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WtfJul 28, 2023
@kjhealy I thought this was no big deal until I listened to this Planet Money episode that came out today: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/27/1190568472/dan-ariely-francesca-gino-harvard-dishonesty-fabricated-data
They have a letter from The Hartford about the insurance data used in one study that is pretty damning.
I imagine you must be pretty pissed off about all of this.
Show threadWtfJul 28, 2023
@futurebird @aptshadow this sounds like something I'd read in one of your books
Show threadWtfJul 26, 2023
@stuart @clacksee well she is an "Equine Adventurer"
Show threadWtfJul 26, 2023
@davidallengreen Wow, that is nicely written.
Show threadWtfJul 26, 2023
@timnitGebru I scanned his dissertation couldn't get into all of it b/c I'm not a CS. It did give me the vibe that he took a bunch of ML reliability work he'd done and decided to wrap a few pages of discussion of ethics around it to give it a theme.
Maybe I don't get how CS PhD programs work, but l would think he would have at least defined machine learning and not just started using the initialism AI in the middle of the paper with no introduction. https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2022/EECS-2022-133.pdf
Show threadWtfJul 26, 2023
@kevinrothrock I know some place where we could mark it down: https://elonmusk.today/
Elon Musk Today

WtfJul 4, 2023
Tom LevensonJul 3, 2023

Inevitable soundtrack for this:

https://xkcd.com/2790/

would have to be this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXoxH8HI7z8&t=3s

Heat Pump

xkcd
WtfFeb 16, 2023
Assoc for Scottish LiteratureFeb 16, 2023

Iain M. Banks (1954–2013) was born #OTD, 16 Feb—a🎂🧵
1/7

“Iain Banks… is a novelist who has his own ‘double’, an author for whom the idea of a split writing persona is emphatically not out of place”

—“Reading Double, Writing Double: The Fiction of Iain (M) Banks” – a 2010 article on Banks’s genre-busting career:
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2010/11/reading-double-writing-double-the-fiction-of-iain-m-banks/

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#Scottish #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture

Reading Double, Writing Double: The Fiction of Iain (M.) Banks - The Bottle Imp

Iain Banks’ writing can be located within a context of contemporary British fiction, namely the period after 1970. The rationale for the provision of a context wider than Scottish fiction is determined by Banks who, as Thom Nairn explains, has ‘expressed doubts about the place he may or may not occupy in a specifically Scottish […]

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Show threadWtfFeb 8, 2023
@itamarst Not just any old batteries, LEAD ACID batteries. JFC
Show threadWtfFeb 8, 2023
@aptshadow I first read this as Neocon kill team