Rob Arthur

@rob_arthur
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Data scientist, journalist, former evolutionary biologist. Bylines: the Atlantic, VICE News, Slate, etc.
Elon literally blaming Jews for Twitter’s collapse.

The original sin of ChatGPT is that it presents itself as an intelligence, rather than a tool.

To get anything useful out of chatbots, you have to first stop treating them like a mysterious "AI" and start treating them like software. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/how-to-talk-ai-chatbot-chatgpt/

How to talk to an AI: Tips for getting the most out of chatbots like ChatGPT

The Washington Post’s guide to getting the most out of AI chatbots — from OpenAI’s ChatGPT to Google’s Bard and Microsoft’s Bing— and avoiding common pitfalls.

The Washington Post
I can't believe the Leopards Eating My Face app enabled the leopards to eat my face.
Commit to posting mostly or only positive things on your favored social media site for a while.
Saberseminar is a fantastic baseball analytics conference happening in Chicago in about a month. I'll be there and looking forward to meeting some folks. Tickets are still available here:
https://saberseminar.ticketleap.com/saberseminar-2023-early-fundraiser/
Early Fundraiser for Saberseminar 2023 - at Illinois Tech in Chicago, IL

Saberseminar is back, baby!! Sabermetrics, Scouting, and the Science of Baseball is the premier baseball analytics event on the east coast. We get front office insiders, scientists, scouts, and sabermetricians into the same room and have them talk about the game we love. And, it's all for a great cause: The Angioma Alliance. There was a time when Saberseminar filled half of a small lecture hall at Harvard. Since then, it's grown into a much larger event that has attracted General Managers, ex-Players, nationally recognized experts in sports medicine, and top baseball analysts.Although it has grown substantially, Saberseminar is a small organization that depends on your support to continue.Every year, we ask people in our survey: was Saberseminar priced correctly or not? The majority of people indicate that compared to other baseball analytics events, it's too cheap. That is, for the cost of the ticket, they feel that they get enormous value.This is a chance for those people to directly contribute to helping the event. If you've come to Saberseminar in the past and had a good time, give us a hand and help us plan. Even $10 or $20 can go a long way to supporting us.

Ticketleap
The Supreme Court decided that race should influence college admissions up until a student's application actually arrives at the university.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/29/supreme-court-race-jackson-sotomayor/
The Supreme Court sides with invisible racial determination

Race constantly affects who can attend college. The Supreme Court, aligning with the broader right, determined that it prefers that it happen out of the open.

The Washington Post
@pluralistic "We have an army ready to fight the class war led by generals who have been trained to assume that it is unwinnable." 🔥
Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court. "Republican megadonor Paul Singer's hedge fund has repeatedly had business before the Supreme Court. Alito has never recused himself." https://www.propublica.org/article/samuel-alito-luxury-fishing-trip-paul-singer-scotus-supreme-court
Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court

In the years after the undisclosed trip to Alaska, Republican megadonor Paul Singer’s hedge fund has repeatedly had business before the Supreme Court. Alito has never recused himself.

ProPublica

Saberseminar scholarship applications are due MONDAY June 5th! #baseball #SportsAnalytics #DataScience

Scholarships | Sabermetrics Scouting and the Science of Baseball http://www.saberseminar.com/scholarships/

Scholarships

Scholarships for Sabermetrics, Scouting, and the Science of Baseball 2023 We are pleased to announce the Sabermetrics, Scouting, and the Science of Baseball Seminar will be offering at least two cu…

Sabermetrics Scouting and the Science of Baseball - Summer, 2019

The fact that modern AI is basically “show the computer a bunch of examples then it learns to do similar things” means it will be inherently biased because many fields don’t have unbiased data.

This is the fundamental flaw of how the field has marketed itself. AIs inherit the flaws of their training data but with a veneer of objectivity because it’s branded artificial intelligence.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/may/22/there-was-all-sorts-of-toxic-behaviour-timnit-gebru-on-her-sacking-by-google-ais-dangers-and-big-techs-biases

‘There was all sorts of toxic behaviour’: Timnit Gebru on her sacking by Google, AI’s dangers and big tech’s biases

The Ethiopian-born computer scientist lost her job after pointing out the inequalities built into AI. But after decades working with technology companies, she knows all too much about discrimination

The Guardian