Bayesian inference of population prevalence, out now in eLife - the journal! elifesciences.org/articles/62461 Generalises from within-participant stats to estimate the replication probability of an effect for a new participant randomly chosen from the population. 1/4

Stable Diffusion is only 30 days old… a MEGA THREAD 🧵 on its rapid rise.

Wife took my mom to Canadian Embassy in Abu Dhabi for passport renewal. Mom's very old, may have dementia and has problems navigating. They would not let my wife upstairs to assist my mom. Canada, I thought old people mattered? Canada in the UAE

Wife took my mom to Canadian Embassy in Abu Dhabi for passport renewal. Mom's very old, may have dementia and has problems navigating. They would not let my wife upstairs to assist my mom. Canada, I thought old people mattered? Canada in the UAE Inclusive Aging Canadian Seniors

sourcherries.github.io/blog/posts/mas… Want to know why #numpy masked arrays are awesome for #DataScience and research?

#TodayinHistory #datavis #OTD PLAYFAIR DAY 🎂 Sep 22, 1759 William Playfair born in Dundee, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The father of modern data graphics. 1786: Invention of the line graph and bar chart 1801: Pie chart

🌍🤖🔄 Les cartes de Minard réinterprétées par l'AI de Bing à partir de leur titre, un thread absolument essentiel Et on commence avec le classique, le blockbuster, la fameuse « Carte figurative des pertes successives en hommes de l'armée française dans la campagne de Russie »

Y'all, I just discovered my new favorite principle, which explains why I'm so damn tired all the time.

Project #2: LLM Visualization So I created a web-page to visualize a small LLM, of the sort that's behind ChatGPT. Rendered in 3D, it shows all the steps to run a single token inference. (link in bio)

Why do insects circle lights? “Behaviour is the control of perception” “a control system to orient the insect’s back toward the sky but yielding maladaptive behavior when confronted with a close source of light” nature.com/articles/s4146…

My grandpa who is 85 started making this rock map of Scotland in 1992.He collected rocks during amateur geology trips over 30 years. He says it had to be geologically correct and also aesthetically pleasing.He asked if I could share online as He wants to go viral so please share

Important finding.

Github page here: github.com/troscianko/HOS…

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The frequency has the effect. Tell me the frequency and I tell you the effect.

New Anthropic research: Adding Error Bars to Evals. AI model evaluations don’t usually include statistics or uncertainty. We think they should. Read the blog post here: anthropic.com/research/stati…

Honoured to be included among this group of inspirational #WomenInSTEM - looking forward to congratulating them, and all the WXN #Top100, later this week IRL in Toronto. Thanks BMO for your support of women leaders! Rotman Research CABHI Baycrest University of Toronto McMaster University

1/ After residency at Mass General Hospital, I reported to Atlanta to meet my fellow CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Officers. I have never felt so intimidated by my peers The best and the brightest, they were star clinicians, had served in disaster zones; MD/PhDs and MSF.

In 1945, six women pulled off a computing miracle. They programmed the world’s first computer—with no manuals, no training. Then, a SINGLE assumption erased them from tech history for decades. The story of how ONE photo nearly deleted computing’s female founders: 🧵