Colin Elliott
@ProfCPE
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Professor @IUBloomington Alum: @uoregon Podcast: https://t.co/pAhBoXHw6F YouTube: https://t.co/D5gUHKBIJU Books: https://t.co/FunsWi6kW4
A safe distance from Btown, IN
Joined February 2023
I've been taking listener questions on the Pax Romana Podcast, and today's was a big one! Was the assassination of Julius Caesar justified? Listen to the episode here:
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Gus Johnson is such a faker.
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In a systematic review of 132 US research studies, @IndianaUniv shows the devastating effect that lockdowns and school closures had on public health. https://t.co/tWejcqxHEa
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AbstractIntroduction. U.S. lockdowns and school closures implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic were intended to mitigate viral transmission and protect
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There is nothing intelligent that gets said or discussed at ESPN anymore. Been that way for years. Its a worthless company when not watching a live event. People are finding out, during this dispute between YYTV and Disney that they don't need ESPN anymore.
Merril Hoge is the latest former ESPNer to blast the current state of the network. https://t.co/yvOh0uCYrY
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Many have realized the hip, science-style atheism of the 1990s–2010s was intellectually bankrupt and pretentious. It was fundamentally unserious. In fact, Christianity has much to offer. Its a priori claims are reasonable. And it offers profound hope worthy of sincere faith.
"I've realised Christianity is more plausible than I thought....the undeniable thing is that there's this extraordinary historical figure who did something extraordinary." Promient skeptic Alex O'Connor explains his evolving views, from atheist to agnostic.
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Almost every single one of these lightbulbs I've bought has died.
Remember when the companies told us that these new LED lightbulbs would last us 20 years….. yeah what lies that turned out to be
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Let me tell you a story about a guy named Gordon from Black Mesa. This guy worked in anomalous materials for years. He gets his health care from the HEV. He pays 339 energy units a charge. That's going to go up by 900 to over 1,100 units a charge. He can't afford it. This guy has
Sen. Kelly: Let me tell you a story about a guy named Brent from Mesa. This guy worked in public safety for 34 years. He gets his health care from the ACA. He pays $339 a month. That's going to go up by $900 to over $1,100 a month. He can't afford it. This guy has an autoimmune
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IU Professor @ProfCPE Colin Elliot: "After Charlie Kirk: Ancient Rome's Lessons on Political Violence and the Death of Republics" Tiberius Gracchus was murdered in 133 BC, Rome's elites endorsed it. Violence spiraled, ending the Republic. What can history teach us now? $50
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Students: Stop using AI to write your papers, now. If the ethical problems didn't stop you, or the fact that you are making yourself into an intellectual invalid didn't stop you, please at least stop out of self-preservation: fake work will soon be easily traceable.
LLMs are injective and invertible. In our new paper, we show that different prompts always map to different embeddings, and this property can be used to recover input tokens from individual embeddings in latent space. (1/6)
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Been saying it for weeks, but Indiana is the best Team in the Country right now. Period.
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now imagine that you know it won't grow back wonder what that must feel like
Natalie Portman really shaved her hair for this scene in V for Vendetta (2006) It was a one-take shot, there was no room for error. She said “It was the most stressful thing.” Director told that he “made sure clippers weren't stuck.” https://t.co/3zyqz2Va7B
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Released on Oct 23 and 24 in 1995 - 30 years ago. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
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Explore the pivotal moments following Julius Caesar’s assassination. Who seized power in the ensuing chaos, and how did it shape power dynamics in the city? Who Took Control After Caesar's Assassination? | Roman History Lecture |... https://t.co/pJkuPO6XRf via @YouTube
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S.Pellegrino.
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I have just finished reading the ‘𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬 - 𝐀 𝟐,𝟎𝟎𝟎-𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲’ by Edward J. Watts and I enjoyed it thoroughly. It is the story of the Roman state from the founding Rome to the crusader sack of Constantinople. Writing two thousand years of history
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This guy should mow professional baseball fields. Screw the HOA
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When I look back on my life of mediocrity, surrounded by my kids and family at my deathbed, I know I’ll regret not answering a few more work emails in my cognitive prime—instead of that curious question from my 9-year-old about how stars are made. Mediocrity, it is.
"'Work-life balance' will keep you mediocre," per WSJ opinion. Do you agree?
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