Ali O. Ilhan

The Last Human Job A timely and urgent argument for preserving the work that connects us in the age of automation"A compelling case for valuing care as a societal good and as skilled labor."—The Nation

Another good book.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Bacteria to AI A new theory of mind that includes nonhuman and artificial intelligences.   The much-lauded superiority of human intelligence has not prevented us from driving the planet into ecological disaster. For...

Although I have been training, fine tuning, using, playing etc. with ML models for research since roughly 2009, my understanding of AI in general has changed tremendously in last two months. This book is one of the reasons, highly recommended. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

These are taken from his tweet, not my words.

5. o3 proves that we needed a new architecture, not just scaling old models
6. o3 still fails on some very easy tasks
7. o3 should score in an upcoming benchmark under 30% (humans 95%)
8. We don't know if these capabilities will extend to other domains

1. o3 doesn't seem to be AGI, but it represents a significant leap forward
2. It's a genuine breakthrough in adaptability and generalization
3. o3 is capable of adapting to tasks it has never encountered before
4. This generality is too expensive, and it's not economically feasible today

One of the most level-headed analysis of o3, by François Chollet exlained by Santiago Valdarrama. Btw, Chollet is the creator of Keras, and one of the most knowledge people on the planet about deep-learning. x.com/svpino/statu...

homer simpson says okay im done now in front of a house ALT: homer simpson says okay im done now in front of a house

Done with grading!

Crazy stuff

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"Here are some ways of making your study replicable. (No, the first steps are not preregistration or increasing the sample size!)"

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/06/22/h...

"I think there’s a problem with trying to fix the replication crisis using procedural reforms, by which I mean things like preregistration, p-value or Bayes-factor thresholds, and changes in the processes of scientific publication."

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/26/w...

We are hiring two non tenure-track Assistant Professor-Educators at University of Cincinnati's Industrial Design Program.
jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinna...

Ollama Get up and running with large language models.

I had no idea working with LLMs through ollama.com was that easy (I was doing it the hard way). +As you can imagine it has python integration. If you have a decent GPU you can play with the models locally or integrate them into your workflows.

A Review of The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences | The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences, Juan Pa...

I reviewed @pardoguerra.bsky.social 's excellent "The Quantified Scholar" for She Ji. It turned into a semi opinion piece about lack of evidence based discourse regarding research evaluation and its larger effects on design scholars and scholarship: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I should also get my picture taken like that :)

Free online workshop: Webscraping using R, Thursday, 30 November, 15:00–16:30 (Irish time)

Sarah King, PhD Researcher and member of text-and-policy.com, will be teaching a free online workshop on webscraping using R. The event is open to all scholars regardless of university affiliation.

Register here: forms.gle/Q3pixYrbrEY6...
More info: www.ucd.ie/connected_po...

What Happens to Illustrators When Robots Can Draw Robots? Illustrators have made a living creating book covers. Now, artificial intelligence is learning to make art.

Source: www.nytimes.com/2023/11/04/b...

“The funny thing is, in so much science fiction it was theorized that robots, A.I., all this stuff was going to take over the drudgery, the hard labor, and free up humans to do creative work,” Paolini said.“Instead the A.I. is taking over the creative work, and we’re all stuck doing the hard labor.”

Unpacking P-hacking and Publication Bias (November 2023) - We use unique data from journal submissions to identify and unpack publication bias and p-hacking. We find initial submissions display significant bunching, suggesting the distributi...

Very cool paper just out in AER. They actually find *negative* amounts of publication bias - review process selects *against* marginally sig. results, even though reviewers like significance. Observed bunching is driven by p-hacking before submission.
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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Sometimes it is terminal velocity, sometimes it is quantum superposition, sometimes it is Puss in Boots, sometimes it is Bastet incarnate but mostly it is people who still wanna play the engagement game after they ran out of steam with Covid BS.

Excel bungling makes top trainee doctors 'unappointable' Mangled mismatch of formats, macros, and VLOOKUP practice hits wannabe anesthetists

Multiple people have sent this excel horror story to me. Excel: unsafe by design. No excuse for using in a professional context to manage data. www.theregister.com/2023/10/12/e...

In spirit of promoting null results papers...

Two-wave field experiment shows no increase in housing discrimination against immigrants - here, Turkish - in Germany after a wave of mass immigration.

New research in Sociological Science (not yet on Bluesky).

sociologicalscience.com/articles-v10...

The strain on scientific publishing 📄:

We've got issues. Scientists overwhelmed, editors overworked, constant special issue invites, mass article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!?

See: arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884

A 🧵1/n
#AcademicChatter #PublishOrPerish #PhDAdvice #PhDChat

Bad news, but the silver lining is that half the "strain" is coming from MDPI, a paper mill whose journals only pretend to do peer review

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...