I haven't read the book or seen the movie, so this reference is lost of me. To Gemini of an explanation! :-p
04.03.2026 01:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I haven't read the book or seen the movie, so this reference is lost of me. To Gemini of an explanation! :-p
04.03.2026 01:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If anything I underestimate what they can do because I am cheap and refuse to pay for premium subscriptions
04.03.2026 00:57 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Either way, I still think what they can do is impressive, even if I think it premature to be declaring consequences like "the end of [X]"
04.03.2026 00:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Part of that investment may reflect the culture of AI companies, and part of it may reflect that these areas are places where it's easier to verify outputs, and part of it may be that's where the demand for them is. I'm very curious to see how they perform once we get outside that domain.
04.03.2026 00:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Interesting.
I am still relatively agnostic as to LLMs, Agents, and their abilities, and how I see them affecting different areas. This gives me something else to think about.
So far, the strongest "effect" of LLMs seems to be a compulsion to see this technology outside of history, and attributing pathologies to them that predate them. It's a bad way of thinking about this or any technology.
03.03.2026 23:04 β π 27 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0So it's nice to see a takes that come at it from different angles (apprenticeship and the normative role of professors)
03.03.2026 23:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
It's interesting to see some of the takes on the article (yes, I succumbed to the bait)
In rough order:
1) AI doesn't do as good of job as humans
2) if you use AI, did you actually do the work?
3) AI is excellent and can replace [X] of the workflow
4) the publication system/science is doomed
Agreed. Maybes "advances" was not the right word. "Moves," maybe?
03.03.2026 20:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0...the problem is in dealing with the quantity of output that advances knowledge little or not at all.
03.03.2026 20:39 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I disagree slightly here, in that I see science qua knowledge production as following a power law. Most of the time knowledge is advanced little or not at all, but some advances are massive. More knowledge production = more advancement (eventually)...
03.03.2026 20:37 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Hey #stats folk, I'm looking for some great (but concise) YouTube vids about likelihood functions & estimation (MLE, properties, Fisher information, std errs).
These would serve students taking my Bayesian course that didn't take the preceding likelihood course (that is taught by someone else).
Yes, I succumbed to the bait.
03.03.2026 20:27 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0π€
03.03.2026 20:27 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Interesting and useful perspective
03.03.2026 20:22 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
But see for an alternstive:
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In Canada 5 year terms are the most popular by far
03.03.2026 15:42 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
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03.03.2026 15:12 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Yes but
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03.03.2026 14:43 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
The Templin lectures are a nice intro to both Bayesian stats and psychometrics.
FWIW he (like me) doesn't like EFA.
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He also has a nice course on multidimensional measurement models:
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This is a nice collection of lectures on Bayesian psychometrics by Jonathan Templin
03.03.2026 14:29 β π 10 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0One question in the poll, for example, asked our sample of 1,035 adults whether they supported βan amnesty program that would grant legal status to people who entered the country illegally.β The second asked about βproviding a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who have resided in the United States for at least ten years, paid taxes, and passed a background check.β
Some of these questions aren't contradictory. Eg:
03.03.2026 14:14 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 2