has anyone ever *not* had divergent transitions on a real model with the default adapt_delta?

i was gonna joke, but telling people that english has more than 5 vowels (and they're not AEIOU) is shocking enough to some students that they never incorporate it into their knowledge of the world...

when getting predictions from brms models, does `re_formula = NA` also remove random-factor smooths?

ok, an ettiquite q: in analyzing a data set on OSF, i’ve found that a poppy result is probably much less reliable than reported in a paper (absolutely no indication of fraud or statistical malpractice). I think it’s maybe worth writing up *why*, but what’s the best first step?

acquiring multidialectal competence sets you up for surprise humorous moments no one else around you will get

Next they’ll partner with Charmin for the people who need to ask a chatbot how to wipe their ass

is it a sign of a rational market when a shoe maker says they're AI now and their stock increases (at time of writing) 700%?

At this rate, we’ll stop speaking altogether by 2050! (… this has the whiff of statistical anomaly about it, but I’ll have to dig into it later)

Three years ago I pointed out some things that were bad about AI. Basically none of them have changed. Many things have gotten worse. Among other things, the attack on labor has intensified. Here's why to resist dehumanizing your work: www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~cxjacobs/Bl...

oh shit, oh sorry! oh god i’m making it worse now? Shit, sorry!

in response to a survey asking authors if they intentionally put symbolism in their novels, Iris Murdoch said “There is much more symbolism in ordinary life than some critics seem to realize.”

Microsoft, to its billions of customers

fwiw, i started drafting my blog post about LLMs weeks ago and only got around to finishing it a few days ago. its timing with the AI guy crashing out is completely coincidental

I’ve been thinking about the construal of LLMs as tools for research automation, and as someone who’s put a lot of effort into research facilitation tools, I don’t agree

Me and my sister’s Baldur’s Gate 3 campaign ended with her unleashing Artistry of War directly into Volo’s face at the after party, to which the game responded by cutting directly to the end credits

i’m curious about how AI cliches happen. Is “it’s not just X, it’s Y” just the median rhetorical device in rhetorical training data? does something about the reenforcement training, or the system prompt predispose this frame?

i don’t think being the governor of california licenses you to use the f slur like this

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

potential fixes - belly beasties - tummy buddies - colorectal compadres - the abdominal horde

this will also be true for my D&D campaign. next bad guy has 6 HP, 25 AC, makes 4 attacks each turn, each doing 4d10 psychic damage

In my multiplayer BG3 campaign, I romanced Laezel for the first time, and the story is very sweet and also too 🌶️ for me post about on here. It’s going to be tough when my character turns into a mind flayer, but that’s the check i’ve been writing.

an interesting expression of what the kids call “bean soup theory”. Interpreting public, undirected posts on social media as if they were a direct communication to the reader.

life hack: shops with codes for the bathroom door, save them in your password manager

give me a perception check

In 3 days (2 long rests) Shuuv_11 has gotten nearly 60 elixirs of hill giant strength out of Auntie Ethel

🚨 Shuuv_8 has left Act 1 🚨

i actually don't think AI can write better R code than me

I too never said yes to Epstein. For this, I'll modestly don my hero's mantle

my best understanding is that A “cure for cancer” is impossible because our everyday concept of “cancer” is vast constellation of diseases with multiple causes and treatments, and the fact this is the “what if, then what” being put forward indicates how unserious the conversation is

excited to see @nerd4cities.bsky.social at the Kentucky Theater this evening!

arriving at the function

I haven't always taught about classes in my CompLing courses, but it's increasingly clear to me that I oughta. Hopefully this kind of thing will be approachable?

uncommon kentucky state legislative W

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i want to beat Baldur’s Gate 3 on Honour Mode. I started off with a monk I named “Shuuv” and every time a campaign ends, i remake them with a number appended. I’m now on Shuuv6

The thing I love about Baldur's Gate 3, especially in multiplayer, it's the most I've felt in a video game that you can get up to hijinx that you may or may not be able to get away with

The LLMs people are using as therapists

It's a Motte & Bailey strategy. Their broad desire is the elimination of trans people from public life, and they've decided the easiest issues to toxify are sports & youths. The consequences have already expanded beyond that, and poison the discourse about the veracity of trans people.

I'll take it dialed.gg

When I teach anything comp/quant, a lot of my time goes into devops. I've learned the basics of Docker, devcontainers, and gotten a lot better at GitHub actions teaching these courses

tonight gmail suggested an entire email response about vowel analysis that - suggests using a non-existent R package - an analysis approach that is certainly *worse* than what was already being done. 🙃

new-fave now supports both IPA and CMU label sets out of the box

Question: For a CompLing course that's includes intro-to-programming, I'm asking them to write a function (without regex) that returns True if a string is a^nb, False otherwise. Is that... too challenging?

I thought my architect friend was being hyperbolic when she said that we should stop putting indoor plumbing in houses... But I'm starting to agree

Chomsky on Foucault: “I'd never met anyone who was so totally amoral” I guess Foucault didn’t retain that distinction forever

I'm grateful not to have any former academic advisors in the Epstein files.

i’d rant about the priority given to clearing snow from car infrastructure… except it seems like the city has also sort of given up on that?

Free access dataset of co-registered Ultrasound and EMA speech data. 200 sentences. Just requires free demo version of AAA software. articulateinstruments.com/ema-ultrasou...

i really need to know if these academics with emails in the files were using the institutional email addresses.

is there a term for a “Perfect February” that fits exactly in the calendar?