Joe @twitskeptic@qoto.org
Unprofessional data wrangler and Mastodon’s official fact checker. Older and crankier than you are.
Joined Nov 2022
Joe
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It's not just the engagement-maximizing algorithms....
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I wrote a thread over at post.news with this title, describing a new preprint about the sources of online toxicity. For those who want to read the formatted version there, here's the link: https://post.news/article/2KwklDyJQ7mRkNlrvRdeUh70Ej2
For those who want to read it here, I'll recreate it below.
Interesting idea for detecting generative AI content (ChatGPT) by generating multiple rephrases.
Only works, though, if you have access to the original model.
https://twitter.com/_eric_mitchell_/status/1618820358043475969?s=20
@ct_bergstrom FWIW, here's the naming rationale from this private equity owned company (where 90% of the top executives are men and 100% are white).
https://www.panopto.com/blog/hi-my-name-is-panopto/
US politics
@JamesGleick Yet another data point demonstrating that the US healthcare system is broken.
@qpmnguyen @statsepi Each participant should also get an NFT to add to the "trust".
@ct_bergstrom Strange that she left off the last zero in all those listings.
@ct_bergstrom Thanks, Carl. Really needed a laugh today and you delivered. Don't even want to know how you found this site.
@merz Picometers are your friends. To hell with tradition.
@ct_bergstrom Are you familiar with this alternative index ("CD-index") that's referenced in this Nature paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05543-x ?
@nailbomb3 Seems likes Offit is on TWiV every other week now. Would be nice if they occasionally had someone else from VRBPAC on the show.
@ct_bergstrom And it's actually warmer in Sitka today then Seattle. Break out the flip flops.
@ct_bergstrom Just checked out of curiosity - water temp today in Sitka is 43°F vs 47° in Seattle so not as big a difference as I would have guessed. But still WAY too cold for me!
@ct_bergstrom Let's not forget the 10% cut that Substack takes from all of this grifting as well. Wapo had an article on this ethically questionable practice last year. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/01/27/substack-misinformation-anti-vaccine/
And shocking to find out that one of the lead investors is ... Andreessen Horowitz! Almost guaranteed that Marc Andreesen has his fingers in a tech company if it has sketchy ethics.
@timbray Just perfect. What a moment in jazz history!
Joe
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If The Last of Us is making you curious about the real Cordyceps… https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/science/ant-zombies-fungus.html
@ct_bergstrom Not relevant to your main point, but serially participating in large consortium projects (human genome, 1000 genomes, T2T) is a great way to inflate your h-index.
15 very highly cited papers over 20 years that significantly change your specialty? Not so much.
Extremely racist ideas and language from a prominent philosopher
He repudiated the way he framed his views but not the actual views.
First he tap danced around the main and repugnant idea that Black people are inherently less intelligent than white people ("it's not my area of expertise and and I'm not interested") and then attempted to distract by wandering off into a topic (eugenics) which wasn't referenced in the original offensive context.
But he gave to a lot of charities, so I guess that makes up for it.
Unprofessional data wrangler and Mastodon’s official fact checker. Older and crankier than you are.
Joined Nov 2022
