Adam Visokay

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Why do we keep changing things for cars instead of people? | Op-Ed Narrative around technology such as driverless cars continues the portrayal of pedestrians and cyclists as impediments rather than people who share the roads.

"The stories we tell about technology shape our cities and our civic future," writes Nassim Parvin in a @seattletimes.com op-ed on pedestrian safety in the context of driverless cars proliferating. @nassimparvin.bsky.social www.seattletimes.com/opinion/driv...

Great post worth reading.

In working on a related comment earlier today, it occurred to me that we don’t discuss often enough how the fields most concerned about science (and most involved in reforming it) are the ones most wedded to NHST as the arbiter of truth.

In “Limits of Predicting Individual-Level Longevity,” Badolato et al. assess a range of classic statistical & machine learning survival analysis models. @nickirons.bsky.social @monjalexander.bsky.social @ugobas.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

it’s not you, it’s me. I recalibrated my gradient and we‘re orthogonal now

Palantir CEO Alex Karp Recorded a Video About ICE for His Employees In a video shared with Palantir employees, Alex Karp did not explain how ICE is utilizing the company’s products. Instead, workers were told they can sign NDAs if they want detailed information.

Most tech workers, even at Palantir (probably), are pro-social compared to the tech owner and VC classes. They need unions so their voices matter for company governance.

www.wired.com/story/palant...

So much anti-fat discrimination and ads promoting semaglutides and AI. Would be crazy if someone wrote a dissertation on this...

“If you hide that there’s A.I., it sells just fine”

CMU LTI Summer 2026 Internship Program Application We are looking for applicants for the Carnegie Mellon University Language Technology Institute's Summer 2026 "Language Technology for All" internship program. The main goal of this internship is to pr...

🚀 Apply to CMU LTI’s Summer 2026 “Language Technology for All” internship! 🎓 Open to pre‑doctoral students new to language tech (non‑CS backgrounds welcome). 🔬 12–14 weeks in‑person in Pittsburgh — travel + stipend paid. 💸 Deadline: Feb 20, 11:59pm ET. Apply → forms.gle/cUu8g6wb27Hs...

I talk a bit about the history of bonds in this radio show.

"We hear about their history, how they have shaped companies and countries, and why some fear the bond market could trigger the next global meltdown."

Zeynep Tufecki on having the wrong nightmares about generative AI I was writing a blog post where I was going to reference Zeynep Tufecki’s 2025 NeurIPS keynote, and realized there isn’t a solid synopsis online.

Wrote a summary of a great keynote by @zey.bsky.social at NeurIPS, arguing that we’re having the wrong nightmares about AI: not AGI or superhuman benchmarks, but good-enough genAI at scale threatens "load bearing frictions" society relies on to signal effort, authenticity, sincerity, credibility.

I’m collaborating on a comparative historical piece that builds on breimans two cultures to trace the ascendancy of what we are calling the computational data regime. Should have a preprint to share soon 👀

I was uninitiated until age 28 but now there’s no going back

Hey! Go follow my new account, @mayorofseattle.bsky.social !

I found this useful re custom claude agents. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RivV...

Many analysts problem? Never heard of them

In a new blog post, I contrast two flavors of empiricism: the one practiced in the social sciences and the one practiced in ML/CS.

I argue that we need both, given that CS is increasingly about "claims," and not just constructing artifacts.

doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-empiri...

World map with interconnected lines and text about migration during the pandemic

Diagram shows estimated changes in the migrant population after a one-month travel ban for France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the US by country of origin.

Estimate of the change in the migrant population due to a one-month travel ban in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the US by country of origin.

Jordan D. Klein & Ingmar Weber published a Letter to the Editor in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that opens a conversation on the findings of Chi et al (Measuring global migration flows using online data). https://www.demogr.mpg.de/go/PNAS-Letter-Editor

New paper in Social Science Research 📄
Using expenditure data, we find same-sex couples are modestly more likely than different-sex couples to outsource housework. Much of this gap reflects higher education and paid work hours, though much is unexplained. Free access for 50 days: tinyurl.com/ssossr

Hey that’s pretty neat

Context Widows or, of GPUs, LPUs, and Goal Displacement

I wrote a piece on LLMs, citation metrics, and the institution of science. It's been up for a couple of days, but it is officially "out" now.

Growing up in America I believed that Germans were stereotypically on time. But now after several visits I have learned that the rail system is actually quite inconsistent. (Hi from the max planck institute👋)

Isn't an important part of the work of organizing building that imagination -- helping people see that it doesn't have to be this way? (And then also finding and sharing resources at a local level and...)

Update: I shared some confidence intervals and more at this years @imprs-phds.bsky.social annual academy. Missed you @drjenndowd.bsky.social but more to come!

It's great to see IMPRS-PHDS doctoral students, alumni, faculty members, and friends back at @mpidr.bsky.social for our 7th PHDS Academy and three days filled with research presentations, networking, and singing!

The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research | PNAS The advancement of large language models poses a severe, potentially existential threat to online survey research, a fundamental tool for data coll...

Have you had a chance to read this yet? www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

I’m new to using agents, but have a research task where i think they could be useful. given a big dataset, i want to use agents to simulate a bunch of treatment combinations - more than you could do irl. And then characterize what you can and can’t learn using agents for scientific discovery

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