Adarsh Mathew

Disconcerting AI 'experiments' in r/changemyview from Uni of Zurich, which should have never passed IRB.

Link to the post from the Mods: www.reddit.com/r/changemyvi...

I just read this Variety hit job in which it's clear that Disney is trying to pin the failure of Snow White on Rachel Zegler. I'm confused: Did she make the studio spend $270 million on an unasked-for remake of a 90-year-old piece of IP?

A longer version of the Tufts announcement about the abduction of an international graduate student by federal authorities, circulating on Twitter and Reddit.

These same dynamics are in play for RFK Jr. His rise, nomination, and (likely) confirmation will be not despite his spreading pseudosience and conspiracy theories about public health, but because of it.

Someday, someone will write about how the conflation of university speech with “censorship” was used to mobilize actual government censorship.

One of the biggest things I've struggled with since moving from academia to industry is not being able to share what I've learned so others can improve their own work

I want to keep people safe online. Hiding information about how to do that often seems antithetical to that goal

In general I have stopped finding media criticism of the NYT useful or interesting but this made me retch

"Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead."
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-dange...

Honestly, this kind of open corruption would be striking even in Latin America. I think Americans are just not used to doing corruption quite like that, so they have no decorum. 1/

The spreadsheet brigade that's keeping LA's rental market from exploding There's an army of volunteers at their keyboards right now, all over the country, preventing the ignition of a secondary disaster by snuffing out LA's price-gouging rentals

The spreadsheet brigade that's keeping LA's rental market from exploding—new from @awalkerinla.bsky.social

www.torched.la/the-spreadsh...

That video of Palestinian medics being forced to march through the ruins in Gaza in their underwear. “One day everyone will have been against this”.

Closure of northern Minnesota camp is ‘the greatest story.’ Here’s why. Willow River, Minn., camp One Heartland is for sale after serving kids there for nearly three decades.

After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers.

Science works, y'all.

www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...

Don't Let the Enemies of Truth Ruin Wikipedia Elon Musk and other reactionary liars hate the "last good website" because it won't go along with their distortions

Wikipedia is the last good website, the one staple of the early internet that hasn't been degraded by pursuit of profit.

It's not an acceptable academic source—it's subject to change—but it's a great first cut, and has citations to acceptable sources.

We can't let post-truth reactionaries ruin it.

Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia The billionaire has become one of the most prominent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control.
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

IDF confession

IDF confessions

IDF confessoons

This Haaretz piece of IDF soldiers’ confessions of human rights violations absolutely wrecked me

www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...

Climbing the Ivory Tower: How Socio-Economic Background Shapes Academia Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

academics from poorer backgrounds are:
-severely underrepresented
-more likely to not publish
-have outstanding publication records
-introduce more novel scientific concepts, but less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations & awards
www.nber.org/papers/w33289

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.

Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

screenshot of an economist complaining that trump spewing nonsense about BLS stats should have been "front page news" but instead was "ignored." a washington post reporter who wrote a front-page story about exactly that replies, "it was literally on the front page of the washington post."

no shade to the op here, but i honestly think a lot of times when people are like "i can't believe the media ignored this story, it should have been front-page news," what they really mean is it should have been at the top of their social media feeds.

Bar chart of different barriers to healthcare

How do disparities in healthcare access affect ML models? 💰📉🧐 We found that low access to care -> worse EHR data quality -> worse ML performance in a dataset of 134k patients. Work with Anna Zink (on the faculty job market rn!) + Hongzhou Luan, presented at #ML4H2024

To photos: At left, Mangioni in an orange prison jumpsuit surrounded by dark-clad cops with weapons; at right, El Greco's Disrobing of Christ shows Christ in a crimson robe surrounded by dark-clad cops with weapons.

Not defending this guy at all but damn same energy.

Lots of clarity today

If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds…

NEW: Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves.

We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. ⤵️

The idea that what happens online doesn’t have offline effects is one that enrages me. I hesitate to even use terms like online/offline anymore as if there is some sort of switch you can trigger where you leave the internet behind and can move about in a world where it doesn’t exist. 🧵

The HPV vaccine is a game-changer: a 62% drop in cervical cancer rates💉👏

Match summary

Manchester City vs Manchester United
15-12-2024, Premier League
Score: 1:2
Expected Goals: 0.69:1.67
Possession: 49:51
#ManCity #MUFC
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I’m releasing a series of experiment to enhance Retrieval augmented generation using attention scores. colab.research.google.com/drive/1HEUqy... Basic idea is to leverage the internal reading process, as the model goes back and forth to the sources to find information and potential quotes.

Buying protection - for now. Happening right in front of us. But it’ll be leopards eating faces time again soon