Thom Volker
@thomvolker.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Statistics, Utrecht University Creates fake data for a living. thomvolker.github.io
Nou, alleen nog wachten tot de VVD het weer laat klappen, dan mogen we weer
Daniël Boomsma@danielboomsma.bsky.social · 2d agoHet is De Hond dus met een enorme korrel zout, maar zelfs als je er een handvol zetels naast zit is dit een diep grimmige peiling (1 augustus jl.).
Grote bek voor een land dat niet eens fatsoenlijke opvang in Ter Apel kan organiseren.
The PI presenting the paper written entirely by the rest of their research team
“As a result of today’s discussion, no UEFA national teams will participate in any FIFA competition for so long as these proposals remain alive” UEFA is taking no prisoners www.uefa.com/news-media/n...
Statement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 national associations
UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions.
uefa.com
If you thought your smoke alarm's false positives are annoying, ... HT @statsepi.bsky.social
Eiko Fried@eikofried.bsky.social · 7d agoProminent researchers in my field spent over 2 decades telling big stories about the relation between brain & mental health with very little robust data. This has led to really crazy stuff like this, impossible if we had not normalized this bizarre storytelling. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
After mocking business schools yesterday, I have to face the uncomfortable fact that researchers in my university also produce junk science. If you compare your anti-hangover drug to a placebo and you restrict the analysis to subjects who report a hangover when on the placebo, that's not good.
Every time I read these anti-AI posts that the point of education is not to produce essays, I get a little disappointed because how else am I supposed to heat the stove
This is what I imagine when people talk about projection predictive inference
Stephen Wild@stephenjwild.bsky.social · last wk.What
Not sure whether this is fellowship-worthy content
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last wk.There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.
Scoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it. Decades worth of music, lyrics, and podcasts from YouTube, Deezer, Genius & more www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
I'm a Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, writing in my personal capacity. More than 600 colleagues and I signed an open letter asking Sundar Pichai not to put our AI models on classified networks. The deal was signed anyway. I learned about it from the press.
Norm Matloff (1948-2026) @matloff.bsky.social I was made aware of the post below made by his daughter. We lost another friend and valued long-time contributor the #Rstats community, gone far too soon, and sure to be missed. His memory will be a blessing.
DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND
USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 4w agoThe White House launched 25 Freedom Fuel gas stations, all selling fuel at $3.47 a gallon.
I have just resigned from the board of "Statistics and Computing", along with 17 other Associate Editors. This was a difficult decision: this great journal has published many tremendous articles under the leadership of EiC Ajay Jasra, and before him David Hand, Gilles Celeux, and Mark Girolami.
Jared Kushner wants Albania's protected wetlands. The government obliged. Protesters said no. 29 days later, they're still saying no — with flamingo cutouts and flags, in the streets, every single night. Europe is watching. Is anyone else?
There is one thing I’d rather see than Jake Paul getting his ass whooped by Anthony Joshua
Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe center-white punditocracy spent ~2 decades sarcastically scare-quoting through takes like "Oh, sure, Oberlin students. Eeeverything's about gender and race. Eeeverything's about how white men perform their masculinity & their whiteness." Next thing you know: Pete Hegseth & UFC White House Night.
Interested in doing a PhD with me in epidemiology on causal inference and triangulation? In beautiful Rotterdam no less. www.werkenbijerasmusmc.nl/en/vacancy/1... Pro tip: if you get to the interview stage, there WILL be a question about ice hockey
Vacature: PhD student in epidemiology to develop and apply causal triangulation
Many key questions in epidemiology are fundamentally causal. Yet, we often have to rely on assumptions that cannot be directly verified to judge whether an observed association truly reflects causalit...
werkenbijerasmusmc.nl
First paper of my PhD with my amazing advisors! There’s been a ton of hype and media coverage on OpenEvidence as an “AI co-pilot for clinicians”… and our long-horizon benchmark puts them to the test!! Our results suggest they are far from reliable for downstream use.
Manoel Horta Ribeiro@manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew preprint! We introduce a new benchmark, SciConBench, with 9.11k scientific questions derived from Cochrane Systematic Reviews. We find evidence that frontier AI agents **cannot** synthesize scientific conclusions well. A thread 🧵 w/ @hayoungjung.bsky.social & others!
New preprint! We introduce a new benchmark, SciConBench, with 9.11k scientific questions derived from Cochrane Systematic Reviews. We find evidence that frontier AI agents **cannot** synthesize scientific conclusions well. A thread 🧵 w/ @hayoungjung.bsky.social & others!
arXiv📈🤖 Rank Intervals for Leaderboards: A Hierarchical Framework for Model Evaluation By Neuhof, Benjamini
I knew that quarto and revealjs slides allow you to incorporate .html webpages directly in your slides, but I did not realize that this allows you to embed interactive games directly in your slides!
I knew that quarto and revealjs slides allow you to incorporate .html webpages directly in your slides, but I did not realize that this allows you to embed interactive games directly in your slides!