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I help people make better decisions with their data.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

Sorry, let me see if I understand this: Andrew Tate was arrested by Romanian police today on charges of sex trafficking after he put out a video response in anger following Greta Thunberg nuking him from orbit because the video featured a pizza box that revealed his location.

[Retraction Watch @RetractionWatch]

That paper with the ‘T’ error bars was just retracted.
https://t.co/r8qY8rLgX3

[Sam Altman @sama]

ChatGPT is incredibly limited, but good enough at some things to create a misleading impression of greatness.

it's a mistake to be relying on it for anything important right now. it’s a preview of progress; we have lots of work to do on robustness and truthfulness.

[Markus @vdw_markus]

This just in: twitter uses “databases” and “models” to manage “content policies”

[Kristen Ruby @sparklingruby]

BREAKING: Former Twitter employee shares exclusive details with me on AI, Access to DMs, and more.

Thread below ⬇️

[Markus @vdw_markus]

10% as good is often still a good deal when it’s 1% the cost

[Lauren Wilford @lauren_wilford]

a YouTube comment about the way AI destroyed the field of translation years ago

[Eigil Fjeldgren Rischel - abstr/acc @Ayegill]

Fuck it. I've read too many stupid takes about dall-e - I'm now pro-stealing from artists.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

No one I know is against diplomacy with Putin to end his invasion of Ukraine. And no one I know has a workable, realistic strategy for achieving or even starting that process. Shouting "more diplomacy" is not a strategy. It is not "realism."

[steven t. piantadosi @spiantado]

Yes, ChatGPT is amazing and impressive. No, @OpenAI has not come close to addressing the problem of bias. Filters appear to be bypassed with simple tricks, and superficially masked.

And what is lurking inside is egregious.

@Abebab @sama
tw racism, sexism.

[Markus @vdw_markus]

What database are you accessing that reports on the rates of chronic disease millions of years ago?

[Carnivore Aurelius ©🥩 ☀️🦙 @AlpacaAurelius]

we've been eating carbs, fats, red meat and sugar for 100s - millions of years...but it's only in the last 50 years that chronic disease has skyrocketed from < 20% of people to over 60%.

Something is poisoning us and it's not those things.

[Sam Sykes @SamSykesSwears]

My fool godson, William, went down to the basement to get a snack four days ago
I told him--every time I tell him--to COUNT the stairs as he goes down. There's only 12. If it goes to 13, come back up and try again. And don't follow the thing singing down there
But does he listen?

[The Chaser @chaser]

Elon has blocked verified accounts from changing their names...

[Maarten van Smeden @MaartenvSmeden]

True. But who is to blame when most of science is produced by people who have been woefully undereducated/underprepared to conduct science that gives reliable answers about the questions needed to be answered in healthcare, and for whom careers may still depend on "output"

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

Google insiders explain why Google launches many products and then abandons them.

Hint: It has to do with chasing promotions. 🤦‍♂️

[Markus @vdw_markus]

@MaartenvSmeden Would you say that the death rate of kittens is independently associated with the rate of twitter fallacies

[Markus @vdw_markus]

✅ Google sheets lifehack:
👉 Use excel

[Gavin Buckingham @DrGBuckingham]

Here's a nice graph for your lectures on #Datavisualization

[Markus @vdw_markus]

"I'm a creative. I'm safe"

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

Not gonna lie, didn't expect "illustrators" to be one of the first human jobs that artificial intelligence completely displaces but here we are

[Towards Data Science @TDataScience]

"The almost paradoxical concept of deterministic chaos describes systems which are so sensitive to initial conditions that long term forecasting becomes impossible."
Read more from Jason Platt's first TDS piece.
https://t.co/3Y1eJqX6Ur

[Sergey Levine @svlevine]

Robots can give hands and eyes to language models. This is another step along the (long) road toward general purpose robots that we've been pursuing at Google that combines multi-task policies, language, and long-horizon tasks: https://t.co/zssoUzPcgp
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