely started The Human Condition, by Hannah Arendt, but I can already see how relevant it is to modern scientific and political life as both a diagnosis of how we got here and a guide to moving forward.

Awkward..

First impression: kinda weirded out. I wonder how this will handle separating music I like from music my toddler likes but we use my Spotify to play...