Barry Quinn

I prepare students for the future by teaching them to experiment, be resilient, be humble and stay curious. I research to stay curious, humble, learn new things

[Barry Quinn @Con0metrix]

AT LAST professional standards for data science and a route for professional accreditation via Alliance for Data Science Professionals @QUBManagement @byrongraham @alanytics https://t.co/FoteRA0GVC

[Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn]

This should not be legal

[Kevin Patrick Murphy @sirbayes]

Google releases LLMs integrated into Gmail and Docs. Woohoo! https://t.co/foGuPTH0Lk

[David Spiegelhalter @d_spiegel]

I'm lucky enough to have seen this already, and it's brilliant. Far too good to just let 9-13 year-olds read it

[Barry Quinn @Con0metrix]

Let’s cast a critical eye over business ideas from ChatGPT via @FT
A fantastic simile for chatgpt in Finance… Spoiler it’s an options contract https://t.co/aZCJk6mqlZ

[Kevin Patrick Murphy @sirbayes]

Interesting article from Chomsky. Ignoring "Universal grammar" etc, I think his main point is that LLMs are not learning parsimonious models of the world (in the MDL sense), and thus they can generate but not make causal explanations.
https://t.co/iChELHlCeV

[Barry Quinn @Con0metrix]

Research: Publication bias and the canonization of false facts https://t.co/51LcG7GzYi
Love this type of simulated reality!

[Barry Quinn @Con0metrix]

@ProfJohnTurner @QUBManagement Like most cats, it owns @QUBManagement we do not own it! I think that disapproving eyes say it all... "Prof WHO??"

[Aine Gallagher @ainegallagher0]

Lack of affordable childcare is one observable factor contributing to the #genderpaygap, there are many other unobservables, yet in NI we still don't have access to the 30 hours of free childcare available in the rest of the UK #stormontdobetter

[Aine Gallagher @ainegallagher0]

@karinadoorley I'm also following @PayGapApp which is particularly busy on this day when lots of organisations use #IWD2023 as a marketing opportunity without taking steps to address the #genderpaygap

[Aine Gallagher @ainegallagher0]

On #IWD2023 instead of observing all the corporate virtue signalling, I've listened to this excellent podcast about the realities of the #genderpaygap for women in Ireland with @karinadoorley and Donal O'Neill

[The Athletic @TheAthletic]

From Aston Villa's weirdly disconnected midfield to Nottingham Forest playing passes near their corner flags, here's what we can learn from analysing passing

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

A boss looks for reasons to say no. A leader looks for reasons to say yes.

A boss issues orders and demands loyalty. A leader gives direction and takes responsibility.

A boss expects to be the most important person in the room. A leader makes everyone feel important.

[Omar Khattab @lateinteraction]

Introducing Demonstrate–Search–Predict (𝗗𝗦𝗣), a framework for composing search and LMs w/ up to 120% gains over GPT-3.5.

No more prompt engineering.❌

Describe a high-level strategy as imperative code and let 𝗗𝗦𝗣 deal with prompts and queries.🧵

https://t.co/2265Ii0vCS

[Barry Quinn @Con0metrix]

I just supported Tidy Finance with R on @buymeacoffee! 🎉

Tidy Finance with R is building https://t.co/7IFXViTjYx for everyone.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Good article on LLMs at Forbes.

The media are starting to agree with my much-criticized statements about LLMs.

"LLMs as they exist today will never replace Google Search. Why not? In short, because today’s LLMs make stuff up."

https://t.co/Cngp2Zyisq

[David Spiegelhalter @d_spiegel]

this is a very useful review (certainly for me, lots here I didn't know)

[Kevin Patrick Murphy @sirbayes]

My recent talk at UBC+SFU on "The 4 pillars of ML: prediction, decision, discovery, generation" is now available at https://t.co/6sqORd7p5R. (This is slightly more polished than the UBC version at https://t.co/4iKQJn8U6X)