too many polecats not enough deacons

"do you have 5 minutes to chat?"

Extremely good visualization of NBA games. I especially like being able to see the +/- of different lineups over the course of a game (and not just because it supports my thesis that Devin Vassell is the engine that makes SA run) hoopflow.limboy.me?tab=games&ga...

✨The NLP+CSS workshop is returning to ACL 2026!✨ And this year, we have a new shared task with prizes! Website/CfP: sites.google.com/site/nlpandc... Deadlines: March 5 (direct), March 24 (pre-reviewed ARR) #NLProc #CompSocialSci #ComputationalSocialScience #ACL2026NLP @aclmeeting.bsky.social

Extremely impressive answer by Opus - the strategy all Weber games is actually obfuscation

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The searchable database of books included in the Anthropic settlement might prove useful for nullifying previous results... This paper on detecting LLM-generated code trained part of their model on assuming a Java book wasn't in the GPT corpus

This is was essentially Tom Griffiths' keynote this morning at COLM

This is good. Like really good.

This is v good

'Examining the effects of birth order on personality' in PNAS -> across multiple controls in three countries (UK, Germany, USA) "...we conclude that birth order does not have a lasting effect on broad personality traits outside of the intellectual domain." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Simulacra is so back!

today we will all read imbens 2021 on statistical significance and p values, which is a strong contender for having the best opening paragraph of any stats paper pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Every department chair rn:

Police brutality is bad business journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Randomized policy experiments are often assumed to be hard, expensive (financially and politically), and disliked by voters... "Collecting survey data representative of the Dutch electorate, we find clear evidence contradicting this view." doi.org/10.1093/ej/u...

I joined bsky 1 year ago to follow @electricalwsop.bsky.social ... Hope it turns out better for the rest of you