Martyn Plummer

Statistics. Computing. Cancer Epidemiology. Public health.

[Martyn Plummer @martyn_plummer]

@DanRSMiddleton @BioMedCentral This is surveillance bias. The cancer sites "significantly" associated with COVID-19 vaccination have national screening programmes (gastric, colorectal, lung, breast) or have incidence rates strongly affected by opportunistic screening (thyroid, prostate).

[Warwick Statistics @warwickstats]

We are recruiting! Two fully funded PhD positions as part of the “Probabilistic Artificial Intelligence” hub on the mathematical foundations of AI. Further details at the link.
https://t.co/srwJmQT6yC

[Martyn Plummer @martyn_plummer]

@MarvinSchmittML @sirbayes There is also an official "popular with friends" feed that includes content liked by people that you follow. It works better than the Discover feed.

https://t.co/hfyLZTakmE

[MRC Biostatistics Unit @MRC_BSU]

If you missed our brilliant Armitage Workshop last week, you can watch recordings of the talks here👇
https://t.co/DhuEEL2gQp

[Warwick Statistics @warwickstats]

Join us! We are currently advertising two faculty positions: Assistant Professor (Computational, Methodological or Theoretical Statistics or Machine Learning) and Assistant Professor (Mathematical Finance). https://t.co/42LD5NfZPV Deadline: Jan 6th

[Martyn Plummer @martyn_plummer]

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[Martyn Plummer @martyn_plummer]

@esjesjesj It may sound like Musk has gone crazy here, but he was just explaining his belief in #TESCREAL - a bundle of philosophical ideas identified by @timnitGebru and @xriskology that are quite common in the tech world.

https://t.co/AHhsohYNCN

[Dr. Émile P. Torres (they/them) @xriskology]

I see some folks starting to use the “TESCREAL” acronym. So, here’s a short thread on what it stands for and why it’s important. 🧵

[Martyn Plummer @martyn_plummer]

@nathancofnas @AdamRutherford I don't understand what you're trying to do here. Asking people their opinion on what would happen is not the same thing as finding out what would happen. And if you wanted to do an opinion poll on social attitudes to IQ then you've got no sampling frame to interpret the results.

[horse dentist @equine__dentist]

you learn something new every day

[Martyn Plummer @martyn_plummer]

"At first sight, the criticisms of #reviewer2 seem particularly hard to satisfy, given their overall conclusion that our methods are simplistic, unrealistic, not innovative and, in any case, we should have done something else. Nevertheless, we have addressed each one of them."

[Martyn Plummer @martyn_plummer]

@DanRSMiddleton Not bad. Taking study leave this year, then I’ll be HoD next year. Do you have a teaching job lined up?

[Martyn Plummer @martyn_plummer]

@DanRSMiddleton Congratulations!

[Martyn Plummer @martyn_plummer]

@FellowshipFans @IGN Who is this mysterious grey-robed stranger who can do fire magic and is a friend to halflings? It’s a tough one.

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

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[Bruno Rodrigues @brodriguesco]

if you're a data 'anything' and wonder "why is R still a thing?" maybe this answer I wrote on Reddit will help #RStats #pydata #datascience

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

Si le populisme, le nationalisme, la xénophobie, le discours anti-migrants, l'europhobie et autre Brexit etc étaient la solution à quoi que ce soit, les conservateurs GB ne seraient pas face, demain, à la défaite la plus cuisante des 200 ans d'existence de leur parti 👇

[Lawrence Young @LawrenceYoung11]

Viruses and Cancer – From Cause to Cure https://t.co/4Cm2kHiXVt via @YouTube

[David Spiegelhalter @d_spiegel]

Still proud of this line I put into a much-cited paper about an even-more-cited paper; "After rather negative referees' reports had been received, the first author went into a massive sulk for a year" https://t.co/NCF5Lgga7e

[Daniel Jeffries @Dan_Jeffries1]

Lot of absurd takes like this on the superalignment team leaving OpenAI.

The more likely reason they left is not because Ilya and Jan saw some super advanced AI emerging that they couldn't handle but that they didn't and as the cognitive dissonance hit, OpenAI and other practical teams building real world AI are realizng this fantasy of super intelligent machines rising up and getting out of control is a waste of time, money and resources.

So they slowly and correctly starved that team of compute that could be used for more useful things like building capabilities into their products, which is what AI are, products.

[Peter Sasieni @petersasieni]

New paper shows that HPV vaccination continues to prevent over 80% of cervical cancer in women born since 1995 in England and does so across the socioeconomic spectrum https://t.co/ADEqdBibXb @WHO_Europe @HausofHilton @chrischirp @SGriffin_Lab @fascinatorfun @kallmemeg