| github | https://github.com/cecileane |
| web | https://pages.stat.wisc.edu/~ane/index.html |
| pronouns | she/elle |
There were once four scientists who decided to take a systematic approach to honing one of working life’s great skills: the art of saying no.
With workloads heading to burnout levels of busyness, they agreed that in the space of one year, they would collectively turn down 100 work-related requests and track what happened as a result.
[…]
One of their discoveries has stuck with me since: they had no regrets about saying no.
https://archive.is/6crr8 (FT article)
“Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said - ABC News”
No shit “this decline [in the capability of LLMs to perform logical reasoning through multiple clauses] is due to the fact that current LLMs are not capable of genuine logical reasoning; instead, they attempt to replicate the reasoning steps observed in their training data.”
Paper from Apple engineers showing that genAI models don’t actually understand what they read but just regurgitate what they’ve seen like a puppy wanting to please its owner:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05229
Statistical genetics and phylogenetics have different methods of finding associations with phenotypes while controlling for ancestry. This paper shows that the standard approaches in these fields are actually special cases of the same general approach, enabling more integrative future studies.
Entomological Soc. of America
Kamala Harris News Group 2.0
Adrien Barbaresi
Dieter Komendera
Baldur Bjarnason
Prof. Catherine Flick
Stephan Schiffels
PLOS Biology
Elia Ayoub (he/him)
Tim Mak