Mike
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I spent 30 years wandering in the desert before I starting a job in academia. Now I teach psychology and neuroscience at Piedmont University. My students are eager to learn and love being challenged by new ideas. But I think they put up with me mostly because I bring my dog, Arlo, to class.
Data Science
Friends Don't Let Friends Make Bad Graphs! Do you agree with the examples of bad graphs and the alternatives Chenxin Li (@chenxinli2.bsky.social) lists at https://github.com/cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends #RStats #graphs #dataviz #help
GitHub - cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends: Friends don't let friends make certain types of data visualization - What are they and why are they bad.
Friends don't let friends make certain types of data visualization - What are they and why are they bad. - GitHub - cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends: Friends don't let friends make certain ty...
John Faithfull 🌍🇪🇺🏴🧡✊🏻✊🏿My dad gave me this wee barometer/altimeter, made about 1890. Took it out in the Mull hills yesterday - it's as accurate, and smaller, than mobile phone GPS 🤩 🥰 . The longevity and reliability of this 130-year old technology seems inconcievable today. And no spurious precision! 🤓 #InstrumentationDoneRight #Altimeter #Barometer #Mull #Antique
Heidi Li Feldman
Carl T. BergstromModern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?
Jevin West and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
https://thebullshitmachines.com
This is not a computer science course.
It’s a humanities course about how to learn and work and thrive in an AI world.
Neither instructor nor students need a technical background. Our instructor guide provides a choice of activities for each lesson that will easily fill an hour-long class.
The entire course is available freely online. Our 18 online lessons each take 5-10 minutes; each illuminates one core principle. They are suitable for self-study, but have been tailored for teaching in a flipped classroom.
The course is a sequel of sorts to our course (and book) Calling Bullshit. We hope that like its predecessor, it will be widely adopted worldwide.
Large language models are both powerful tools, and mindless—even dangerous—bullshit machines. We want students to explore how to resolve this dialectic.
Eric TopolHave a sweet tooth?
The basis may be in your gut.
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/how-our-gut-microbiome-can-drive
The basis may be in your gut.
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/how-our-gut-microbiome-can-drive
TaggartBoost if you want less generative AI in your tech in 2025.
Albert CardonaResponding to @L_andreae from another network: a good neuroscience book for a 17 year old?
I'd suggest:
1. Braitenberg's "Vehicles":
https://archive.org/details/vehiclesexperime00brai
2. Kandel's "In search of memory":
https://archive.org/details/insearchofmemory00kand
Dan Froomkin/presswatchers.orgNEW from me: What if the media has the election all wrong? https://presswatchers.org/2024/09/what-if-the-media-has-the-election-all-wrong/
Anil Dash