Mel Andrews

I’m not like the other Bayesians. I’m different.
Thinks about philosophy of science, AI ethics, machine learning, models, & metascience. postdoc @ Princeton.

[Mel Andrews @bayesianboy]

My article on AI for science, in which I characterize a deviant notion of scientific objectivity rooted in the impossible ideal of theory-free inference, is available now open-access in Erkenntnis https://t.co/zRfOyOdFZy

[Mel Andrews @bayesianboy]

Other events with @leifweatherby this week at @PrincetonCDH

[Mel Andrews @bayesianboy]

This Thursday at Labyrinth Books I will be in conversation with Leif Weatherby @leifweatherby discussing reasoning, meaning, and anthropomorphism in language models. Please stop by if you are in @Princeton!

[Mel Andrews @bayesianboy]

First submit of the term, let me know if you want to talk data models (or read a draft!).

[Mel Andrews @bayesianboy]

“Who wants to see the new Love Island?”

Quiet babe my favorite show is on:

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……In perfectly unrelated news, have an advert…….

[Bijon Mehta @bijonmehta]

A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It. https://t.co/Onh2jYveYF

[Bijon Mehta @bijonmehta]

A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It. https://t.co/Onh2jYveYF

[Mel Andrews @bayesianboy]

Do I have any friends out there in forensic accounting?

[Mel Andrews @bayesianboy]

The use of major open problems in mathematics as AI benchmarks mistakes the nature and aims of mathematics: “solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight.” Declaration from Terence Tao: https://t.co/jLXL6KY9NY

[Mel Andrews @bayesianboy]

You can now read this invaluable book on methods in philosophy of science open-access. Find me in Chapter 16! https://t.co/9WRHtSSSy5

[maybe: leif weatherby @leifweatherby]

Would we call what OpenAI did to Buckmaster “aligned” behavior?

[Talia Ringer 🕊🪬 @TaliaRinger]

To be clear, the bad parts here:

1. Telling someone to drop an author just because he is a competitor with your company is pressuring him to commit academic fraud!

[Mel Andrews @bayesianboy]

@star_lings am paraphrasing linked article

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Possibly a significant addendum to the LLM advancements on Navier-Stokes. The problem is not restricted to the model’s potential reproduction of training data, either. A team at OpenAI was prompting their models with the mathematicians’ unpublished work without their knowledge.

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https://t.co/98gQ3XRLJL

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https://t.co/G9IM6djKxn

[Mel Andrews @bayesianboy]

@star_lings correct. do you have reason to doubt the authenticity of the statement?

[Mel Andrews @bayesianboy]

@philosophyny Large-scale political, economic, and educational reform.

[Mel Andrews @bayesianboy]

The oldest natural history museum in the nation, the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, will cease to exist by the end of the month. The museum’s operating costs are half of 1% of Drexel’s budget. Drexel’s president pockets 2.8 million annually.

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@GordonBrianR Evidently not.

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What’s going on, @DrexelUniv?

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News story here. https://t.co/JkrwJH68PP