Posts by tdverstynen@neuromatch.social
 (DIR) Post #AU3ENiPasoIZ1Gi2qW by tdverstynen@neuromatch.social
       2023-03-27T19:46:16Z
       
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       Okay, this is INCREDIBLY cool!https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.28.530502v1
       
 (DIR) Post #AU3ItSrccoDfsjDKU4 by tdverstynen@neuromatch.social
       2023-03-27T20:41:34Z
       
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       @fcktheworld587 What are the ethical considerations per se?
       
 (DIR) Post #AU8Vu0bzQC2Zk9I8n2 by tdverstynen@neuromatch.social
       2023-03-30T09:00:51Z
       
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       @stux That’s because it is.
       
 (DIR) Post #AU8Zlte1qBwpdRdHMG by tdverstynen@neuromatch.social
       2023-03-30T09:44:13Z
       
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       @stux agreed
       
 (DIR) Post #AUXUxCc4QDEX9NePke by tdverstynen@neuromatch.social
       2023-04-11T10:18:05Z
       
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       @ceperez Psychology, specifically cognitive science, makes the distinction between these very clearly.
       
 (DIR) Post #AZfAFdKIZGxsz0IfIm by tdverstynen@neuromatch.social
       2023-09-11T16:18:49Z
       
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       If we are at the "might be gay" stage of our current moral panic, then we might as well ban any book that references Jesus."Might be gay" book ban:https://www.rawstory.com/christian-the-hugging-lion/Suspicions about Jesus's sexuality:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexuality_of_Jesus#Homosexuality#florida #bookbans #moralpanic #desantis
       
 (DIR) Post #AZfGLFpfQl3da12Ib2 by tdverstynen@neuromatch.social
       2023-09-11T17:32:33Z
       
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       @jbowen I mean you joke, but I’m pretty sure that this is the criterion used by the Florida Department of Education
       
 (DIR) Post #AbJn1sGozHaPOUdImm by tdverstynen@neuromatch.social
       2023-10-30T20:07:54Z
       
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       @taylorlorenz Bad news to everyone studying isomers.
       
 (DIR) Post #AbTLlZikV9tmsU75dI by tdverstynen@neuromatch.social
       2023-11-04T12:47:53Z
       
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       I am sick of this genre of “we must correct the liberal bias in academia” opinion pieces.https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/04/opinion/liberal-universities-republicans.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare So I’m supposed to teach that climate change isn’t happening or isn’t being caused by human activity despite the overwhelming evidence that it is happening and we are responsible?I’m supposed to teach that homosexual behavior is abnormal and unnatural, despite it being observed across many species (including other primates) and having a well documented prevalence in human history?I’m supposed to teach that Reaganomics allows for uplifting everyone despite the overwhelming evidence that it only increases income inequality?I’m supposed to teach that our history of systemic racism either did not exist or does not persist in causing social harm to this day, despite the overwhelming evidence for the generational impacts of practices like redlining and race biases in healthcare and the criminal justice system?I’m supposed to teach that Trump won the 2020 election and was disenfranchised because of some deep state plot, despite the complete lack of evidence (and the counter evidence that he and his supporters knew they lost the election)?Maybe the reason that conservative positions do not get traction in academia (and gets consistently flagged by fact-checking services) isn’t some nefarious conspiracy to suppress conservative voices. Maybe it’s just because most of what counts as conservative ideologies today are premised on non-empirical assumptions or flat out lies.
       
 (DIR) Post #AcllH8qQ9Za2WbLD2e by tdverstynen@neuromatch.social
       2023-12-13T14:16:34Z
       
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       Academia is no longer about producing knowledge. We produce content for publishers. But unlike other industries, we pay both to produce and consume said content.It’s all a farce, that we all know is a farce, but we play it anyway because the entire system is structured to incentive the farce itself. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03974-8
       
 (DIR) Post #AdbknANDj8IabMR9vc by tdverstynen@neuromatch.social
       2024-01-07T14:11:15Z
       
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       A limoncello
       
 (DIR) Post #AmrqyFRAlsnG8B9d20 by tdverstynen@neuromatch.social
       2024-10-10T15:15:49Z
       
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       As someone who works with a lot of data, the estimation of the margin of error in most polling aggregators annoys me.Take this summary from the Washington Post as an example. The margin of error is the 90% confidence interval from the *entire* period (5/48 polls fall outside it). But the variance of the distribution is clearly decreasing with time, both because sample density increases and the true variance seems to be contracting. Is it reasonable to assume that margin of error is stationary? I sincerely doubt that is.
       
 (DIR) Post #AoVK9sHQWJER7aNfGK by tdverstynen@neuromatch.social
       2024-11-28T14:08:19Z
       
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       This is simultaneously messed up and a pretty decent reflection on the state of our current society. (gift link)https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/nyregion/banana-auction-sothebys.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dU4.SjXo.v7GQ6YfXfi90&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb