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Chiefly interested in applying the methods of a discipline I took one undergrad course in to topics entirely ignored in my graduate education.

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Andrew Goldstone @agoldst@mastodon.social · Jul 07, 2026

Replying to @kjhealy@mastodon.social

@kjhealy@mastodon.social I almost didn't need to look to guess that the first reply would tell you the problem was "not with the make file but with your system" https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/1999-December/005581.html

Andrew Goldstone @agoldst@mastodon.social · May 18, 2026

jfc all I want to do is buy some socks

Andrew Goldstone @agoldst@mastodon.social · May 16, 2026

obviously it's just engagement bait, but presenting a list of 100 novels as "the greatest literature" is indeed…symptomatic. Perhaps they would enjoy this slide I made for my intro students

Andrew Goldstone @agoldst@mastodon.social · May 16, 2026

Replying to @ncecire.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

@ncecire.bsky.social always in search of cruder substitutes for thought

Andrew Goldstone @agoldst@mastodon.social · May 16, 2026

Spare a thought for the everything-is-bayesian-updating people. Once champions of smug-probability-knowing, now out-smugged by purveyors of it-just-works! brute-force maximum likelihood estimation

Andrew Goldstone @agoldst@mastodon.social · May 12, 2026

Replying to @joncgoodwin.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

@joncgoodwin.bsky.social I should hope so. He has a degree in economics, you know

Andrew Goldstone @agoldst@mastodon.social · May 12, 2026

president of my university really outdoing himself here. "The deficit is a social construct." https://www.dailytargum.com/article/targum-exclusive-president-tate-talks-deficit-path-forward-for-inclusion-rutgers-edge-20260504

Andrew Goldstone @agoldst@mastodon.social · May 12, 2026

Sora, generate a black comedy combining nuclear annihilation and paranoia about impure substances entering the body; include a mad inventor running loose in the military-industrial complex

Andrew Goldstone @agoldst@mastodon.social · May 10, 2026

wile-e-coyote-looking-down moment on papers here for me. Yo, software engineers: congratulations on a technical achievement fully comparable to the invention of fracking

Andrew Goldstone @agoldst@mastodon.social · May 08, 2026

the backlist is not dead but sleepeth

Andrew Goldstone @agoldst@mastodon.social · May 08, 2026

Thanks to John Thompson's Book Wars, I even know what BookBub is. My 2013 monograph, misfiled under its series title, could be your "next read" for cheap!

Andrew Goldstone @agoldst@mastodon.social · May 08, 2026

Wary of Second-Home Tax, New York's Wealthy Turn to AI with Concerns About Having More Babies

Andrew Goldstone @agoldst@mastodon.social · May 07, 2026

nationwide Canvas outage thanks to ransomware attack. It's ironic, you see, because Canvas is, in its essence, itself a ransomware attack on higher education

Andrew Goldstone @agoldst@mastodon.social · May 07, 2026

RE: @associatedpress@flipboard.com

Pictured in this story: Old Queens, which top management moved out of to a more fortified location after a 2014 sit-in protesting Condi Rice as commencement speaker forced her to back out

Andrew Goldstone @agoldst@mastodon.social · May 06, 2026

Replying to @agoldst@mastodon.social

Just right on the money about management vs professionals

Andrew Goldstone @agoldst@mastodon.social · May 06, 2026

excellent (neo-)institutionalist explanation of university management herd-following from moocs to llms: Actually look at who the bozos are signaling to and why

https://www.aaup.org/issue/spring-2026/what-does-ai-do

Andrew Goldstone @agoldst@mastodon.social · Apr 15, 2026

Replying to @dynamic@social.coop

@dynamic@social.coop yes. one might add, we also have a similar insight about the sheer crazy-making tedium of monitoring from the world of…grading student papers

Andrew Goldstone @agoldst@mastodon.social · Apr 15, 2026

+1 to implication that literacy is the very heart of the LLMatter:
“The number that I am interested in is something like ‘How many words of normal business English per day can a manager read and check for accuracy and sense, without their mind wandering and without going mad?’”

https://backofmind.substack.com/p/the-most-important-number

Andrew Goldstone @agoldst@mastodon.social · Aug 28, 2024

Replying to @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social

@benmschmidt@sigmoid.social video arcade tokens: talk about dead metaphors! And I still have T tokens I hoarded for so long I missed the window to exchange them for Charlie-value. To me the typographic metaphor is easier (a word is like a letter, especially if you have idiograms on the brain). But your point about type coins is good. And reminiscent of Lisa Gittelman on the way models were actual three-dimension objects before they were abstractions.

Andrew Goldstone @agoldst@mastodon.social · Aug 28, 2024

Replying to @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social

@benmschmidt@sigmoid.social good rabbit hole. Why do you think numismatic? Looking back cursorily at Peirce it's not obvious he's thinking coins, and the numismatic meanings, which I just learned 60 seconds ago, don't seem like a very clear metaphor for the semiotic ones.

Andrew Goldstone @agoldst@mastodon.social · Feb 29, 2024

Victory for CFU-UAW! NYU's non-tenure-track faculty voted 553-72 for the union. Those are the numbers we like to see. This is a nationally significant victory for the fastest-growing category of faculty in the US—and for all who care about the quality of higher education.

There is power in a union! #solidarity

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/new-york-universitys-non-tenure-faculty-elect-union-in-uaw-win

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