why may chatgpt give better answers than Cursor, even when i set gpt as the engine for the latter and it has the whole project as background instead of just one script?

First time I’ve seen the rabbit/bird illusion with an actual photo. Took me just a half second to process the word in all caps…

Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites. blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-i...

Been using two monitors for many, many years. Just tried a single wide (curved 34") monitor instead. It's slightly less wide total a bit taller. It's way better. Looing at center of screen instead of to the side, no dead zone in the middle.

While in many respects the situation is dire I think it’s worth pointing out that there are multiple scientific ecosystems. Being scandalized shows that we normally live in a better functioning, privileged part of the scientific community.

Colada[128] The Best Audit Study and its interesting shortcoming datacolada.org/128

Fellow European researchers, if at all in your power, try to get your school to consider late applicants who were admitted to US programs. Hearing from many cases of admitted to top US schools who last minute realize they won't be allowed in the country.

Don't assume, plot datacolada.org/126

Feels like we should have / should now, create a single character to represent 'https://'

"In extremely rare move, Harvard revokes tenure and cuts ties with star business professor" Francesca Gino

This little devil is the cause of MSWord suddenly moving comments outside the margins into outer space where you can't see them. It somehow just started happening against my will a few months ago. Just uncheck 'enable modern comments' under preferences general, and you will regain humanity.

Clogged bathtub/shower/sink? After unsuccessfully trying my usual tricks I followed advice of handyman and poured 2 lts of Coca Cola down the drain, waited a few hours and ... ...worked like a charm 🤯

To whom it may concern: For over a year Excel and Word would sporadically crash when ... copying! (CTRL-C) Neither ChatGPT, nor Google, nor hours on online discussion boards solved this. Solution: uninstall Microsoft Teams addin for Office !

SORRY. Sorry. Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

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This chart was made in America by skilled artisans. It also provides important context for understanding our current tariff situation.

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DOGE/Musk preferentially cancelled grants and contracts to recipients in counties that voted for Harris in 2024. Among cancellations with election data available, 92.9% and 86.1% cancelled grants and contracts went to Harris counties, representing 96.6% and 92.4% of total dollar amounts.

Is there any organization with Data Colada style feedback policy - people whose work is critiqued read drafts before they're public - suggest edits, and - get to respond without any editing within post. Our policy feels outdated and am looking around Even vaguely in this spirit i'd be interested

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Grimes Slaps ‘I Bought This Before Elon Went Crazy’ Sticker On Child

Roses are red Violets are blue

Chilling report from Brown University. Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities. Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.

Looking for basic inference course/book designed for people who won't go to do research, e.g., business undergrads Practical, no math Measurement error, metric choice, regression to the mean, causality<-Yes Matrices, theorems, rich<-No I want not just simple (e.g., cartoon guide) But practical

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

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Measurement error, Nobel Prize winning research, friendly disagreements, and more.... datacolada.org/124

Just posted on SSRN, an experimental follow-up to my comment with Daniel Banki, @urisohn.bsky.social, and Robert Walatka. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...

At first glance, the paper looks pretty rigorous: Pre-registrations! Open data and materials! FDR-corrected p-values! Independent replications! So where's the problem? I suspect the answer lies in the sentence highlighted below:

#GDRI_rep Update 4: We have a new report. We reproduced the paper entitled "Parent–teacher meetings and student outcomes" by Islam @ European Economic Review. See below for links to report and author's response.

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Looking for a PhD/Postdoc in Switzerland? English speaking lab, good pay, incredible scenery. There's lots of funding calls for projects related to my work on the meta-science of measurement, error detection and trustworthiness assessment. Reach out if you're interested in writing a grant together.

Delving into a disagreement with prominent political scientists on a fundamental data-analysis question: what do you want to learn from a regression interaction? datacolada.org/123

Could Europe could ban twitter unless it is sold to a European owner?

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I was just informed that our RCT in Bangladesh has been terminated mid-way. The project we were evaluating was helping to build resilience by forming farmer groups in 225 villages and transferring critical knowledge on smart agriculture practices in areas highly affected by climate change.

Meeting on academic fraud, Oxford, 7-9th April. www.sjcfairsmeeting.com (turn VPN off if it doesn't load!) Small meeting with limited places so register now (or book an online ticket). With stunning list of speakers, plus an unconference discussion element www.sjcfairsmeeting.com/general-4

Another extraordinary exchange just now about "animus" in the court hearing on trasngender members of the military:

I'll be at Social and Behavioural Data Science Center at the University of Amsterdam for a couple of weeks. I'm giving a lecture on Monday Feb 24th that anyone is invited to and hope to meet up with some people while I'm in town to talk methods and measurement. sites.google.com/view/mellenb...

Fun paper in Journal Club today, from 1954 Participants were not given the questions but had to answer in standard multiple choice, agree/disagree, True/False, etc. I guess in 1954 the review process was a lot more expedient.

A new working paper with Daniel Banki, @urisohn.bsky.social and Robert Walatka, just submitted to SSRN. The paper is comment on Ryan Oprea's recent AER paper. The paper is processing, but you, my friends, get early entry. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I am worried that scientists will self-censor and not share their work because they view it as trivial relative to what is going on But let's not participate in the destruction of science. Please share your work unapologetically and share others' work Science matters; your science matters!

We are seeing some impact on reproducibility efforts with the transition to the new US administration. For now, I suggest that you make backups of any data that required you to actively interact with the Federal government, as there may be a delay in response times.... #openscience

Catherine Cortez Masto just casually exposing that RFK Jr. has no idea what HHS does or how it works.

Is R Studio taking forever to load for anybody else? (like 10 to 50 seconds)

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