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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt @samth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Annoyingly maybe the most important book doesn't have an image on amazon.

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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt @samth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The next guy was only an unindicted co-conspirator.

"DiMasi is the third consecutive Massachusetts house speaker to later become a convicted felon due to crimes committed in office."

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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt @samth.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I do not think I am mistaken. In particular, citing 2014 data is not very useful given the shifts recently. See here for eg FIRE's recent survey, which discusses this issue explicitly.

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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt @samth.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This image appeared to me today, unbidden

ChatGPT watching Gremlins, generated by ChatGPT

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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt @samth.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Here's literally what happens if you put in Matt's prompt and then what you quoted.

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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt @samth.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Because I can't let this go, here's the Big 10 WBB All-Conference teams plotted by @herhoopstats.com Win Shares and @barttorvik.bsky.social PRPG, along with some notable other players. cc @hooplawyatt.bsky.social

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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt @samth.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Weird to have a farmers market sponsored by Sysco

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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt @samth.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Here's a scatter plot of final exam grade vs a heuristic "AI score" for students in my intro class (for maximum irony the scoring program and data analysis were written by AI). There was less correlation than I expected and lots of people with a score of 0.

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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt @samth.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

It's more than just generalizing from yourself, it's that constructivism being true is a very nice thing to think about teaching and learning and students. Think about the slogan in this image, which is on many teachers' walls:

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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt @samth.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

This is the entire elite college admissions debate summed up in a single figure.

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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt @samth.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

In 2009 on reddit I was apparently already jaded about telling people about the relationship between scheme and lisp macro systems. Another vote for "nothing ever changes"

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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt @samth.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

No Kings, Bloomington Indiana Biggest protest yet here

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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt @samth.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

The actual number of hours that Americans work hasn't changed much over the last 20 years.

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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt @samth.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Seems like 20% normal disagreement, 50% dunks, 20% agreement, and 10% this stuff.

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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt @samth.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Like, Bluesky is you and me arguing about other people on the left yelling at Yglesias, and Twitter is this:

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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt @samth.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Yes, this is genuinely an important Abundance value-add.

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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt @samth.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Meanwhile my representative is less chaotic but just as bad:

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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt @samth.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

There's a lot, good and bad, to say about AI, but this is still pretty incredible.

ChatGPT recognizing the blog Fire Joe Morgan from a very vague description.

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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt @samth.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Over the 10 days, I wrote a new Racket library for "expect testing", a style that @yminsky.bsky.social has advocated for in OCaml. github.com/samth/recspe... As an experiment, I built it entirely with Codex (the OpenAI async AI programming tool). I have some thoughts.

A screencast of using recspecs in emacs.

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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt @samth.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Redex does something like this for some things.

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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt @samth.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

While that's definitely part of the motivation for creating it, I think this picture suggests other structural reasons not specific to US history.

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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt @samth.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Here's a shot from Google Maps, for example:

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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt @samth.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

And it turns out we're right! cspubs.org

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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt @samth.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

This feels like intentional self-parody.

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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt @samth.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I think this is a pretty impressive result for o1. I gave it no other context.

Chatgpt o1 correctly identifying a picture of me near the wolf diorama at the Bell museum

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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt @samth.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

In Bloomington, Indiana. Two and three are even of paths that the city is supposed to clear.

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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt @samth.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

It makes me very angry that the new @citybloomington.bsky.social greenway, which we spent a million dollars on, is entirely blocked here because not only has it not been plowed, but the city plowed snow _onto_ the path at the end.