Daniel Oliveira Zacarias

David Lynch (RIP) meme variation where in a conversation with fellow filmmaker Jason Barlow, David Lynch said, "Python feels like soldering; R feels like painting." When Barlow asks him to "Elaborate on that," Lynch smiles and says, "No."

Possibly weirded out my long-suffering colleagues with this idiosyncratic observation last week, and feel like it belongs in a meme.

#RStats #Python #RIPDavidLynch

Some notes on probability judgement – Notes from a data witch For the love of fuck, literally nobody thinks that 20% of the population is transgender. Please stop sharing that ridiculous YouGov statistic

Against my better instincts, I have written some notes on how human probability judgements work and what you should expect from surveys that ask people to guess what proportion of the population is transgender. I hope never to speak of this matter again

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Article looks interesting. Scientists need to put more energy toward saving the planet, biosphere, humanity.

The right, of course, will scream "Communism!!!"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Acabamos de aprovar, na Câmara dos Deputados, a urgência do PL 2628/22.

Conhecido como “ECA Digital”, o Projeto protege crianças e adolescentes da exploração sexual nas redes sociais e freia parte dos abusos das big techs

Com isso, o PL poderá ser votado direto no Plenário da Câmara.

Check out our new pre-print in which we argue something that might be obvious but doesn't seem to be obvious to everyone: Large Language Models (such as ChatGPT) do not simulate human psychology.

The goal of a PhD is not to learn some facts or read a few papers or learn a bunch of techniques. The goal of a PhD is to learn independence, problem solving, how to finish things you start, resilience, & gain the ability to adapt & think creatively. Learning these things is hard.

the xkcd “all modern digital infrastructure” tower block comic. but in addition to the little tiny block of open source software that some random person is maintaining without getting paid, there is an enormous fucking wedge jammed into it labelled AI with a crank you can turn to jam more AI in and topple the entire structure

tech in 2025

source: mastodon.social/@nclm/115021...

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Our (@malte.the100.ci, @ianhussey.mmmdata.io) commentary "cognitive dissonance in large language models is neither cognitive nor dissonant" has just been accepted for publication at PNAS!

Check out the thread below for a summary of our arguments.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

🎉New paper out @Psychological Review on the neuroscience of intergroup contact🎉

Led by the fantastic @margaretrwelte.bsky.social ‬and Jas Cloutier!

@apajournals.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social @sansmeeting.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #AcademicSky

psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Linked In post from Mike Matsel, Principle Development Lead, XBox Graphics: "The XBox Graphics team is hiring folks with experience with device drivers, GPU performance, or related validation or engineering system experience. If the positions are closed and you want to apply, please message me!" And below it is an "AI" slop that reads in white on green "XBOX GRAPHICS IS HIRING" and an image of a woman in a green sweater wearing earpods typing on a computer, except the "AI" has put the screen on the back of the monitor.

The fucking head of fucking XBox Graphics used a fucking "AI" slop image to hire new engineers but couldn't tell that the fucking screen on the fucking monitor is facing backwards.

Attention LLM numpties

“Won’t get fooled again”: statistical fault detection in COVID-19 Latin American data - Globalization and Health Background Claims of inconsistency in epidemiological data have emerged for both developed and developing countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods In this paper, we apply first-digit Newcomb-Be...

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

FIFA drops anti-racism, anti-discrimination messages for Club World Cup

America is one of those countries where if you host a global sporting event, inclusive messages have to be censored to so as not to anger the central government. In this case the message is “racism is bad” www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...

I've done a fair bit of research & read more on how to increase retirement savings. It's made me pretty pessimistic about every strategy except mandatory, universal pensions for baseline retirement income security. Lots of people just won't choose to save but will need $ later.

One of the strongest illusions I’ve seen recently.

This is what a Cold Air Front looks like from Space

Fitting a generalized mixed model with a gamma distribution log link and random slopes to reaction time data to arrive at precisely the same point estimate as the authors did by simply averaging and conducting a t-test:

I generally recommend people to compare themselves to their past selves (i.e., have mastery goals). But if you *must* compare yourself to others, do it well and enter resources, social support, and random luck as covariates in your model.

“Next week will be quieter“, he mutters to himself for the 792nd week in a row

YouTube video by Brasil de Fato Qualquer um está suscetível ao vício em bets | BdF Entrevista Altay de Souza

Bom link para jogar no grupo da Família:
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O PL 2159/21, conhecido como "PL da Devastação", foi aprovado no Senado e pode flexibilizar o licenciamento ambiental para empreendimentos, abrindo caminho para mais desmatamento e destruição. 🧶

Acho que Her deu uma expectativa errada do que seria se apaixonar por uma IA. Faltou enshitification. Na real seria um relacionamento abusivo, forçando o usuário a comprar coisas, frequentar anunciantes, assinar serviços, pagar por funções, abandonar contatos reais, votar em fascista…

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Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard (Gift Article) An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.

Governo dos EUA: ataca universidade de Columbia e ameaça cortar verba

Columbia: desculpa, tá aqui tudo o que pediram, pode mandar aqui

Governo: corta verba mesmo assim

Governo dos EUA: ataca Harvard e ameaça

Harvard: cai pra cima

Governo: foi mal, mandamos ameaças por engano

Tarifar burrice que é bom ninguém tarifa....

Por isso acredito muito na força das artes marginais. Façam stand-up, desenhem gibis, escrevam fanfic no wattpad. Não tentem encontrar a voz de vocês só fazendo projetos que precisam de milhões de reais pra acontecer.