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Take your paid break bitch that's your time

2022 will be remembered as the year when everyone thought that just having a substack URL could make them interesting.

When you think about a plant, say a dandelion, what sort of image forms in your mind?
#plant #dandelion #hiddenlifeofplants

A modest 2023 resolution: I'm always going to alternate my alcoholic drinks with water.

#FollowFriday #data #dataviz #mapping

This is random, but I'm also adding an interesting chart showing crime stories this fall on different news networks.

@albertocairo @alexcengler @austinkocher @paulgp @fgregg @arpitrage @tedpal @derekeder @stamen @micahflee @ian @Katyaabaz @tomschenkjr @sromalewski @gretchenmarina @enf @UrbanDemog @kareemcarr @rebecca @datasociety @ourworldindata

Le possum monstergirl

it’s hard to believe that in this day and age people are still wearing fir

#animeirl

Something feels a bit off...

One shot

Five shapes of apartment buildings, each with 60 homes. Top left, a wide block with doors off a long hallway, is the most common type built today in the US.

Top center is common in Europe, often as a perimter block wrapping around a yard. Today we'll also look at a few other styles.

Which do you prefer?
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At many universities, standardized tests have fallen out of favor in undergraduate and graduate admissions, meaning committees give more weight to other elements of the files. This includes the essays.

I assume admissions professionals are talking about this, but *anyone* who sits on an admission committees needs to consider the possibility that non-trivial share of essays are AI-generated or at least AI-assisted.

I wonder if ChatGPT will lead to a pause or reversal of GRExit and SATexit.