Charles Hofacker

Teaches marketing analytics and research in the @FSUBiz school @floridastate when not on a #bicycle

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Someone I know tried to use Jumpspeak for language acquisition. What a miserable user experience. No instructions, and the speech recognition piece simply failed every single time. Dear live human language instructors. Never fear.

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The last major reduction in C02 happened due to a massive die off https://t.co/TMnWdWVsMU

[Charles Hofacker @chofack]

"I don’t think it’s AI that’s going to take away your job. It’s the people who know AI and how to use AI effectively that’s going to take away your job." -- Beena Ammanath, quoted in Quartz

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Lunar landing today by a private company https://t.co/IePFkqn76V

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I hate it when that happens https://t.co/YgEimgibLH

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Scary https://t.co/kjirfgPw0f

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You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows or anything else for that matter https://t.co/DGiimdleXK

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"[…] the probability of an event is not a quality of the event itself, but a mere name for the degree of ground which we, or someone else, have for expecting it." -- John Stuart Mill

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"It is a crime to spend a million dollars on data collection and then do a five-dollar statistical analysis" -- Andrew Gelman

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https://t.co/afkhrXpVby Generative AI might be a pretty cool way to create stimulus materials for lab studies

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Is that the sound of ice cracking? https://t.co/j6fBLwUYwS

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Google offering 20Gbps Internet service. Now I can download everyone's outrage way faster! https://t.co/qSkmBgfn5h

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No causation without manipulation

[Charles Hofacker @chofack]

[…] the probability of an event is not a quality of the event itself, but a mere name for the degree of ground which we, or someone else, have for expecting it.

-- John Stuart Mill

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A second Kuiper belt? https://t.co/kirQgCUaA7

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"... at Google scale, there are machines, disks, and hard drives failing every minute..." https://t.co/I49dbGrtdj

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Well OK then https://t.co/d7Wz5SKaBM

[Charles Hofacker @chofack]

Fun but long description of why we will continue to see power law distributions in popular culture https://t.co/8eNnHHAs3g

[Charles Hofacker @chofack]

Data analysis is what happens when you are busy making other data analysis plans

[Charles Hofacker @chofack]

A vendor request to clear your cache is some combination of blowing you off and bad software design on their part