Selcan Mutgan

@selcan
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Postdoc at the Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping University, Sweden
| Micro-macro dynamics of segregation
phonetic notation of my nameSældʒan
Websitehttps://www.selcanmutgan.com/

📢 The spring program for the IAS Seminar Series is now out, and it is on 🔥. We welcome everyone to join our meetings on Zoom or in Norrköping.

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📢 IAS@LiU is looking for one or two postdocs (two-year) on using machine learning and causal inference to evaluate the impact of local development programs in Africa as part of the Observatory of Poverty project.

Deadline: 9th of March 2023

Details here: https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/20873

20873

📢 IAS@LiU is looking for one or two postdocs (two-year) on using machine learning and causal inference to evaluate the impact of local development programs in Africa as part of the Observatory of Poverty project.

Deadline: 9th of March 2023

Details here: https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/20873

20873

Why do so many people get Monty Hall problem (also known the three doors problem) wrong? Steven Tijms explores both the math and the psychology in this illuminating article: https://chance.amstat.org/2022/11/monty-hall
Monty Hall and the ‘Leibniz Illusion’ | CHANCE

Steven Tijms Seeing Is Believing Throughout the history of mathematics, quite a few mathematical problems have achieved celebrity status outside the circle of mathematicians. Famous problems such as squaring the circle or proving Fermat’s last theorem have intrigued thousands of people over the centuries. But almost no mathematical problem has been as fiercely and widely […]

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Less brief: this critique of the “cult of novelty” strikes me as very apt and important:

“it puts pressure on scholars to misrepresent their work. This isn’t only a matter of creating incentives on academics to “inflate their claims in order to emphasize their novelty.” It also encourages them to misrepresent other scholarship by downplaying, effacing, or simply ignoring how much it overlaps their own.”

#Academics on Mastodon, by #discipline. Curated Accounts Lists; Groups; #preprints #Bibliography #Bots; #servers and #communities... a webpage by @hendrikerz and contributors... Thanks to all of them for this wonderful ressource tool!

https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon

GitHub - nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon: A list of various lists consisting of academics on Mastodon

A list of various lists consisting of academics on Mastodon - nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon

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How does modern AI work, what is its history, and how does it compare with human intelligence? My book gives an in-depth, accessible guide for lay people & experts alike.

Coming in 2023: new chapters on transformers, generative AI, and AI "alignment". (Not a new edition but I will likely just put new chapters on my website. Stay tuned!)

https://melaniemitchell.me/aibook/

CNBC: abortion laws are affecting students' decisions about where to attend college.

Not mentioned: if access to reproductive health care is important to enough students' decisions, Dobbs (and states' responses to it) will exacerbate existing "red" vs. "blue" state disparities in university-level resources, hasten the demise of the colleges and universities in anti-choice states that are already struggling to meet enrollment targets.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/19/gen-z-on-new-college-and-career-plans-in-post-roe-america.html

Gen Z is re-thinking college and career plans in post-Roe America: ‘I want to leave the country’

Nearly 40 percent of students say the overturning of Roe will affect their decision to attend a university in some states, according to a BestColleges survey.

CNBC