This NACTO/USDOT report addresses how to downsize fire trucks in cities. nacto.org/wp-content/u...
If you are reviewing for IC2S2 and it gives you a headache from reading all 700+ paper titles/abstracts while bidding, I just built a tool for it. It uses an LLM to score how relevant each paper is to your research interests (you can define a list of keywords).
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I wrote briefly about how to do peer review for students: yyahn.com/wiki/Peer%20...
Also includes some other advices from others including @jessicacalarco.com @robjhyndman.com Matt Might and so on.
“Instead of producing what looks like a generic critique from a nameless LLM,” Wired reported last week, Expert Review “lists a number of real academics and authors available to weigh in on your text. To be clear: Those people have nothing to do with this process.”🤬
To offer some context, here's a graphic our fabulous intern Aidan Nuttall put together in 2023.
When we compared our per capita humanities research funding against 42 other countries, there was only a single country that spent less (South Africa), and most countries spent 10x-250x more.
this is so fun because i know an LLM wouldn’t give me a response this creative. like this took the funniest shortcut possible. come have fun at youraislopbores.me
(Polio. It's polio)
Three scientists said no to you-know-who and were featured in the news (you may, somehow, be able to picture them). Nice. Good judgement.
But it's hard not to be cynical about this whole situation. (I'm resisting... resisting...)
Here’s a full draft of the upcoming second edition of my “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction”: socviz.co
If you're unsure how to make your LaTeX-compiled PDFs (e.g., CV) accessible (compliant to the ADA requirements), this post may be useful.
yyahn.com/wiki/Accessi...
tl;dr: add metadata and use LuaLaTeX
NYU is hiring two postdocs at the Center for Social Media, AI & Politics:
csmapnyu.org/jobs
And a grant manager in Sociology with the Social Science Research Hub:
uscareers-nyu.icims.com/jobs/15327/g...
I'm part of both groups--please share with anyone who is interested!
I created a tool, snaketail, a snakemake wrapper that fixes workflow and restarts itself automatically when failed.
The idea—feeding the tail (error log) to the head (system input) to self-heal—has practical values to create robust automation system!
skojaku.github.io/snaketail.html
Ah.. no worries! Yes, that's frustrating part that to fix anything, you need to fix other things, and then to fix any of those other things, you need to fix yet other things, ...
But I do feel that having fire dept have some smaller fire engines and allow narrow streets can be an important step
I think the video I linked was useful for me on that front... I think it's primarily a historical legacy of big fire engines becoming the standard while the highway engineering standards become the way cities design their streets too? www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2dH...
yeah a great headline 😂
It will be 3/4 6pm at CitySpace (100 5th St NE)!
www.charlottesville.gov/m/newsflash/...
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www.404media.co/openai-furio...
futurism.com/future-socie...
Excited to join the panel "Innovation, Production, and Supply Chains in Critical Technologies" at CMU moderated by @andygarin.bsky.social and Erica Fuchs this Wednesday, 2/26 at 2pm! If you're in Pittsburgh, come say hi!
www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/197...
I'll look forward to the discussions sparked by this!
First blogpost of my cofounder post-Delhi on the deafening silence of public/political sphere as we come closer to another industrial revolution. anastasiastasenko.substack.com/p/the-countr...
Even more evidence that building new housing decreases rents: Researchers tracked the residents of a newly built luxury condo building and found that they freed up less expensive apartments nearby.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Together with @mrjimmyblack.com (and Claude) we developed a tool that helps detecting hallucinated references in academic papers! This evolved from a simple python script into a full system written in Rust to quickly go through thousands of citations. Check it out!
github.com/gianlucasb/h...
the deadline to submit to the WiNS satellite & mentorship program at @netsciconf.bsky.social is this friday!!
Replacing a car with an e-bike can _literally_ make you a millionaire.
I wrote about a back-of-the-envelope math: a household can save ~$100k in just 5 years by going car-light. If this difference is invested over several decades, that can become $1M+
yyahn.com/wiki/Cost%20...
We've alllllmost gotten all the Jan26 ARR reviews in, but I'm still trying to track down new emergency reviewers for papers on the following topics:
1) agents
2) jailbreaking
3) coding
4) RL
5) reasoning
6) LLM for finance
7) AMR
8) alignment
If you can review any (in next 24-48h) please DM me 🙏🙏🙏
A very good visual explanation of colon cancer risk.
Happy to share our new paper published in PNAS!
Using epigenetic clocks and egocentric network data, we find each additional "hassler" in your close social network is associated with ~9 months of extra biological age and 1.5% faster pace of aging.
A common but tedious task is to file a paper into my personal knowledge base (wiki/obsidian vault/whatever). just realized that this is a perfect task for subagent + skill. It can (1) use OpenAlex etc to obtain its metadata, (2) search and link keywords and other related papers. Seems to work well!
Revision now posted on the ArXiv! We collated and cleaned EVEN MORE DATA. 39M accounts, 365K starter packs, and 2.4B following relationships. All accounts, follows, and starter packs now have timestamps! Check it out at arxiv.org/abs/2505.11608.
