Arthur Spirling @arthur_spirling

Professor @Princeton

 Princeton, NJ
arthurspirling.org
Joined December 2015
Today is my first day in 5 years where I am *not* a DGS. It has been a pleasure, and I've learned a lot. Reflecting today, I won't give you one of those self-serving "7 traits of highly successful grad students" lists. Instead, here's 6: github.com/ArthurSpirling/Be…

GitHub - ArthurSpirling/BeingAGradStudent: Comments on the Nature of Being a Graduate Student

Comments on the Nature of Being a Graduate Student - ArthurSpirling/BeingAGradStudent

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Arthur Spirling retweeted
The Free Speech Union
 @SpeechUnion
Nov 7
Former footballer Joey Barton found guilty of six counts of sending “grossly offensive” social media posts. This sets a dangerous precedent. Being ‘offensive’ is not a crime. Making a joke is not illegal. This is the UK, not North Korea.
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Good to see media elites waking up to the shocking state of UK speech laws. Better late than never.
(((Dan Hodges)))
 @DPJHodges
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If this report is accurate in relation to the Barton case then then law - in whatever form its drafted - needs to be repealed or rewritten. It is quite clearly ridiculous that people are being convicted of offences for expressing opinions like this. However much people may disagree with them.
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let’s hope
Thomas Wolf
 @Thom_Wolf
Nov 6
Is this another DeepSeek moment? Open-source passing closed-source again Should we expect this every couple months now?
This is literally the best book list that rewires your brain for success
Hayes
 @neatprompts
Nov 5
This is literally the best book list that rewires your brain for success
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Election Maps UK
 @ElectionMapsUK
Nov 6
Westminster Voting Intention: RFM: 33% (+1) GRN: 18% (+1) CON: 16% (=) LAB: 15% (-1) LDM: 11% (-1) SNP: 3% (=) Via @FindoutnowUK, 5-6 Nov. Changes w/ 29 Oct.
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The author of my paper (me) says people aren’t citing it enough.
Joe Weisenthal
 @TheStalwart
Nov 5
The CFO of OpenAI says people aren't exuberant enough about AI bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
I'm designing my own Wordles now. The clue is: "Unsupervised group." nytimes.com/games/create/wor…
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this was actually my exact reaction after getting my APSA presentation to compile in RMarkdown
Fermat's Library
 @fermatslibrary
Nov 5
Andrew Wiles on the morning he discovered how to fix his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
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I wish it was limited to Labour backbenchers!
Andrew Neil
 @afneil
Nov 5
Since I wrote this a number of Labour MPs have taken to social media awe-struck by Mamdani’s victory and saying ‘this is how we beat Nigel Farage.’ Too true. The Red Wall is exactly like New York City. Is the average IQ on the Labour backbenches now down to double figures?
"What the Mamdani victory shows is that I was always right about everything, and that's why we must go back to serving diet coke at the faculty meetings rather than the flavored fizzy water" <-- what the median UK poster sounds like. Get ahold of yourselves.
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Nothing to see here, just a frontline UK politician congratulating the winner of a city mayoral race (who has no idea who she is, btw) in another country. US as the cultural hegemon confirmed.
Lucy Powell MP
 @LucyMPowell
Nov 5
Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani on such a clear win in New York. His victory shows that boldness and a story of economic change in the interests of the many not the few, defeats the politics of division and despair. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly4…
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We must update from n=1 cases. Only sound way to make inferences. Always saying this.
Ben Rhodes
 @brhodes
Nov 5
Mamdani shows that the future of the Democratic Party has to be about principled movement building that imagines a different future, not a stale poll-tested defense of a status quo nobody wants.
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You’re telling me the Democrat who won NJ did so with a bigger margin than the Democrat who won NYC? Surely not
Pumping up irrational fears about a religious minority? On Guy Fawkes night? Is nothing sacred?
Arthur Spirling retweeted
Tom Harwood
 @tomhfh
Nov 4
Politics UK
 @PolitlcsUK
Nov 4
🚨 NEW: Over 300 students will debate in the Commons on Thursday for this year's Youth Parliament
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I understand how it happens, and I don’t know about the merits of her complaints, but the whole idea of a “First Family” in a republic is just bad tbh.
Western Lensman
 @WesternLensman
Oct 31
Michelle Obama complains: “We didn't get the grace that I think some other (first) families have gotten."
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This is surprisingly easy advice to follow if you live in New Jersey’s 12th congressional district
Ben M. Freeman 🇮🇱
 @BenMFreeman
Oct 26
Do not vote for Zohran Mamdani.
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tapping the sign
Arthur Spirling @arthur_spirling
Feb 1
extremely niche professor post, but the NYT game “Strands” is conceptually good but very bad in practice. It’s either far too hard (words from a random Frost poem) or trivially easy (some fruits). There’s no “puzzling out” process (cf Wordle). You know it or you don’t
Just for comparison, graduate stipend at eg Princeton is $52k. Suspect PPP might even favor NJ.
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Nothing to see here: just London based big 5 accounting firms paying sub $45k salaries. All good.
Stefan Schubert
 @StefanFSchubert
Nov 3
Some UK entry-level professional service jobs are converging with the minimum wage. "A growing number of HR firms are now having to “closely monitor” salary sacrifice schemes ... from pushing staff below the legal threshold for wages per hour."
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