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Autism has gone up by a factor of five since 2000 but acetominophen use during pregnancy has been going down. Sorry but the math just ain’t mathing.

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Happy to announce I just defended my dissertation at Harvard and I’m now a PhD.

Happy to announce I just defended my dissertation at Harvard and I’m now a PhD.

academic writing is so hard. only way i can do it is to pretend to be a terrible writer and then write like that.

The US government is aiming to get rid of a quarter million people involved in science research and education by 2026. I have no words.

The US government is aiming to get rid of a quarter million people involved in science research and education by 2026. I have no words.

Jeff Bezos’s wedding cost $50 million which is $20 million more than the U.S. government has spent on math research this year. We’re gutting science funding to fund tax cuts for billionaires.

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Amazing how AIs, whether built by right-wing billionaires or left-wing ones, keep discovering the same fundamental truth:

Rightwingers who argue free speech is only for citizens are telling on themselves. They don’t see free speech as a way to seek truth by testing our beliefs in the marketplace of ideas. They see it as a nuisance we tolerate because the Constitution says we have to.

problem: can't get the model to say what you want solution: just rewrite the data

Don’t learn AI because it can replace you. Learn AI because, whether it works or not, your boss is trying to replace you with it anyway. The more you understand the flaws, the better your chances of fighting back.

people more pro-AI than me? gullible nerds. people more anti-AI than me? fear-addled clowns. and me? perfect, as per usual

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The reason I say the US is entering a new dark ages is we’re seeing attacks not just on science, but on the very idea that scientific reasoning should be independent of political control.

The reason I say the US is entering a new dark ages is we’re seeing attacks not just on science, but on the very idea that scientific reasoning should be independent of political control.

The AI industry is full of blatant lies, but the claim that we can reliably detect AI-generated writing is one of the worst. The idea that these pseudoscientific AI writing detectors are being used to justify punishing young people makes me incandescent with rage.

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The AI industry is full of blatant lies, but the claim that we can reliably detect AI-generated writing is one of the worst. The idea that these pseudoscientific AI writing detectors are being used to justify punishing young people makes me incandescent with rage.

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Make no mistake. This is an extinction level event for American scientific dominance.

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so good 😭

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Some personal news: I have resigned from Boston University as of this week. Those of you that have been following me for a while will know I have been having some health issues—I have resigned to focus on recovery. I’ve also started a newsletter (epiellie.substack.com), so please follow me there.

HYPOTHESIS: The current turn towards anti-intellectualism in the US is in part a response to the increasing complexity and interconnectedness of the modern world.

Today I’m grateful for the time and space to perfect my craft while being mentored by some of the best scientists in the world.

An Oct 2024 Pew Research poll finds a majority of Americans and 64% of Republicans would prefer scientists not participate in public policy debates about science. Honestly, this explains a lot.

interviewed at an insurance company once. job was to statistically design disaster insurance policies with the right combo of caveats to pay out the least possible, but not so many caveats that the customers figured out what we were doing this was explained to me without shame

Beginning to understand why so many Americans are obsessed with trans issues and panicking about being replaced. They think there are 21x more trans people, 27x more muslims, 15x more jews, 5x more asians, 3x more black people, and 2x more immigrants than there actually are.

“free speech”

ChatGPT o1 preview scores high on benchmarks but I wonder how useful it is in practice. Have you been able to get ChatGPT o1 preview to reliably do meaningful mathematical work? If so, please share in the comments.