James A Campbell

I'm surprised R doesn't already have ternary operators... especially since they added anonymous functions somewhat recently.

Here's my prettier --- but probably an awful idea --- take on the user-implemented ternary operator.

This is a great podcast. Its very refreshing to hear senior researchers candidly discuss the (rather obvious) problems we have in academia currently.

Also, really good gossip about the RS & Elon Musk.

Anybody have a link to the clip of Feynman that Dorothy is referring to at 20:30?

Is this exclusively on spotify? It didn't show up when i searched it on my usual podcast platform.

That did work! I had no idea u could get around paywalls so easily :/

I hit my free article limit :(

Is there a gift link for this article?

Also, this panel is titled "top 15 AI methods" and includes PCA, logistic regression, and nearest neighbours!?

I'm so confused...

I don't work in data science... So maybe im just missing details... But i don't have any idea what this study consideres to be an "AI-augmented" paper (which is kind of the most important detail).

Artificial intelligence tools expand scientists’ impact but contract science’s focus - Nature Artificial intelligence boosts individual scientists’ output, citations and career progression, but collectively narrows research diversity and reduces collaboration, concentrating work in data-rich a...

A friend sent me this paper... I tried reading it... But i literally have no idea what this paper is even supposed to be.

Is this a legit paper? Or is this some AI bandwagon slop that got past the editors?

#ai #datascience #academiclife

As much as i hate this... Almost every scientist i know uses chatGPT (i don't).

I think the overwheling demand for tools like this is indicitive of the broader problems we have in science.

Why Donald Trump really wants Greenland – podcast Tom Burgis on Donald Trump’s friend Ronald Lauder, a billionaire with business interests in Greenland

Guardian did a nice podcast on the origins of the Trump Greenland thing...

It's exactly what you expect. Some New York nepo-billionair-baby with financial interests phoned him and told him to do it... And that's apparently all it takes to do an "inception" on Trump.

US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.

Trump has been in office for one year. We at @nature.com did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers.

Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social

This graph makes me want to cry.

ya, I was pretty confused when I skimmed the journal description... it seemed to blur the lines between preprint and peer-reviewed articles in a confusing way. I'd be curious to know why the authors opted for this journal.

Has anyone heard of the journal F1000Research? Is this a sketchy-ass journal?

I just got a review invitation for a paper there that was submitted more than three years ago already!?!? (first published: 17 Oct 2022).

Very confused, and opted to decline this one.

#academiclife

"I'm old, I'm white, I'm a man, so everything's against me. And so didn't apply...".

Says the president of the Royal society after being elected a second term.

It's the same a-hole who refuses to consider removing Elon from the RS.

Is there a gift link for the article?

RealOrAI Unsure if an image, video, or audio is real or AI-generated? Post it here and we'll figure it out together!

The r/RealOrAI subreddit is a goldmine for learning the subtle tells of convincing AI videos...and also fucking horrifying.

Most things I see on there, i would have never second guessed them.

What exactly does the public engagement committee do?

I've been sitting on this for over a month...but given how cross I am with @royalsociety.org at their ongoing inaction over #Elon #Musk I thought I'd share this.

They invited me to serve on their Public Engagement Committee; I could have been more eloquent, but I had to give a firm "no"...

I would say squash it. A messy private history may just distract from the much more important public history. Users would only be interested in changes since they have started using the repo, right?

i struggle to imagine why anyone would be interested in reading commit messages from a time before they had access to a repo.

Of course. And libraries written in fortran are still in use today... But how on earth is this ranking higher than matlab?

The ranking metric takes into account searches... So this suggests a vast number of ppl are still actively learning and using it, which is wild to me.

YouTube video by Grant Sanderson Visualizing transformers and attention | Talk for TNG Big Tech Day '24

Finally making it through Grant's (3brown1blue) talk on transformer models.

Is there some nobel-prize of math communication we can give this guy? If not, can we just give him a "sexiest man alive" award?

Dude deserves every accolade for his fantasic math animations.

Can someone explain how fortran is so high? I know some physicists still use it... But i thought it was a niche legacy language. I'm impressed it beats out matlab here!

Trump is trying to force US oil companies to rebuild Venezuelan oil fields that are too expensive to invest in at current crude prices while a full blown energy revolution is happening with cheap solar and electrification growing exponentially.

This is a dying empire shit.

Put pressure on publishers to follow best practice — external regulation is the answer Journals that work hard to meet the needs of both authors and readers should be acknowledged publicly — encouraging others to follow suit.

“I propose academic journals submit to independent regulation through an international quality-management standard. Organisations must demonstrate operations are customer-focused, committed to continual improvement, underpinned by systematic management approaches & evidence-based decision-making”

They calculated the AI CO2 training cost by dividing by the number of monthly queries.

So the more total chatGPT queries, the "lower" the carbon foot print for AI writing. Pretty dumb metric in the context of climate change.