Before: Claude feeds human ADHD. Now: Claude gets ADHD... "You're right — I got pulled into the distractor-similarity bug report and never actually shipped the color feature, I only did the palette research. Let me finish it now." (after I told it that it didn't finish what I asked for)

Claude/Cursor/whatever for the win when you want to demo something to a student but the applet/website doesn't work any more. Today's demo: stochastic resonance (cond.org/stochres/)

if elections only reported the results once all the counts were in, what would the "elections are rigged" people complain about next?

Maybe obvious, but working theory: The number of times a paper has been rejected is ~the difference between the latest model version and the llm model used in the paper

crazy idea of the day: treat LLM computes like a resource (e.g., gas) and tax their use.

How many homepages that were never ever going to change are now updated thanks to vibe coding? ✋

Almost a year to the day since I last posted this. An admonishment by Mao's government to the China's statisticians on the need for "statistics with particular Party character." (Chinese newspaper in '61)

southpaw@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The gallup presidential approval poll is an institution in American politics that predates world war 2. With Trump’s approval in the 30s, they’re ending it. thehill.com/homenews/med...

The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE! openvisualizationacademy.org Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization

Can someone explain to me the objections to the arxiv survey paper thing? I get that it might be a biased, and maybe not grounded in data, but what's the actual/perceived benefit for posting on arxiv vs... I don't know... anywhere else? Is it citations? visibility? genuinely curious...

Coining a new phrase: "Great Pacific Paper Patch." Definition: The growing collection of rejected papers floating from conference to conference and clogging up the knowledge ocean. :)

When reacting to some kind of new (manufactured) scandal every day, the press forgets they can come back the next day and say: you didn't know about it yesterday, but you've had a day to think about this, what's your reaction?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo ago

Q: What's your reaction to yesterday's purge of senior ICE officials? When is it time for Congress to do some oversight? MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know any of the details of that yet. I just heard about that, literally I was walking in.

Fun paper from a recent project with UMich alumni Tenghao Ji. Can we pick better images for Wikipedia articles? Given all the choices in the Wikipedia Commons, which image is best as an "instructional aid?" (1/5)

John Derby Evans Professorship in Information (Assistant or Associate Professor) at UMSI. Apps due Nov 1. www.si.umich.edu/people/facul...

We need something more technical sounding than "co-evolution" to describe this... RHLAF: reinforcing human learning through AI feedback? HAAF: human adaptation through AI feedback? :)

mr. TIM@timkellogg.me · 12mo ago

As LLMs Improve, People Adapt Their Prompts a study shows that a lot of the real world performance gains that people see are actually because people learn how to use the model better arxiv.org/abs/2407.14333

I'm very curious... Are cheese curlers often used in the bathtub? Was the art director like, "how do I show that our cheese curler is rust proof?"

If you depend on EMNLP/ARR for your publishing or for hiring/promotion, I feel bad for you.

I'm not sure who recommended it to me, but let me pass it on since it was a fun read: "Get the Picture" by Bianca Bosker

Who knew... Claude can be funny... ;) Real researchers don't use LLMs: claude.ai/share/91111e...

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Eytan Adar@eytan.adar.prof · last yr.

Taken to the extreme this starts to sound like real programmers don't eat quiche (www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/RPDEQ.html). Real researchers don't use LLMs. Real researchers don't use search engines. Real researchers don't use anything other than articles faxed to them from the author.

Decision-making studies appear in HCI, vis, & increasingly AI/ML, but how “good decision” is defined is often ad-hoc My #CHI2025 talk today will answer Qs like: What's a decision problem? What's the best possible performance on a decision problem? What minimum info must participants be given? 1/2

I occasionally watch this couple doing a massive rebuild on their house. It's interesting how much they use/trust ChatGPT: youtu.be/KEgQO6ynJWE?.... Guess this is the new post-search world, but I'm waiting for the episode where they figure out it gave them bad advice on something critical.

they messed up our windows and.. just watch the ending (ep. 60)

YouTube video by Jenna Phipps

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Worth the occasional repost given today's world

Eytan Adar@eytan.adar.prof · 4y ago

On the politics of stats/vis. Advice to "statistical workers" from an editorial in a Chinese newspaper from 1961:

We need to stop talking about indirects as: oh, I need $100k for research, but we charge the government $155k so I can give $55k to my institution for whatever. 1/2

The new administration is just crazy. What other organization achieves the same policy effect no matter who gets hired? They can bring in the super strategic or super incompetent and the results (at least short term) are the same.

Well, at least I'll have finished one book in 2025. Recommended if you like board games and/or artifacts of social life. www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...

The Game Changers: How Playing Games Changed the World …

Why is playing games a universal human instinct?Why did…

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Consider a fictional graduate student brain N, and a scientist Q who wishes to use N in their research pipeline (e.g. for analysis and/or interpretation). Functionally, N is not fully understood by Q. Is it acceptable to use N? To be clear, there's a difference, but not sure it's "understanding."

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 2y ago

Scientific Integrity Question Consider a fictional AI system M, and a scientist S who wishes to use M in their research pipeline (e.g., for analysis and/or interpretation). Functionally, M is not fully understood by S. In your opinion, is it acceptable that S uses M in their research pipeline?

Google easter egg made me think I was having a vertigo episode. Very tipsy. Very funny.

📢📢I'm recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025 to join my research lab at the University of Michigan! Interested in doing research in social computing systems? Consider applying! 📢📢 Application deadline: Dec 15 cse.engin.umich.edu/academics/gr...

If you like Wordle, let me recommend Typeset (dvc.games/products/typ...). You can try the digital variant here: mxjasperbeatrix.itch.io/typeset but I like the physical version (easier to play with others).

TYPESET

TYPESET is a love letter to the creativity and fluidity of words, as well as printmaking and typesetting tradition. Simply put: Place letters in order from left to right, using vowels as needed, to tr...

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FWIW, blueark.app worked well. $5 to copy my tweet history over. Not sure *my* tweets were worth that... But that's not their fault.

Happy Stress Day to all those who celebrate!