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Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary Excess words track LLM usage in biomedical publications.

How widespread is such LLM usage in the academic literature?
🆘 This excess word analysis suggests that at least 13.5% of 2024 abstracts were processed with LLMs. This lower bound differed across disciplines, countries, and journals, reaching 40% for some subcorpora.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before"

<- this open letter should be read by everyone in #HigherEd

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Simplifying Causality: A Brief Review of Philosophical Views and Definitions with Examples from Economics, Education, Engineering, Medicine, Policy, and Physics dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sh...

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Awarded for Discovery of MicroRNA Gene Regulation The award was given to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for a discovery of an important gene-manipulating mechanism in cells

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Awarded for Discovery of MicroRNA Gene Regulation

The award was given to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for a discovery of an important gene-manipulating mechanism in cells

www.scientificamerican.com/article/nobe...

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #260,699!

The untold story of how Nigeria’s mpox outbreak sparked a worldwide epidemic The virus circulated for 8 years before going global. Could it have been stopped?

Mpox circulated in Nigeria for 8 years before it sparked a global outbreak. What happened? And could it have been stopped?

www.science.org/content/arti...

Congrats and Thanks @pwgtennant.bsky.social

Screenshot of abstract for the new paper.

'Depicting deterministic variables within directed acyclic graphs (DAGs): An aid for identifying & interpreting causal effects involving derived variables and compositional data'

Thrilled this has been published in @amjepi.bsky.social! Pls share!

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#EpiSky

Causal Inference and Effects of Interventions From Observational Studies in Medical Journals This study examines drawing causal inferences about the effects of interventions from observational studies in medical journals.

"Proposed framework to identify when causal interpretation is appropriate in observational studies"

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Excited to see some more activity in #causalinference #episky

Observational studies: practical tips for avoiding common statistical pitfalls

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story They met by chance, got hooked on an idea, and wrote the “Transformers” paper—the most consequential tech breakthrough in recent history.

Loved this fascinating story about the people behind 'the transformer paper' by Stephen Levy
Story: www.wired.com/story/eight-...
Transformer paper: proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/...

Are Evidence-Based Medicine and Public Health Incompatible? A particular rigor in evidence isn’t always practical in informing public health decisions, some experts say.

Are Evidence-Based Medicine and Public Health Incompatible? undark.org/2024/02/21/e...

I am interested and already use parts from your book. Pls do share those teaching materials. Thanks

Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows exactly why. And that's a problem. Figuring it out is one of the biggest scientific puzzles of our time and a crucial step towards controlling more powerful future models.

Figuring out how LLMs work is one of the biggest scientific puzzles of our time and a crucial step towards controlling more powerful future models.

www.technologyreview.com/2024/03/04/1...

Old age dependency ratio - Top 10 economies

A primer on the Estimands framework

The roles, challenges, and merits of the P-value
- comprehensive inquiry into the foundations, merits, and challenges of hypothesis testing and the p-value: why they are useful and when negligence may occur
Link : www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

🔥 Exciting news about my book #CausalAnalysis! A free online version is now available, many thanks to MIT press for making this possible! Here's the link to the open access version: mitpress.ublish.com/ebook/causal...

"Causal inference is a trivial problem if you know the DAG. Research design is outdated."

season's greetings!

The history of the pivot table, the spreadsheet’s most powerful tool

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Has your research influenced policy? Use this free tool to check Sage Policy Profiles scans a database of 10 million documents to show researchers where their papers have been cited. Sage Policy Profiles scans a database of 10 million documents to show researchers ...

Has your research influenced policy? Use this free tool to check
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How Artificial Intelligence Can Personalize Education Instructors can leverage AI to help students learn better

How Artificial Intelligence Can Personalize Education
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AI and the Rise of Mediocrity 'AI thrives when our need for originality is low and our demand for mediocrity is high,' writes Ray Nayler.

AI and the Rise of Mediocrity
time.com/6337835/ai-m...

Kinda funny that typos in a student's paper are now a *positive* signal of effort, since it means they probably didn't get an ai to write it.

The Shocking Drama at OpenAI Isn’t As Stupid As It Looks It’s the first skirmish in a war.

EA OR E/ACC?!

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How a Weight-Loss Trend on TikTok Might Encourage Eating Disorders Laxative misuse is cropping up in wellness and weight-loss social media communities&mdash;and some experts are concerned about its close ties to eating disorders

Laxative misuse is cropping up in wellness and weight-loss social media communities—and experts are concerned about its close ties to eating disorders

www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

The Fall of Babylon Is a Warning for AI Unicorns When it went public in 2021, Babylon Health was valued at over $4 billion. Now it has declared bankruptcy. Insiders say it could never live up to its hype.

The Fall of Babylon Is a Warning for AI Unicorns www.wired.com/story/babylo...

APPRAISE-AI Tool to Quantitatively Evaluate AI Studies for Clinical Decision Support This quality improvement study evaluates the methodological and reporting quality of artificial intelligence (AI) models for clinical decision support.

APPRAISE-AI Tool for Quantitative Evaluation of AI Studies for Clinical Decision Support

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.35377

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

Causal Inference Challenges and New Directions for Epidemiologic Research on the Health Effects of S... Purposeof Review Epidemiologic research on the health effects of social policies is growing rapidly because of the potentially large impact of these policies on population health and health equity. We...

Causal Inference Challenges and New Directions for Epidemiologic Research on the Health Effects of Social Policies
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