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Clicked "See All" on Concur but sadly did not become omniscient.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The Vice Dean who gets FOMO from approving travel reimbursements.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Both 2FA and accepting cookies all day. I predict in 2035 there will be a third thing.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Sure QJE has a fabricated data scandal. But once again, they claim this is somehow new, when a few psychologists had been doing this for years.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

LLMs seem like the human experience of reading aloud when it is going extremely well, as if, to the listener, you could look away from the book and continue reading all the same. Musicians call this "reading ahead". It is predicting the next letter, word, tone, mood from what came before.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Reading aloud improves comprehension. In this case, that means reduced confusion and differential response to risk vs mirrors. files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ8...

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

I’ll use this as an opportunity to promote a second independent non-replication. bsky.app/profile/geow...

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Sending my accountant a long philosophical stream-of-consciousness email a few days before the tax deadline.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Live picture of Trump showing his cross-modality matching tariff results where he was asked to adjust the brightness of a light and loudness of a pure tone to generate power functions that would set the tariffs.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

this guy should call his senator tbh

submitted 80 days ago • 120 comments

When I was in grad school in the 90's the rule of thumb from twin studies was that the heritability of everything was ~50%. It turns out that twin studies are highly confounded, & after unconfounding w/ new genome-based methods (Family-GWAS), the median heritability of behavioral phenotypes is ~5% 🧪

submitted 82 days ago • 3 comments

Sure it's a 1/1000 chance. But, the real question is "What’s the probability of such a bad trading day, given that the economy is actively being destroyed by someone.” Then it is more like 9/10. #ForeverBayesian

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Mutiny is totally a thing pirates do. Can we blame him? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

imagine explaining to someone in 2016 that Bill Kristol had united in a AOC/Bernie popular front against fascism

submitted 96 days ago • 362 comments

Dolphins greeting astronauts—a beautiful planet

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social scientists should be smart enough not to see broad trends in observational data and conclude it's due to their pet theory BUT ALAS I GUESS

submitted 103 days ago • 4 comments

Now you can read a short version of our comment on the AER paper, "Decisions under Risk Are Decisions under Complexity" on Data Colada. ... or the long version: bsky.app/profile/geow... ... or a follow-up (just posted yesterday): bsky.app/profile/geow... Bonus points for reading all 3.

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment