Travis Korte

If you did a “1 like = 1 favorite sentence of the 20th century” type thread I bet it would slap, just saying

In the above figure, there's a government building next to "make it required". The #Openscience community requested this, and got it---of course nothing like they envisioned. It's a great time for #metascience to self reflect, engage with experts in weaponization of science, and re-examine rhetoric.

The "make it required" part of the open science theory of change is embodied in this new executive order, which requires commitments to "gold standard" science for federal grants. 

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Love to be an involuntary participant in a colossal performance of Alvin Lucier's "I am sitting in a room"

i guess if you really think about it there’s really only one “data-generating process” in the world and it’s called “measurement”

Miles Davis's autobiography is another classic addition to this category

Causal evidence that "the proliferation of surveys may lead to lower response rates" doi.org/10.1093/jssa...

this user has correctly divined how a LLM works: you imagine that you are talking to a person but you are actually talking to an abstract representation of the collective efforts of everybody involved in moving the pointer

This is *exactly* what I was getting at, thank you for articulating.

The latent space does not speak mortal language, how dare you?

Principal component analysis is fine but this is why you should never name your components

Screenshot that reads: Property Features Has view: Yes View description: Water Has water view: Yes Water view: Water

when will people finally acknowledge the truth that "is 'data' plural?" is a red herring: singular and plural "data" both exist and mean different things

I’m sort of surprised I haven’t encountered “datas” in humanities discourse — pluralizing mass nouns (“literatures,” “musics”) is a classic move.

Maybe we need the fish/fishes distinction.

Data: one or more members of the same species of data

Datas: two or more species of data

The fact that antihistamines can be used to relieve itches and also as sleep aids has led me to the conclusion that Consciousness is a Form of Itch

i'm not the right person to write an article about how ai training datasets are analogous to henry george's concept of 'land' and the profit generated by proprietary models built on stolen datasets are 'economic rents' but someone has to do it

living in a corrupt and unsafe environment is a computational tax. you suddenly have to *think* about the safety of things you take for granted, information processing resources you could have used for something else

This is like one of those theorems that unites two previously-thought-distinct branches of mathematics

Something evocative about this comparison also because the way you navigate stock image databases is through tags, which serve a similar function to image generation prompt tokens: [hacker] [typing] [keyboard] [sinister] [cyberspace]

The maintenance *is* the resilience! The technician is as much the system as the wires or the motors. Technology is activity, not artifact.

Many such cases

This is a fun prompt.

For me, maybe Werner Herzog? Dial into your eccentricities and morbid curiosities for decades until you're eventually broadly recognized and get paid Star Wars money to play a caricature of yourself.

“How a simple math error sparked a panic about black plastic kitchen utensils”: Does it matter when an estimate is off by a factor of 10?
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/12/13/h...

It’s probably that the median Dave is too old to be addicted to posting

I had an occasional thread of these on Twitter (“every film is a fiction film,” “all snowmen are abominable”)

Looks like I’ve found the starting point for a new thread on here.

Making art is costly (sometimes in resources but especially in time) and there’s an equilibrium to expressing yourself in the way that minimizes the likelihood that your friends and loved ones think of you as “the person who wastes their life making bad art.”

(Not endorsing this, but it exists)

The dynamic I’ve seen is more like:

-you’ll make “bad” work at first
-you need to practice to improve
-you’ll inevitably show work to people you’re close to
-it’s possible for the work to be so bad it alienates those people
-it’s hard to practice your work if it’s harming your relationships

Anyway, appreciate your take. Thanks!