I know, I know, but... I still laughed.

okay, but counterpoint - it nicely parallels "let's have cake"

Particularly as someone who is much worse when taped than in person, I absolutely agree

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The idea here is decent - keep a memory of your family dinner table discussions. And it's got a clear on/off switch, so not autorecording.

Still... can't quite get past the "but who wanted this?" of it all.

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Hah - I was just about to comment that's a deep cut! (Of course, that means I'm also showing my age...)

Omg. I can't do make it, but I would have, and *you should*

Oh, they must have been putting together their bio-bib for a UC.

I’ve launched a website on measurement, experimentation, and causal inference:

danrschley.github.io/Measurement-...

I built it to share methods ideas that are often taught separately, but are deeply connected in practice.

yep. (Interestingly enough though, I didn't see this when you first posted it.)

I absolutely believe this is also true of neuro-jargon

Horrified daily by what happens when the two intersect

"We are watching two disciplines trade their worst habits. Neuroscience is mistaking benchmarked prediction for understanding, and machine learning is mistaking mechanistic language for mechanism. ..."

This is kind of awesome? I mean, it's not quite "Molly's blade nails in Neuromancer" awesome, but it's probably more practical 💅🏽

PAPER ACCEPTED TODAY!

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The always amazing Zach King

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Dad jokes are always exempt. Special status.

that's high praise (particularly since you give *excellent talks*) so thank you!

Turns out it didn't have legs

Oh, hello soapbox!

You don't have to tell jokes to be funny in talks. (One charming finance colleague has brought the house down when quirking an eyebrow at a contrary stat.)

Speakers are engaging when they can bring the audience with them conversationally, and that allows funny to happen

Dear ChatGPT, Am I the Asshole?
While Reddit users might say yes, your favorite LLM probably won’t.
We present Social Sycophancy: a new way to understand and measure sycophancy as how LLMs overly preserve users' self-image.

"I'm Not Sure, But...": Examining the Impact of Large Language Models' Uncertainty Expression on User Reliance and Trust | Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Trans...

I particularly like this one
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Doing some background reading for an AI persuasion talk & finding that the computational fields are *kicking behavioral science's butt*

A wealth of studies on human/LLM uncertainty, confidence, overconfidence... published rapidly and concisely at conferences like ACM or ACL

Indeed - haven't done EEG, but have done some e-phys, and the NOISE...

I appreciate how EEG people are often the ones most critical of some of these applications!

This absolutely makes sense to me - my default novice setting is skepticism, so I appreciate having someone with expertise express the same.

I actually *remember* these.

This. Is. Stunning.

The Future of Food Testing May Be in Your Brainwaves Food companies trying to understand how consumers feel about a new product have relied on surveys, focus groups, and sensory panels for decades. But according to Mario Ubiali, founder and CEO of ne…

OK, it's an interesting argument that EEG could discriminate true taste preferences vs. those expressed due to social demand.

Not as sure about this take though: "the brain is very lazy and tends to prefer experiences that are comfortable and repeated"

thespoon.tech/the-future-o...

Paging OmegaMart?

Fine art as ... moral norm propaganda.

This is a cool little history/culture bit from the Getty