18 corrections in a 659-word AI-written Men's Journal article about low testosterone. AI language tools generate cogent word patterns, not facts - an obvious issue that so many companies are going to embarrass themselves learning in the coming years

https://futurism.com/neoscope/magazine-mens-journal-errors-ai-health-article

New to mastodon. Here's a video in which I showcase the changing sound of English from the 8th century to the 19th, from Beowulf to Ben Franklin's Fart Joke and John Keats

I tend to make a lot of content like this as a hobby.

Also I post about various weird questions in linguistics.

Also I translate poetry, like a lot.

@linguistics

In our lab meeting, we discussed an interesting paper on #theory testing and effect sizes:

When the numbers do not add up: The practical limits of stochastologicals for soft psychology (Broers, 2021) https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691620970557

"The key question must be how a scientific discipline that rests on purely verbal theories succeeds in inserting quantity into its thinking. The important follow-up question must be what meaning, if any, do such quantities have at the theoretical level of psychology."

For the past few weeks I've been working on building a service that connects online experiments to the OSF, so that data are automatically sent to the OSF and you don't need a server to run experiments.

It's almost ready, and I'm looking for a few people who would be willing to try it out for real and provide feedback. Volunteers must be willing to tolerate bugs and such. If this goes smoothly then it should be ready for a wider launch in January.

If you're interested get in touch!

#jsPsych