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acastroaraujo.bsky.social
sociology grad student | statistics | computation | organizations | 🇨🇴 https://acastroaraujo.github.io/blog/
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Lol. It was always a mistake to focus on making these new models experts at math.

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— How to make an airplane fly safely? — How to make a country more democratic? One problem with the mindless demarcation between politics and science is that some people believe one of these questions is "science" but the other is "activism."

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James Scott is to conservative politics as Carl Schmitt is to leftist politics. I will not elaborate.

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I tried to get myself out of writer's block hell by writing a small blog about positivism in sociology and elsewhere. acastroaraujo.github.io/blog/posts/2...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I'm pretty sure the situation in sociology is much worse... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Today’s episode of The Daily is devastating.

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People should stop being surprised about LLMs inability to do basic arithmetic with large numbers. It's obvious that humans see two numbers in the following image. But the LLM receives 1 token in the first case and 7 in the other. Is it really that surprising?

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Seeing this is very cool. youtu.be/R1QEV9euGAg

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Welp. www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt...

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For the #rstats crowd, how would you feel if you see someone writing code like this?

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Mirá @alecortesarbe.bsky.social. Lenguaje técnico de la Corte vs Lenguaje artificial

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

god why must we include figures separately in submissions

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The person with the "Africa is not a country" t-shirt seems confused about my "America is not a country" t-shirt.

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Part of the reason we don’t see a lot of good interdisciplinary work is that gaining competence in another field takes a lot of hard work.

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It’s discouraging to think about how much hinges on a very small group of people behaving with integrity.

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Today’s anthropological record is filled with exotic Europeans standing obediently in an empty street with a “Stop” sign.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Sinners (2025)

submitted 13 days ago • 53 comments

I love this man

submitted 9 days ago • 21 comments

I think about this once a month. www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

do it for the rule of law

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Hey, I'm on the Casual Inference podcast this week! I've been a massive fan of @lucystats.bsky.social and @epiellie.bsky.social since Episode 1 of Casual Inference. Talking to great experts (and conversationalists!) like them was a ton of fun. Thanks so much for the invitation!

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment