As someone with a stats/social science background, I will give the machine learning folks credit when it comes to naming things. "One Hot Encoding" is WAY cooler than "dummy coding".
Garett Foster
@wordsofgarett.bsky.social
Former professor turned data scientist Psych PhD studying comp sci He/They
I am so tired of emails asking for things that were clearly written by AI. If you couldn't be bothered to articulate your own request and why it is important/helpful/valid, why on Earth would I say yes to it?
The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia — the oldest natural history museum in the U.S. — has closed its doors after nearly 200 years 6abc.com/post/philade...
Wild that they didn't catch autocorrect changing "reality" into "resistance".
James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · 2d agoActual headline in today's WaPo.
Your taxpayer dollars are being illegally spent to air a literal Trump 2024 campaign ad.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoabsolutely demented. like a scene from a horror movie
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoAssistant AG for Fraud Colin McDonald: "Apparently 35% of people have never even used their Obamacare account for any health services. That is a statistical impossibility and it's because these are not real people seeking real care. These are fraudsters."
A longish post which goes beyond the description of the heroic pause. This message is my takeaway
Ed Maibach@maibached.bsky.social · 4d agoHappy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social
The Supreme Court on Friday turned away an attempt to use a new Missouri congressional map backed by President Donald Trump, putting an end to a long-running legal dispute as absentee voting is underway in the midterm elections. https://to.pbs.org/4AAerjP
Supreme Court rejects Trump-backed Missouri congressional map for third time
The justices halted a federal appeals court ruling that would have revived the Republican-friendly map for the November elections, which will determine control of Congress. There were no noted dissent...
pbs.org
Bringing a beverage to every job interview I do from now on as a new litmus test for whether my potential manager will be a smarmy prick.
Kai Ryssdal@kairyssdal.bsky.social · 5d agoI’m sorry, but if you bring an iced coffee - or any damn beverage at all - to a job interview, you’re disqualified. It’s not hard, people.
an ai system doesn't have a will, intention or feelings. nor the capacity to want or care. a neural network does not go rogue, escape, or rebel. just tech bros' narratives projected onto machines. and pls, don't mansplain my post to me
A St. Louis scientist has spent her career studying sound and is now speaking out about the noise pollution that data centers could bring to the region.
How data center noise is different from regular noise pollution, according to a St. Louis scientist
A St. Louis scientist has spent her career studying sound and is now speaking out about the noise pollution that data centers could bring to the region.
stlpr.org
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
apnews.com
Ok, this "there are two separate brains" thing appears to be making the rounds, and I want to be absolutely clear: this is a press office overhyping some perfectly reasonable science that won't come as a surprise to most developmental biologists.
Gabatha@gabatha.bsky.social · last wk.So we are a two-brained species after all... Interesting. #urantia #UrantiaBook www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
“GLP-1s aren’t a moral failing; they are a health tool. For many of us, they are the catalyst that make diet and exercise more likely to succeed.” Governor of Illinois JB Pritzker shares his story of how he lost 80 pounds with the help of weight-loss drugs jbpritzker.substack.com/p/yes-im-on...
Yes, I’m on it. GLP-1s Are Making People Healthier — Including Me.
It may surprise some people, but I have always paid attention to my health despite being overweight for most of my life.
jbpritzker.substack.com
"AI responses are for educational purposes only and may not always be accurate"... surely it doesn't matter if it is misleading/inaccurate if the purpose is education @wileyonlinelibrary.bsky.social, do you see the absurdity of your logic
Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · last wk.i hate it @wileyonlinelibrary.bsky.social, please kill this
Please, I am begging you. Do not use dplyr::ntile() in any serious statistical analysis in which you want to group continuous observation into quantile-based bins. Despite the name it doesn't actually do that, and the thing it actually does is very dangerous when accuracy matter. #rstats
The trouble with ‘ntile()’ – Notes from a data witch
Please, please, please do not use ‘dplyr::ntile()’ in an analysis that will be submitted to a regulatory agency. It’s secretly an ill-conceived SQL tool that doesn’t do what you probably want it to, a...
blog.djnavarro.net
This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
opb.org
When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.
Tech dudes think AI killing humanity is an alignment problem. Having endured their company, I can promise you it’s a sampling problem.
