Jonathan Huck

pretty graphs and petty commentary

[Jonathan Huck @huckjona]

Tornados are scored on a 5pt Likert scale ranging from “my roof lost a few shingles” to “all that’s left of my house is a few shingles”

[Jonathan Huck @huckjona]

@cremieuxrecueil Sounds like Hans van der Maas’ mutualism theory of intelligence, though by that account I’d expect the prediction to go both ways

[Jonathan Huck @huckjona]

@TheGreatB00ks Just picked up a copy of David Mendelsohn’s translation. Anything noteworthy about that one compared to the others?

[Jonathan Huck @huckjona]

@local0ptimist This sounds fun

[Jonathan Huck @huckjona]

I'd like to join @predict_addict's #mavenconformalprediction because I have a condition where I dislike point estimates without prediction intervals.

[Valeriy M., PhD, MBA, CQF @predict_addict]

🎉 I'm giving away a free spot in my next Applied Conformal Prediction course! 🏆

To enter, tweet why you want to join and use #mavenconformalprediction.

Don’t forget to tag me! Best post submitted before October 31st wins! 🚀

Looking forward to your entries!

[Jonathan Huck @huckjona]

@connerdelights Michael Sugrue’s lectures on Plato’s dialogues are excellent

[Jonathan Huck @huckjona]

Typical academic paper:
Theory A proposes everything is A
Theory B proposes everything is B
Our groundbreaking theory proposes things are sometimes A and sometimes B

[Jonathan Huck @huckjona]

@MishaTeplitskiy People realized they can study humanities without paying 5 figures per year on tuition

[Jonathan Huck @huckjona]

@MatthewBJane @bmwiernik @ianhussey Stack Overflow before the Internet

[Jonathan Huck @huckjona]

@PhDemetri Cassandra of Troy was a data scientist

[Jonathan Huck @huckjona]

@AhleahMilesIO There's a team at WGU building an open skills taxonomy https://t.co/sjNvEEUBE4

[Jonathan Huck @huckjona]

How a day in the U.S. compares to the "global human day": more TV and less farming #TidyTuesday

[Kelton Minor @keltonminor]

If time is the coin of life, how do people spend it?⌛️

🚨 Our new @PNASNews article “The Global Human Day” integrates time-use data from hundreds of datasets to provide a global glimpse of what people are doing on earth. Work led by William Fajzel 🌐 1/

https://t.co/7qANDhGqsp

[Jonathan Huck @huckjona]

@amazingmap I fixed it

[Jonathan Huck @huckjona]

@RobertHaisfield If I remember 12 correctly, it's that heavy lifts require ramp-up time, which can be reduced with effective use of intermediate packets

[Jonathan Huck @huckjona]

Reflecting on labor unions and playing with the `geofacet` package for #TidyTuesday

[Jonathan Huck @huckjona]

@Conaw PCP

[Jonathan Huck @huckjona]

Examining copyright law for this week's #TidyTuesday https://t.co/yYGKw4atSQ

[Laura London @lauralondon_]

This goes so hard

[Jonathan Huck @huckjona]

Elegant explanation of why starting prompts with "you are a causal inference assistant" improves results: the distribution of words in documents about causal inference differs from that of the complete training set, so conditioning on that focuses the LLM response.

[Gaia Dempsey @fianxu]

You're invited: Join a @Metaculus-hosted technical talk exploring the causal reasoning abilities of LLMs, featuring @Microsoft Principal Researcher @amt_shrma and Sr. Principal Researcher Emre Kichirin. 370+ people have RSVP'd so far. Bring your questions! https://t.co/342htRc5n9

[Jonathan Huck @huckjona]

@emollick Any evidence this result generalizes beyond groups of psychology 101 students?

[Jonathan Huck @huckjona]

Something to consider when interpreting surveys: response quality can be surprisingly low and many researchers don’t screen for it