Poe’s law case?
In support of #OpenScience, we routinely ask authors to openly share their #research #code before publication.
We are now formalizing this practice with a mandatory #code-sharing policy and clarifying what we mean by code sharing.
May be nice to cut-out the box for reference
plos.io/47dPeOW
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This one below is quite interesting, guess a good demo of the plagiar-o-matic 2000 bsky.app/profile/amus...
FWIW - I have been regularly using Gemini, ChatGPT and a few others to 'ghost' tasks I'm doing, eg, figuring out emissions intensity of a gas turbine or something myself and then asking the same once I know the real answer
It's remarkable how subtle the errors, false references and mistakes are
(one issue is that we don't have exact dates of de- and re- registration; we have number of days in a calendar year registered, and first and last days of registration in that year. So sometimes we can infer the dates, and sometimes not. We do, however, have exact days of events coded by GPs)
If they de-register from Welsh NHS, they "disappear" for us until they re-register with a Welsh GP (e.g., they move to England for Uni, then come back). We do not have records outside of Wales. Yes, a person an experience A and B multiple times (so for common codes, bias is less).
But we have 15 years of data so I did a simulation adding gaps (modelled on the incomplete data gaps) to complete data to estimate the bias, as a first go
Yeah, that’s the issue; we have Welsh NHS data but they might (say) move temporarily to England for University
That’s very generous. OK to email?
Yes, clinical codes (so “GP reports that X talked about Y”)
> but I'm less familiar with this area, so I'm not sure the "best" approaches. Done matching of time periods, restriction to complete data (loses data and for more fatal diseases causes a different kind of bias!), and trying to estimate bias via simulation. If it helps this is population-level data.
To my health researcher colleagues: when you're looking at routinely collected data (over many years) and you're interested in the relationship b/w two kinds of events (say, diagnosis for diseases A and B), how do you best deal with time gaps (eg people moving)? Obviously these introduce time bias >
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antirealists intensify
I'm not linking to yet another White Man On The Internet's blog post, but suffice to say:
No, LLM extruders *can't* do ethnographic research or social semiotic analysis
What they *have done* is flood the zone with slop that makes social science research & analysis infinitely harder than before
This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Every year in spring, a lovely side of humanity shows in the form of a fish doorbell in Utrecht, Netherlands, but what is it and what does it do?
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Next RSS discussion meeting has picked a great topic:
'Regression by composition' by Daniel Farewell, Rhian Daniel et al.
Tuesday, 24 March 2026; Imperial College London, and online.
Time: 4pm to 6pm (UK time)
Introductory DeMO 2:15pm to 3:15pm
Registration here: rss.org.uk/training-eve...
Glob-glob! Absolutely magical sea anemone larva (about 7 mm) from The Lombok Strait, Indonesia 🇮🇩
Update: I spent seven tries just to get it to change an uppercase delta to a lowercase one. It kept “fixing” the problem (still uppercase!). After seven tries, it finally just substituted a “hand-crafted” SVG path (!). (I know this is easy to fix myself; wanted to
see if I could do it with prompts)
every statement from schumer is like the villager in zelda who’s 300 feet away from an evil towering castle going “ganon? never heard of him. boy I wish someone would round up 10 chickens to put back in my coop”
Yeah, given the extreme cost of the infrastructure just to maybe cut out some boring boilerplate coding? Doesn’t seem worth it.
Yeah, I really can't stress enough that AI code assistants royally fuck up statistical analyses. And they do it with absolute confidence.
I'm specifically testing claims of people I know re: LLMs using a test case that I've already coded myself. I don't think it has streamlined the work, really. It does boilerplate fine, but then I have to check any serious code. Not a net gain (but a change in the nature of the work)
Trying to one-shot this app has been a disaster - there are a bunch of interconnected animations/interface dependencies between parts of the app that it just screws up. Building it one logical step at at time seems to work better. I've tried it three times in various ways.
I *think* so - but all credit to Travis on that, it was his vision.
it was my pleasure to receive and edit a nice paper. Travis Proulx and I are pleased at how that whole special issue turned out.
Also, sometimes a change will completely hose the app. The order in which I ask it to add features is very important (in ways that seem logical given that it doesn't...know...anything, but still - if you thought this was anything like asking a person to complete a task you wouldn't understand why.
> d3.js code with animations, but "vibe coding" scientific apps is likely to be very dangerous. I would need to completely gut this app of the backend stats functions and substitute my own.
And, in fact, in my own code I use this fast *approximation* for animation speed before replacing it with the correct answer after the animation stops. But here it has simply used it has the "correct" answer. Of course, this doesn't mean that using Claude might not have save me time writing >
