Seb Bate

This week I have seen a large number of people discussing predictive analytics ad I have no idea what they mean.

Didn't work for wingdigns sadly

Trying to bring beers on to the terraces

Philosophers are basically the op-ed section of academia. Take that as you will.

Not to necessarily play devil's advocate but what would be the difference between providing a risk calculator and providing a table of coefficients (assuming the app was sufficiently validated for accuracy)?

Here's a bullet point list of why you can still use a bullet point lists 🔫

- you can fit more emojis in 😜
- it never triggers an AI detector 🔍
- a third reason - with an added em dash - for good measure3️⃣

When you have restrictions on the ability to create and share in SharePoint (esp between institutions), you wonder why people then use non-approved storage systems.

You don't get the same response from an LLM each time so sharing prompts wouldn't make it more reproducible.

Maybe it's a code for 'I have no idea how to apply estimands'.

Find another institution that has the same metric and then gift authorship on each other's papers 🙃

I just feel like the 'negotiations' between the US and Russia are going to result in Ukraine getting a worse-than-shit deal. Ukraine will reject it and the US will use it as a pre-text to stop any support to Ukraine bc UA rejected the deal.

I'm convinced that image alt text's main purpose is to train AI image models rather than help the visually impaired (not that I will stop providing alt text on my images).

If a scientist who uses a microscope in their work never learns how to use a microscope, we find them a new career.

If a scientist uses statistics in their work but never learns how to use statistics, we promote them even faster, and let them decide how other people should use statistics.

The worst version is you take a multivariable regression, find that 2+ variables have p<0.05 and call them 'independent risk factors'. 🤮

Headline stating: I knew one day I'd have to watch powerful men burn the world down - Ijust didn't expect them to be such losers by Rebecca Shaw

An early contender for headline of the year…

You shouldn't really be on an MSc if you intend to have a LLM write for you.

Laptop perched on a white cat

Some days I sit on the laptop, on others the laptop sits on me.

Cat doing a mlem

Cat with her leg out for grooming

Who are you picking in a fight? #catsofbluesky

Where?

Are these trials registered and just don't happen or never registered in the first place?

Surgery with AI? Let me ask chatgpt how to do an apendectomy.

Cat giving side eye

Work harder so you can buy more treats for me.

The other take out is follow the instructions meticulously.

Cat under a Christmas tree

Cat under a Christmas tree with snowman ornament.

A massive improvement and from what it looks like a very sensible approach.

Its all a massive waste of everyone's time. Lecturers hate teaching, students aren't engaged and can't achieve the academic rigour we should expect.

If you know what its targeting, some quite amusing prompt hacking would definitely be possible.

Cat gurning in front of a Christmas tree

He knows he the real angel on the top of the tree

I thought there was meant to be a more important vote that assisted dying today

If you're measuring tool was biased then the data gathered by it would be biased too? In general though data can't be biased.