This is wild:
Over a third of genetics papers published in top journals in 2014-20 (including Nature, Cell, and PNAS) have errors whereby genes with names like SEPT8, DEC1, or MARCH3, were turned into dates by Excel automatically!
The issue was first noted in 2004.
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I kind of agree with you. But also hate it.
So I guess part of this conversation is, "what is my job" as a university prof? How much should I be teaching nuts and bolts and how much should be mercenary methods to get the job done?
I'd like to think so.The agents are ridiculously good, and seemingly robust.We're running into a bit of a dilemma that I've heard echoed by folks in the CS realm. Basic skills are being hollowed out because the fixed cost of bringing people up to speed is greater than the cost of producing with LLM.
Is teaching coding useful any more?
Interested in opinions on this… I’m scheduled to teach phd gis/spatial techniques in the fall. I usually split it half coding and half discussing causal methods in papers. Should I tear it down, teach how to use Claude agents, and expand the scope of the class to cover research Methods in general?
Regrettably, I lost her halfway through our discussion of climate change, science education, and the median voter theorem.
Dog is asking some very pointed questions right now about why it was 80 degrees yesterday but snowing today.
Actually, this is not false.
🔭 The Cranium Nebula from the Webb Telescope
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Processing: J. DePasquale (STScI)
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Spurs are SO bad they're making me feel bad for a Spurs player
Cool opportunity to work at the intersections of climate/environmental history and history of medicine!
History and Medicine – Associate Professor or Professor with Tenure – McMaster University
Apply by March 31st
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#envhist #histmed #climhist #cdnhist
Useful thread! COVID-19 led to the largest decline in life expectancy since WWII. Recovery is incomplete altho countries differ a lot. US had the largest life expectancy deficit of any studied. Deficits in countries that delayed widespread infection ( eg Norway Japan) had lower cumulative mortality
Two weeks until Trump claims the Iran war would never have happened if he’d been president.
This entire post is a very good read. And also depressing/disorienting. Unrelatedly, I also just ate an entire container of supermarket boneless buffalo wings.
causalinf.substack.com/p/claude-cod...
🔭 Shapley 1: An Annular Planetary Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Peter Bresseler; Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II)
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📽️ "Seven points clear - WHAT A NIGHT!" - Brighton 0-1 Arsenal | On the Whistle
youtu.be/9DRB36bqMPE
I love that the first guy Googled him and then the second guy asked his mom for advice and SHE Googled him.
Believe in your work. Stop ending papers with “More research is needed” and start concluding with “No more research on this topic is needed.”
Wow.
New vocabulary word just dropped. From the Washington post—“The storm will undergo a rapid intensification process called bombogenesis on Sunday night…”.
So, walking around my house and this sticky note was stuck on the bottom of my shoe. I think good things are happening here…
NJ lawmakers introduce the FUCK ICE Act.
The bill "permits civil action for violations of US Constitution related to immigration enforcement."
This means that Trump is giving himself as the Head of the Board of Corruption, $10 billion to spend however he wants, with no oversight from the US government and without congressional approval. It’s outright thievery.
“Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords kiki & bouba with spiky & round shapes, respectively...We tested the bouba-kiki effect in baby chickens. Similar to humans, they spontaneously chose a spiky shape when hearing a kiki sound & a round shape when hearing a bouba.”😲🧪
the only place this should happen is academic conferences
New data paper out!
