Garett Foster

Mostly just statistics and D&D.

He/They

All opinions are solely my own (except retweets, which are obviously my own and somebody else's)

[Ravi Mangla @ravi_mangla]

If your candidate of choice only appears every four years, that’s not the leader of a movement. That’s a cicada.

[Dr. Jen Golbeck @jengolbeck]

🧵Next week, you will see people using something called Benford's Law to try to prove election fraud.
⛔️These people are wrong⛔️
I am a scientist who has published on Benford's Law. Let me tell you what it is and why what they are doing is mathematically incorrect. 1/

[Michael Hartl @mhartl]

I feel like this may prove to be the most prescient cartoon of the 21st century.

[Aram Zucker-Scharff | @[email protected] @Chronotope]

The extremely dumb thing about this, like your spellchecker getting worse, is that we had perfectly good specialized models for this purpose that were quite effective and now everyone is paying more for non specialized models for the same tasks, that are worse.

[Robert Komaniecki @Komaniecki_R]

That didn’t take long

[Justin T. Pickett @JustinTPickett]

Maybe the most powerful figure I’ve seen this year: the racial gap in tickets from speed cameras vs. officer stops.

https://t.co/LarBFyfeo4

[SCP-8242 @YungHigue]

Go to Settings → Privacy and Safety → Data Sharing → Grok to turn it off.

[Bharat Ramamurti @BharatRamamurti]

If you have ever lost time and money because companies made it really hard to cancel recurring subscriptions, you should know that the Biden-Harris Administration and the FTC are ending that once and for all.

[UNICEF @UNICEF]

There is no safe place for children in Gaza.

This shameful violence against children must end now.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Academia isn’t about fame, or money, or approval. It’s about downloading as many pdfs as you can before you die

[Gnome Anne May Perceive Me @annethegnome]

Talking to senior leadership is so strange because you have to treat them like they’re the smartest person in every room AND functionally illiterate

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

1: AI is hallucinating events, historical figures, entire concepts on Wikipedia

2: a task force of Wikipedia editors is detecting and deleting this stuff

https://t.co/PlfzVCZd4P

[Superconformal Hassaan @Hassaan_PHY]

How Nobel Prizes will be given in the future 😑
#Physics #NobelPrize #NobelPrize2024 #scicomm

[gore vidal sassoon @GilroyMusic]

The scientists after conducting the prison experiment:

[Tim Curry @NotTheTimCurry]

Ah the ‘is Rocky Horror problematic’ chat. Through a 2024 lens - of course it is. But babies, being gay was *illegal* in England 6 years before Rocky was first staged in ‘73.

It was brave, bold & brilliant for its time. Look beyond the end of your own nose, just briefly. Please.

[Nick Desideri @NickDesideri]

Forest Park is more talented and beautiful 💕

[Vega Shah @dr_alphalyrae]

we’re not quitting science, we’re quitting academia. I am still very much in science and will remain here forever

[Garett Foster @WordsofGarett]

I feel seen

[Gnome Anne May Perceive Me @annethegnome]

oh my GOD I wish I just ate ice cream like a NORMAL PERSON but nOoOooOo I signed up for a course to learn Python FUCK MY LIFE

[Mayor Tishaura O. Jones Archived @stlmayor47]

St. Louis is hosting NCAA championships in 2025, 2026, AND 2027! #STL