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Ranking of Baltic Universities, 2022-2023
Rank Institution ARWU QS THE USNWR Average World Rank ๐ฅ University of Tartu ๐ช๐ช 501 296 201 256 313.5 ๐ฅ Vilnius University ๐ฑ๐น 701 400 801 801 651 ๐ฅ Riga Stradins University ๐ฑ๐ป NR 801 601 NR 701 4 Tallinn University of Technology ๐ช๐ช NR 701 601 1017 773 5 University of Latvia ๐ฑ๐ป NR…
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Ranking of Nordic Universities, 2022
Rank Institution Change from 2021 ARWU QS THE USNWR Average World Rank UR Karolinska Institute ๐ธ๐ช NA 41 NR 49 51 47 ๐ฅ University of Copenhagen ๐ฉ๐ฐ – 39 82 114 42 69.25 ๐ฅ University of Oslo ๐ณ๐ด – 67 101 126 89 95.75 ๐ฅ University of Helsinki ๐ซ๐ฎ – 92 106 110 99 101.75…
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Ranking of Finnish Universities, 2022
Rank Institution Change from 2021 ARWU QS THE USNWR Average World Rank ๐ฅ University of Helsinki (Helsingin yliopisto) – 92 106 110 99 101.75 ๐ฅ Aalto University (Aalto-yliopisto) – 301 116 201 273 222.75 ๐ฅ University of Turku (Turun yliopisto) – 401 291 351 342 346.25 UR University of Vaasa (Vaasan yliopisto) NA NR NR…
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LaMDA is not sentient
You might have read news stories about a Google engineer who recently claimed that an AI language model (LaMDA) is sentient. As many people have pointed out, LaMDA is definitely not sentient. They are correct. I also happen to think that the socio-cultural phenomenon of news articles about whether or not some certain AI is…
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Top 10 Baltic Universities, 2021
Rank Institution ARWU QS THE USNWR Average World Rank ๐ฅ University of Tartu ๐ช๐ช 401 300 251 255 301.75 ๐ฅ Riga Stradins University ๐ฑ๐ป NR 801 501 NR 651 ๐ฅ Vilnius University ๐ฑ๐น 701 400 801 735 659.25 UR Estonian University of Life Sciences ๐ช๐ช NR NR 801 NR 801 4 University of Latvia ๐ฑ๐ป…
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Literature in Wittgensteinโs Language ยง8
I was privileged enough to have the opportunity to take the late Barry Stroud’s final Later Wittgenstein course for undergraduates at Berkeley, back in 2017. In addition to inspiring many more traditional philosophical writings, it also inspired this slightly more unusual piece (which I didn’t hand in…though perhaps I should have!). Enjoy!
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Ranking of Universities in the European Union, 2021
Rank Institution Change from 2020 ARWU QS THE USNWR Average World Rank UR Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) University ๐ซ๐ท NA 38 44 40 NR ~ 40.67 UR Karolinska Institute ๐ธ๐ช NA 42 NR 39 48 43 ๐ฅ Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich ๐ฉ๐ช – 48 64 32 46 47.5 ๐ฅ Technical University of…
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Ranking of Finnish Universities, 2021
* This ranking is for the year 2021. See the newest, 2022, ranking here: https://snmcgannon.com/2022/10/25/ranking-of-finnish-universities-2022/ Rank Institution Change from 2020 ARWU QS THE USNWR Average World Rank ๐ฅ University of Helsinki (Helsingin yliopisto) – 82 104 101 94 95.25 ๐ฅ Aalto University (Aalto-yliopisto) – 301 112 201 275 222.25 ๐ฅ University of Turku (Turun yliopisto)…
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Ranking of Nordic Universities, 2021
* This ranking is for the year 2021. See the newest, 2022, ranking here: https://snmcgannon.com/2022/11/02/ranking-of-nordic-universities-2022/ Rank Institution Change from 2020 ARWU QS THE USNWR Average World Rank UR Karolinska Institute ๐ธ๐ช NA 42 NR 39 48 43 ๐ฅ University of Copenhagen ๐ฉ๐ฐ – 30 79 96 37 60.5 ๐ฅ University of Oslo ๐ณ๐ด +1 61…
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Do you ever wonder how English got the โhan/hanenโ pronoun?
There was once a time when children in English-speaking countries were assigned one of two pronoun pairs at birth. Nowadays, most people probably donโt even remember what those were. While itโs easy to imagine that we always used the โhan/hanenโ pronoun pair, in fact, these words only came into use after centuries of a problematic…