This reminds me a bit of Wei-Hwa Huang's blogpost about secondary goals in board games - onigame.livejournal.com/34424.html
I wonder how much this behavior is boredom / frustration / abandonment of the "intended" goal of learning as an LMS dictates...
My rule of thumb for rigor in data analysis/viz: "you need to be able to explain how any individual point or graphical element can be traced back to underlying data and observations of the real world".
I should start a business selling Mozart for Babies on cassette and vinyl.
It's the Brain Training bubble of 2010s, but in reverse.
I imagine, it will require more sophisticated prompting to get the AI version to do something unethical.
Curious how you like it. I’ve been thinking of upgrading my 12yo kobo to one with Libby/overdrive support
“Advice that hides tradeoffs shields people from making informed choices.”
Wait, I have a better summary:
"subjects who practiced in context A had better test performance in context A than subjects who practiced in context B and then were switched into context A"
"In one set of studies, with one operationalization of AI, and one task, one set of subjects show decreased performance after AI assistance is removed." just doesn't have the same ring though!
Agree! Alas (self-)awareness never seems to be as common as desired...
To me, "trust in science" is too large and too complex of a concept; and so is "scientists engaging in politics".
It seems obvious to me that one can drum up evidence for effects in any desired direction depending on how one operationalizes the concepts.
Further thoughts: if the variable is one where changes should be interpreted proportionally (+/- 10%) then, of course the y-axis should include 0.
I think my latest pet peeve is folks convinced that the y-axis in plots ALWAYS needs to start at 0.
It is necessary when the plot comparison is LENGTH.
(e.g. the height of bars in a bar chart)
It is NOT necessary when the plot comparison is POSITION.
(e.g. points or a line chart)
I'd be very curious to see your syllabus, if you are able to share!
As written in the news writeup, it feels a little like a false dichotomy to me:
"men drawn to tradwife exhibit 'benevolent sexism'"
and
"the strongest predictor is 'hostile sexism'"
can both be true. (one is what predicts tradwife support, one is what tradwife support predicts)
Image provenance seems like huge amount of effort, because the manipulation can always occur at the point of labeling and captions. archive.nytimes.com/opinionator....
I think the days of people running .bat files downloaded from napster are long past.
The idea of relying on appeal to authority for downloaded files doesn't sit well with me either.
I know sometimes settings are shared and synced via iCloud, so it could be a setting that is propagating from another Apple device.
I'm not and never saying AI is good. But the retreat back into romantic genius ideology that it's prompting, I will say, is bad.
No joke, I have heard proposals to tie financial assessments to sleep quality (i.e. make employees wear trackers, and give them a small penalty if they don't get good sleep)...
I'd be curious to dig into the details to see if they did anything like a permutation test.
My initial reaction is that the title gives me an ick, as "topic choice" reads as victim-blaming. (as opposed to stating that certain approaches or topics are not funded at equivalent rates)
RIP Haast's eagle
Question:
Is there an existing way to create a schema for a CSV file that a machine can use to understand and/or validate the data?
I'm curious what you find. It's been a pipe dream of mine to figure out how much could be automated w.r.t. the validation of Ecology Data Paper submissions.
I know EML exists - eml.ecoinformatics.org. I'm not quite sure to what extent it might support the validation of a csv file. (I also suspect a majority of ecologists don't use it or perhaps have never heard of it.)
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