https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/public/ recent bookmarks from cshalizi 2026-05-04T14:22:35+00:00 https://stackingthebricks.com/how-blogs-broke-the-web/ cshalizi the_web_we_have_lost blogging we_shape_our_tools_and_our_tools_shape_us the_present_before_it_was_widely_distributed via:? https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:a4d5cd0b780a/ 2026-04-16T17:38:56+00:00 https://henrich.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum5811/files/henrich/files/hong_henrich_-_2021_-_the_cultural_evolution_of_epistemic_practices.pdfd cshalizi to:NB divination superstition cultural_evolution epistemology via:? https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:55ac0f0a6d48/ 2026-04-16T17:33:41+00:00 https://www.academia.edu/106616966/Landemore_Can_AI_bring_deliberation_to_the_masses cshalizi to:NB democracy large_language_models_(so_called) deliberative_democracy landemore.helene via:? https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:046e2daa4d7c/ 2026-04-16T17:30:22+00:00 https://theoryandpractice.org/2024/10/Yes,%20we%20did%20discover%20the%20Higgs!/ cshalizicranmer.kyle particle_physics hypothesis_testing statistics philosophy_of_science via:? sociology_of_science science_as_a_social_process have_read to:blog https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:86fa85118401/ 2026-03-22T04:02:11+00:00 https://www.percepta.ai/blog/can-llms-be-computers cshalizihave_read large_language_models_(so_called) via:? slightly_mad https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ecee8ee1f1a2/ 2026-03-06T03:46:35+00:00 https://karpathy.github.io/2026/02/12/microgpt/ cshalizi large_language_models_(so_called) to_teach:statistics_and_generative_ai via:? in_NB have_read https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:9ba05b34a85a/ 2026-03-03T21:12:37+00:00 https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22271 cshalizi to:NB large_language_models_(so_called) via:? https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:6f60e1cacd05/ 2026-02-12T17:04:26+00:00 https://hegemon.substack.com/p/the-epstein-files-and-russiagate cshalizi our_decrepit_institutions corruption the_continuing_crises have_read via:? https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:5cdd90f2a2f6/ 2026-02-07T20:28:02+00:00 https://www.themathesontrust.org/library/hagakure-book-of-the-samurai cshalizi books:noted have_read bushido via:? https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:fd0e80711393/ 2026-02-07T20:26:58+00:00 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02196-7 cshalizi to:NB neuroscience network_data_analysis evisceration functional_connectivity via:? have_read https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:2dc87b1031bb/ 2026-02-07T20:26:17+00:00 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/01/16/civil-war-university-of-austin-bari-weiss-00729688?media_author_id=63379887135&media_id=3811554621182285242_63379887135&ranking_info_token=gcayztq2zjixmja1zdy0nmu5ymmynjy0zmjizdzizmfhnix+m9ydfdgefv7h3zyngbm cshalizi academia running_dogs_of_reaction have_read via:? us_culture_wars https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:8d2ce6b3e890/ 2026-02-07T20:08:01+00:00 https://profmarkfabian.substack.com/p/airing-my-grievances-with-wellbeing cshalizi measurement psychometrics social_measurement evisceration have_read via:? to_teach https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:fdbb6da02779/ 2025-12-29T01:48:52+00:00 https://julesevans.medium.com/iggy-pop-on-gibbons-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire-11b14786035a cshalizi gibbon.edward roman_empire pop.iggy via:? 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have_read https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c84f369a7c21/ 2025-08-16T13:20:08+00:00 https://web.archive.org/web/20241117232629/https://www.reddit.com/r/theprimeagen/comments/1gqv4vc/teaching_computer_science_in_the_age_of_gippity/ cshalizi have_read teaching our_decrepit_institutions via:? academia education https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:1e025c3062b2/ 2025-08-05T15:25:51+00:00 https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mothership-vortex-an-investigation cshalizius_politics corruption our_decrepit_institutions have_read via:? https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:3f10ec195087/ 2025-07-28T15:19:22+00:00 https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198250579.003.0005 cshalizi to:NB have_read artificial_intelligence philosophy_of_mind simon.herbert via:? https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:82f9da509279/ 2025-07-28T14:42:37+00:00 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17588928.2025.2523875 cshalizi to:NB neuroscience neural_coding_and_decoding via:? 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https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:97e6f84d0342/ 2025-01-13T04:02:44+00:00 https://paleofloof.com/collections/plushies cshalizi toys paleontology dinosaurs gifts via:? https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d6a6aaf41afa/ 2025-01-01T01:28:08+00:00 https://www.3-16am.co.uk/articles/noble-savage-redux-rousseau-meets-the-pirah%C3%A3 cshalizilinguistics anthropology have_read via:? evisceration https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:797fb2d51297/ 2024-12-11T16:09:02+00:00 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42113-022-00166-x cshalizi to:NB cognitive_science philosophy_of_science via:? https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:179203deeef9/ 2024-12-09T21:37:04+00:00 https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/simsek21a.html cshalizi to:NB to_read neural_networks via:? symmetries_of_neural_networks https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d94a50e18b83/ 2024-12-06T13:56:06+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24313222/chatgpt-pardon-biden-bush-esquire cshalizi large_language_models_(so_called) to_teach to_teach:data-mining to_teach:undergrad-ADA to_teach:statistics_of_inequality_and_discrimination information_retrieval have_read via:? https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:4dc951b569f7/ 2024-09-05T18:01:42+00:00 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590113323000226 cshalizi to_read academic_freedom us_culture_wars via:? vanderweele.tyler_j. https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:6a892c731473/ 2024-08-01T18:50:33+00:00 https://thegradient.pub/text-embedding-inversion/ cshalizivia:? have_read large_language_models_(so_called) locality_sensitive_hashing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c78ed6ad4bda/ 2024-07-11T14:03:21+00:00 https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-013-0572-3 cshalizi to_read confidence_sets statistics teaching via:? have_skimmed in_NB https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:1a4dda6ad6cb/ 2024-06-18T17:25:18+00:00 https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2024/05/the-nonprofit-industrial-complex-and-the-corruption-of-the-american-city/ cshalizi have_read our_decrepit_institutions via:? https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d0cd22fc0079/ 2024-06-18T17:19:25+00:00 https://madeinamericathebook.wordpress.com/2024/05/16/rooting-around-for-root-causes-can-be-a-big-distraction/ cshalizipublic_policy causality sociology have_read via:? https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:3e783e7c5de2/ 2024-06-18T17:17:25+00:00 https://archive.ph/cJY3B cshalizihave_read demography via:? https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:a45c954f4051/ 2024-06-18T17:16:45+00:00 https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-trial-legal-models-hallucinate-1-out-6-or-more-benchmarking-queries cshalizilarge_language_models_(so_called) law artificial_intelligence your_favorite_deep_neural_network_sucks have_read via:? in_NB https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e8b6a187cfbc/ 2024-06-10T14:16:59+00:00 https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18055v1 cshalizi to:NB to_read logistic_regression learning_theory to_teach:childs_garden_of_statistical_learning_theory via:? https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:2fb188076270/ 2024-05-15T14:49:47+00:00 https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.14316 cshalizi large_language_models_(so_called) via:? in_NB https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:39031f20b567/ 2024-05-14T15:15:23+00:00 https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.010401 cshalizi information_theory quantum_mechanics decoherence via:? in_NB zurek.w.h. https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:71c3fdd0e944/ 2024-05-14T13:03:25+00:00 https://www.nber.org/papers/w32342 cshalizi to:NB social_movements causal_inference us_politics via:? economistic_imperialism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:fc5b3281d19d/ 2024-05-13T18:32:20+00:00 https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.17035 cshalizi large_language_models_(so_called) via:? in_NB https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:1d0f65613041/ 2024-03-05T15:29:45+00:00 https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18491 cshalizi your_favorite_deep_neural_network_sucks of_course_its_really_a_spin_glass neural_networks via:? mezard.marc stochastic_differential_equations mixture_models generative_diffusion_models in_NB to_teach:statistics_and_generative_ai https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c892f4f7dfb6/ 2023-12-05T18:25:42+00:00 https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1993.72.1.123 cshalizi to:NB to_read via:? standardized_testing mental_testing to_teach:statistics_of_inequality_and_discrimination psychometrics prediction https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:2250814cce70/ 2023-09-20T18:13:09+00:00 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167865513004145 cshalizi to_read nearest_neighbors history_of_science islamic_civilization via:? al-haytham in_NB https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:9d7a3175b2a5/ 2023-09-20T17:36:08+00:00 https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/rio-arriba-county-sheriff-sentenced-to-3-years-taken-into-custody/article_01955b14-5386-11ec-89da-53a270046f32.html cshalizi police corruption new_mexico via:? have_read https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:2c6ed1b5e684/ 2023-08-14T17:45:19+00:00 https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.3699 cshalizi in_NB reinforcement_learning learning_theory littman.michael_l. via:? https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:db4b86ee8a65/ 2023-08-10T20:06:00+00:00 https://medium.com/@Rationalist69/the-perpetual-helldump-d9043468f329 cshalizi have_read networked_life re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator computer_networks_as_provinces_of_the_commonwealth_of_letters via:? https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c2b6e7e866f7/ 2023-06-30T11:46:01+00:00 https://www.newsweek.com/2023/07/21/ai-scariest-beast-ever-created-says-sci-fi-writer-bruce-sterling-1809439.html cshalizi artificial_intelligence sterling.bruce large_language_models_(so_called) via:? have_read https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:65ba3c4007da/ 2023-06-28T17:01:16+00:00 https://mattbruenig.com/2023/03/05/equality-and-equity/ cshalizi political_philosophy equity_vs_equality via:? have_read to_teach:statistics_of_inequality_and_discrimination https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:dae6691c2c9f/ 2023-06-15T19:45:51+00:00 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3773462 cshalizito:NB divination magic anthropology cultural_evolution via:? https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:48687cf314f0/ 2023-05-22T18:20:47+00:00 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0286067 cshalizi causal_inference psychology to_teach:undergrad-ADA gershman.samuel via:? in_NB https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:86677951c9ee/ 2023-05-21T16:17:20+00:00 https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/134/4/1793/5492274?redirectedFrom=fulltext cshalizi to:NB via:? inequality economics food to_teach:statistics_of_inequality_and_discrimination https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:feae50efd9b2/ 2023-05-10T13:24:00+00:00 https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/5ecfa/ cshalizi large_language_models_(so_called) re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator via:? as_if_for:_tags_were_still_a_thing in_NB have_read https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:8051eb541d1e/ 2023-05-08T21:15:57+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/15/the-gun-numbers-just-3-of-american-adults-own-a-collective-133m-firearms cshaliziguns violence heavy_tails have_read via:? tracked_down_references https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:da4b214e694b/ 2023-05-02T20:58:44+00:00 https://networks.quantecon.org/ cshalizi economics social_networks via:? downloaded in_NB https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:1cf821aecad0/ 2023-05-02T20:34:33+00:00 https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/2023/04/02/the-thrill---and-the-mystery---of-a-1970s-bell-labs-ai-chatbot-known-as-red-father/?sh=1a95c2c62277 cshalizi have_read natural_language_processing artificial_intelligence the_present_before_it_was_widely_distributed bell_labs via:? https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:403e384e9413/ 2023-05-02T20:15:32+00:00 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tops.12644 cshalizi social_life_of_the_mind collective_cognition to_read via:? 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