Nic Weber
@nmw.bsky.social
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Associate Professor @ UW Computational Social Science
too many polecats not enough deacons
11 days ago
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"do you have 5 minutes to chat?"
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11 days ago
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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...
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HoopFlow
NBA data analytics platform focused on Game Flow and advanced performance metrics.
https://hoopflow.limboy.me/?tab=games&game_id=0022500456
26 days ago
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about 1 month ago
β¨The NLP+CSS workshop is returning to ACL 2026!β¨ 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
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NLP+CSS Workshops
https://www.pexels.com/photo/group-hand-fist-bump-1068523/
https://sites.google.com/site/nlpandcss/
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Extremely impressive answer by Opus - the strategy all Weber games is actually obfuscation
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2 months ago
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reposted by
Nic Weber
Kenny Joseph
2 months ago
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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
3 months ago
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This is was essentially Tom Griffiths' keynote this morning at COLM
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4 months ago
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This is good. Like really good.
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4 months ago
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This is v good
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5 months ago
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'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/...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1506451112
6 months ago
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Simulacra is so back!
6 months ago
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reposted by
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Rafe Meager (they/them)
10 months ago
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...
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Every department chair rn:
10 months ago
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Police brutality is bad business
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Estimating the Negative Credit Impacts of Police-involved Fatalities - Tatyana Guzman, Benjamin Y. Clark, 2025
George Floyd's killing in Minneapolis spotlighted the role of police-involved fatalities that cause immeasurable harm to victimsβ families and communities,...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10911421241250088?casa_token=etlc9vJkFxwAAAAA%3AixNbfZGB8jpV-ykAp8HfgeLnONVzqzx4ictGVWP0SXn4kWU355z0-ObQmlclw55DgYOyTpWIwcxI"We
10 months ago
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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...
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Who's Afraid of Policy Experiments?
Abstract. In many public policy areas, randomised policy experiments can greatly contribute to our knowledge of the effects of policies and can thus help t
https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueae090
12 months ago
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I joined bsky 1 year ago to follow
@electricalwsop.bsky.social
... Hope it turns out better for the rest of you
about 1 year ago
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