It’s really more of an urban legend than a myth. I think I saw a horror movie in the 90s about it.

A thread of indeterminate length about undefined arithmetic operations. 0/0

Using Lagrange multiplier exercises to remind students not to divide by zero

Desmos continues to make interactive illustrations incredibly easy to create.

Not me playing Asteroids to get ready for my sabbatical presentation in three weeks.

Since we're talking about proper word choice when communicating science to non-scientists, here's my list of some examples of "kinda-jargon." Jargon is when your non-scientist audience has never heard the word before. Kinda-jargon is they've heard it but in a very different context. #SciComm 🧪

This is the fundamental paradox of AI: if it's actually helping you, there is no way to know when it is no longer helping you. Put another way: if you can supervise it effectively enough to catch its mistakes, you probably didn't need it in the first place.

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Scaling up and shaping up large language models increased their tendency to provide sensible yet incorrect answers at difficulty levels humans cannot supervise, highlighting the need for a shift in AI design towards reliability, according to a paper in Nature. go.nature.com/4eCAnis 🧪

Dot product’s one thing Cross product’s another I beg you, don’t mix up A scalar and vector </Sabrina Carpenter voice>

Costco has stroopwafels. This is not a drill.

Depends. Does the 1 represent anything? Does it come with units?