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What is the difference between reasoning and predicting what reasoning would look like?

One larger problem here is the value of a research paper is rarely the specific knowledge it adds but in the process of researching that adds to the collective knowledge+experience of those involved, especially training graduate students. AI papers shortcut this entirely. Academia has a lot to answer for this too by making papers the currency of success. AI generated papers are almost shortcut learning at a full system level.

For R+RStudio users, any opinions on the switch? Assistant seems to be the big departure, trying to work out if worth losing keyboard shortcut muscle memory for

Beside the point but I really love the rainbow sparkles trailing the cursor on the netscape theme of this blog. Takes me back to a time when the internet was...fun

While this is an excellently written piece and really insightful into the state of higher education funding, what seems to be missing from the debate is concrete ideas of what should be done differently (either in 2014 or today). A lot of US innovation success comes from deep pockets of private venture capital, which is just missing in the UK. So if you're a politician/bureaucrat with a (let's face it) relatively small budget and much politics to deal with, the best strategy to take is not obvious (at least to me).