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More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
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This should be on the front page of every U.S. paper

kermit the frog from sesame street is playing a banjo Alt: kermit the frog from sesame street is playing a banjo

So @analog-ashley.bsky.social and I have a podcast together and we're the same height and we're both in brain or mind sciences and we both work on changing beliefs about technical work and sometimes people are like how do you tell them apart. Easy.

This is Ashley

When you sent me the piggy gif earlier I immediately realized I was kermit

Love this!

Now, how to directly assess process? :)

I don't believe it is the best tool for every problem or every person.

How much faster it is really depends on the task (which also interacts with the exact AI model) as well as the people using it (and specifically, how good they are at using it, as a tool!).

Is "spec driven development" what you describe here?

"Work “backwards” with the AI. Generate rough documentation, rough/high-level architecture diagrams, then a testing plan, then the tests, then stubbed feature-flagged code… THEN generate the code."

(Regardless, agree about this workflow!)

Learn AI-Assisted Python Programming, Second Edition - Leo Porter and Daniel Zingaro Learn AI-Assisted Python Programming (2nd Ed.) - Master creating Python AI Programs Using GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT

Leo Porter & Daniel Zingaro made some great headway with this (but much continues to change!)

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I think my question is: what does that "supervision" look like? I couldn't have accomplished what I did this week as easily without my existing coding knowledge, and Claude and I probably would have had more miscommunication (and communication, I think, is a huge part of what we need to teach).

I've been thinking about what this means for education *a lot* this week as I watched Claude take the wheel (with a ton of supervision) for a few coding projects. I teach my "programming for biologists" class in the Winter and I think my plan needs to change.

I'm curious about one thing you say here: "none of the stats that I present will be ones that ChatGPT decided to run for me." It sounds like ChatGPT was pretty good with your data, and any modern model would allow you to choose a stats workflow anyway. What happens when you and ChatGPT agree? :)

Yupppp I had a pretty mind blowing experience with Claude (code) this week. I didn't push it on any advanced statistics but it wrote a full exploratory notebook for me.

I don't think anyone should be spending time writing code line-by-line any longer.

No f*cking way. Share @SenatorSchumer Subscribe The GOP is hellbent on taking health care away. Let's break it down:

This is a legitimately amazing video from @schumer.senate.gov

Please watch.

Thank you, Chuck Schumer!

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Here's a great play-by-play by @maggiefero.bsky.social!

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Hey UC faculty, please sign! cucfa.solidarity.tech/no-capitulat...

UCLA chancellor ready to stand firm against Trump demands, unless they’re ‘valid’ UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk, speaking at an event with a Los Angeles-based Jewish organization, defended campus efforts to support Jewish communities.

The chances they're 'valid'?

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Great note to end #monktoberfest!

“Trust is infrastructure.” - @bcantrill.bsky.social

True across all institutions and organizations.

“Evidence is a light in the goddamn darkness” - @grimalkina.bsky.social YES. @monktoberfest.com #monktoberfest

First time @analog-ashley.bsky.social and I have presented at the same conference together!!!!! This was pure delight ❤️❤️❤️❤️ #monktoberfest

May be working on it 😏

Bahahah guilty 😆

Thank you for having me!

vibe-EEGing, perfect 👌

Wow, I have never had someone so succinctly and effectively summarize a talk I’ve given!

Thank you @maggiefero.bsky.social 🙌

Thank you, Adam! Was really fun to curate some content for #monktoberfest 🧠

Still anxiously awaiting to see how the UCs respond to this. It’s been an information blackout for a long time.

One of the opener talks from @gabyberk.bsky.social at #monktoberfest that includes the impact of math anxiety

Love this especially bc @analog-ashley.bsky.social and I did a deep dive into math anxiety & how it works & why it's not learners' fault

www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...

Bringing neuroscience to rural Mexico Monica López-Hidalgo’s outreach program, Neurociencias Para Todos, gives schoolteachers tools to bring neuroscience to their communities.

¡#OpenScience para todos!

Neurociencias Para Todos is bringing neuroscience to rural Mexico with curriculum feat. our free and open brain atlases.

Dra. López-Hidalgo shares the story and impact of the program w/ @analog-ashley.bsky.social.

www.thetransmitter.org/community/br...

#OpenScienceWeek

LOL great question. My freshman year roommate made fun of me for saying "wooder" so I unlearned that pretty quickly. 😬

Aw yes helloooooo 👋