Ryan Briggs

@ryancbriggs
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Raising kids & bread & grant money. Cleaning data & diapers & fish. International development & EA. Social scientist. Working at the University of Guelph, living in Toronto.
Websitehttps://www.ryancbriggs.net/
@atpfm y’all might find it interesting that Apple is already using LLM tech in spellcheck. It’s apparently roughly GPT-2 based https://jackcook.com/2023/09/08/predictive-text.html
A look at Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text model

I found some details about Apple’s new predictive text model, coming soon in iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma.

New article in World Development Perspectives! With the amazing co-authors Tom Wein & Torben Fischer, we provide a framework for thinking about #dignity in the design, delivery, and donation-seeking for aid, as well as some initial empirical results that suggest we have much more work to do do.

https://t.co/BfGtPWb0aZ (and https://osf.io/rcwv2/)

cc @ryancbriggs

Checking out @ivory!
So the problem with improving your understanding of research methods is that you're angry all the time

So far this year under the new NAFTA:
* Canada won its case against the US on automobiles,
* won a case on solar panels,
* and lost a case that requires us to open up some of the dairy market.

So we kinda won three times.

Kids are asleep so
People are like “omg fixed effects introduces all sorts of weird weighting issues” and I’m like “may I introduce you to my old friend control variables?”

http://bit.ly/unjournal_CAP: How can we change academia's review/publication process?

Leadership, new incentives & stakeholders, offer bridging steps, quantitative benchmarks, make our output useful, use new tech, reward early adopters.

#AcademicTwitter #openscience #econtwitter

The Unjournal

Journal-independent evaluation of impactful research

I know people here don’t like quote tweets, but over on Twitter someone just got quote tweeted so hard he ended up in a Romanian jail. It’s hard to compete with that.
Good blog post (sequel to another good one) on how science should try other quality control methods than pre publication peer review. I haven't seen this on Mastodon but see it lots in my Twitter feed, so who can I follow on Mastodon to see more #metascience content like this? https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-dance-of-the-naked-emperors
The dance of the naked emperors

A followup to "The rise and fall of peer review”

Experimental History