Hacker News with Generative AI: Stanford University

Stanford students want in on the military tech gold rush (sfstandard.com)
A military tech gold rush has changed hearts and minds on campus.
Stanford students used to chase jobs at Meta and Google. Now work on war (sfstandard.com)
A military tech gold rush has changed hearts and minds on campus.
Should Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment Be Retracted? (retractionwatch.com)
Philip G. Zimbardo passed away in October 2024 at age 91. He enjoyed an illustrious career at Stanford University, where he taught for 50 years. He accrued a long list of accolades, but his singular and enduring contribution to scholarship was the Stanford Prison Experiment, a simulation carried out in the university’s psychology department in August 1971. The research project became the best-known psychological analysis of institutionalization at the time.
Update on Staff Hiring (news.stanford.edu)
When Professor Bryant Lin got cancer, he taught a class about it (nytimes.com)
Dr. Bryant Lin, who teaches medicine at Stanford University, was given a terminal diagnosis. He wanted his students to understand the humanity at the core of medicine.
Stanford misinformation expert admits to ChatGPT 'hallucinations' in court (stanforddaily.com)
Communication Professor Jeff Hancock admitted to overlooking “hallucinated citations” in a court declaration he crafted with assistance from ChatGPT.
Philip Zimbardo, psychologist behind the 'Stanford Prison Experiment' dies at 91 (news.stanford.edu)
Philip G. Zimbardo, one of the world’s most renowned psychologists, died Oct. 14 in his home in San Francisco. He was 91.
'Stanford Prison Experiment' Psychologist Zimbardo Dies at 91 – AP News (apnews.com)
Stanford psychologist behind the controversial “Stanford Prison Experiment” dies at 91
LaTeX Style Guide for EE 364B [pdf] (2014) (web.stanford.edu)
Ketogenic Diet Shows Promise Treating Serious Mental Illness in Stanford Study (metabolicmind.org)
Stanford Reverses Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer's with Brain Metabolism Drug (scitechdaily.com)
Eric Schmidt Stanford AI talk – 2024 [video] (youtube.com)
Keeping Secrets (2014) (stanfordmag.org)
Join Super AI Agent Hackathon at Stanford, Hosted by HuggingFace and Nexa AI (twitter.com)
Stanford student collects her Master's degree at the age of 105 (ed.stanford.edu)
The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled (platformer.news)
Stanford will once again require standardized tests for undergraduate admission (sfchronicle.com)
'Rethink the entire AI stack from electrons to algorithms', says Stanford prof (theregister.com)
Donald E. Knuth's Homepage (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
The Stanford Startup and the MIT Startup (2013) (blogspot.com)