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Biostatistician. Baritone.
Product of more than one country.
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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 37 min
You shall not pass!
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Constantine von Hoffman @curseyoukhan.bsky.social · 2 hr
A moment of silence for a hero. apnews.com/article/buxt...
Tuskegee syphilis study whistleblower Peter Buxtun has died at age 86apnews.com The whistleblower who exposed the Tuskegee syphilis study that left hundreds of Black men untreated has died at age 86.
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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 19 hr
I wrote an unnecessarily complicated thing about comparing two means notstatschat.rbind.io/2024/07/16/a...
A Bayesian t-test, again - Biased and Inefficientnotstatschat.rbind.io
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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 19 hr
I wrote an unnecessarily complicated thing about comparing two means notstatschat.rbind.io/2024/07/16/a...
A Bayesian t-test, again - Biased and Inefficientnotstatschat.rbind.io
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Michael Plank @michaelplanknz.bsky.social · a day
Very nice readable summary of this new paper estimating contact rates and reproduction number using the UK Covid contact tracing app: michellekendall.github.io/2024/07/11/D... Paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Drivers of epidemic dyamics from daily digital COVID measurementsmichellekendall.github.io A brief look at the findings of our recent Science paper.
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Very Very Common Mike Dunford @questauthority.bsky.social · a day
After reading just the definition section: This is a catastrophically bad bill - and I'm saying that coming from a very different position than Prof. Lemley when it comes to AI training and copyright. Also: It's critical to keep in mind that there's big money on ALL sides of AI discourse.
Avatar Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 3 days
Very unfortunate bill pending in the Senate right now would make it illegal to train AI systems, bypassing fair use and all the pending lawsuits under existing law chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2024/07/12/s...
Senators propose COPIED Act – does it supplant the Copyright Act?chatgptiseatingtheworld.com Senators Cantwell, Blackburn, and Heinrich just introduced a bill cleverly titled the Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act (COPIED ACT). As they summarize: Cr…
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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 2 days
See tracks, expect delays
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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 2 days
WTF is this shit and why is it reprinted all the time. Here's what the report actually said:
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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 2 days
Modestly interesting maths fact: when the mean of a Binomial distribution is an integer, it's equal to the median
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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 2 days
There are people on Mastodon who profess to think that references eg to Twitter as The Bad Place are made primarily to get past their keyword filters and I just can't even.
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Patron saint of knife-sharpeners & librarians @daisyrazor.bsky.social · 3 days
If you need a break from...everything...there are so many bears on the bear cam right now: www.youtube.com/live/d1YoGAx...
Brooks Falls - Katmai National Park, Alaska 2024 powered by EXPLORE.orgwww.youtube.com **Chat rolls are on 7am - 5 pm PT from Monday through Sunday.Brooks Falls is on solar power and will be live whenever we have enough sun. Brooks Falls in Ala...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 4 days
My personal experience at bluesky has been fantastic, much of the good of pre-Musk Twitter and none of the bad. Yet I’ve never felt as pessimistic about the future of this app as I do right now, watching another important Black voice get run off the platform. Seriously, what the fuck, people?
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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 5 days
How to cover Leonard Cohen without a voice like someone set fire to a double bass youtu.be/07vWYzfuT9Q?...
Alexandra Leavingyoutu.be Provided to YouTube by MNRK Music GroupAlexandra Leaving · Patricia O'Callaghan · Sienna DahlenMatador: The songs of Leonard Cohen℗ 2012 Marquis ClassicsRele...
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The Aotearoa Weekend @te-mutunga-wiki.bsky.social · 5 days
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 5 days
A good summary of why many of us in drug discovery are unhappy with the recent FDA approvals of anti-amyloid antibodies:
Does It Work? Does it Do Harm? And More Basic Questions.www.science.org
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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 6 days
Pre-industrial period: let's pretend the posterior is Normal Modern period: Bayesian stats lets you fit realistically complex models to natural phenomena without compromise Post-modern: let's maximise the ELBO to a Gaussian variational approximation
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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 6 days
A new wind in Britain "Ignore all previous instructions" Mandarins fall #tangerine #haiku
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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 7 days
Ah haha oh god, VUW English Department is closing its Facebook page because Meta AI is automatically responding to comments there like it is the actual English Department. I don't actually know how this is not illegal.
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 8 days
Yeah because the White House was working on a bill to help those with Parkinson’s disease that was signed this week. This is literal far right disinformation from the New York Times.
Avatar The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8 days
Breaking News: A Parkinson’s expert visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, according to official visitor logs. The administration has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease.
Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Monthswww.nytimes.com The White House has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease and that there has been no reason to update the most recent testing, conducted in February.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: The Birthday Beast @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 8 days
So as per Barnes & Noble, the 'Handbook on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence' release date has been moved to this week. For a sense of why this book is worth your time, here are pre-prints of the Introduction (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....) & my chapter (pages.charlotte.edu/damien-p-wil...)
Handbook on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligencewww.e-elgar.com This engaging Handbook identifies and critically examines the moral opportunities and challenges typically attributed to artificial intelligence. It provides a comprehensive overview and examination o...
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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 8 days
Jo Walton's summaries are really good.
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Jo Walton read 25 wildly varied books last month--come discuss! And congrats to @bluejo.bsky.social on her upcoming induction to the Canadian SF & Fantasy Hall of Fame!!! reactormag.com/jo-waltons-r...
Jo Walton's Reading List: June 2024 - Reactorreactormag.com From Chabon, Griffith, and Parker to female philosophers, Japanese ghost stories, and George Eliot, Jo reads about everything, one book at a time!
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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 9 days
"May your fans ship and chatter": traditional Fremen curse on self-important authors
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NZ Council for Civil Liberties @nzccl.org.nz · 10 days
Facial recognition and the NZ Police. Webinar with Andrew Chen from the NZ Police Tech Assurance team discussing the issues around police use of facial recognition technology. Noon, Wednesday July 10th (this week!) Register here: nzccl.org.nz/10th-july-20...
10th July 2024 - Webinar: Facial recognition and the NZ Policenzccl.org.nz Interested in how facial recognition technology (FRT) might be used in policing? What are the ethical considerations in using FRT for location tracking? Is it ok to scrape social media to collect phot...
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Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 10 days
Sliced bread first went on sale 96 years ago today and — here’s the fun bit — was promoted as being the greatest thing since WRAPPED bread.
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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 10 days
At least when PhD theses were measured in kilograms your pencil didn't need recharging half-way through reading them
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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 10 days
My favorite example that trademarks are for some (typically narrow) area, even when they don't say so.
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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 10 days
If you see this post a bird: #labellfail
Avatar Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social · 10 days
If you see this, post a bird.
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The Aotearoa Weekend @te-mutunga-wiki.bsky.social · 12 days
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.bsky.social · 12 days
Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.
(1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" •www.blackpast.org On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the D...