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Biostatistician in drug development - quite Bayesian. I do dose finding, machine learning, deep learning and chess. Our geese let me share their garden. @BjornHolzhauer on Twitter (he/him)
@niranjanajit typically the last mentioned one. This leads to all sorts of mistakes/confusions when people overlook that two things have the same gender like:"I was parking the truck in front of the fence while my friend gave me instructions. I ran him over, he is broken and I was able to temporarily prop him back up." (the fence in "der Zaun" = male in German)
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“93% of authors indicating their data is available upon request do not respond or refuse to share their data. https://t.co/eVQCGhRlgN”

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This paper very much matches my personal experience. I'm personally still at 0% for obtaining data that "are available upon (reasonable) request". Of course, then there's the all data are directly displayed on the tables/figures, when they are clearly not...
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2022.05.019

Reading "Beyond Measure: the Hidden History of Measurement" and it's really interesting how old ploughing units like the German Tagwerk (& maybe originally the acre?) included information on how hard the land was to plow, so didn't actually translate straight to hectares.

Modern me: this is super annoying.

Me as German peasant farmer: no this makes perfect sense for what I want to use it for.

projpred 2.5.0 has been released on CRAN. Most noteworthy user-facing changes are an enhanced verbose mode (extensible by a new global option, thanks to Juho Timonen), a revised "Troubleshooting" section in the main vignette, and minor enhancements in the `print.vselsummary()` output. For details, see the changelog: https://mc-stan.org/projpred/news/index.html#projpred-250
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April 1 once more drove home the difficulty of telling apart parody and over-the-top enthusiasm about AI. Watch out, unless your April fools claims that ChatGPT has achieved consciousness, that with large N you don't need randomisation or that you should bomb GPU clusters to stop AI, you run the risk that someone might take you seriously.
It’s happening. People are using GPT to review academic papers https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7046083155149103105
Robin Bauwens on LinkedIn: A reviewer rejected my paper, and instead suggested me to familiarize… | 101 comments

A reviewer rejected my paper, and instead suggested me to familiarize myself with the following readings. I could not find them anywhere. After a control in… | 101 comments on LinkedIn

Remember seeing something about GPT-4 doing well on standardized tests? It turns out it may have memorized the answers.
https://aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/gpt-4-and-professional-benchmarks
#gpt4 #AIHype #ThisIsWhyWeDontTestOnTheTrainingData
GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question

OpenAI may have tested on the training data. Besides, human benchmarks are meaningless for bots.

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"Open" AI

Wait wait wait wait

Let me get this straight...

LinkedIn wants to generate crappy AI content and then invite me to fix it, for free, under some guise of flattery calling out my "expertise"

Really?