D. Hicks
@danhicks
philosopher turned data scientist turned philosopher. enviro policy, data science, phil sci/STS, lefty stuff. UC Merced. they/them. Signal: danhicks.50
Today we're mad that Substack has made a partnership with Pangram, an AI detector that (a) has an extremely low false positive rate, (b) isn't based on "AI tells," and (c) does not itself use generative AI
Was there supposed to be something between these paragraphs? It's also blank on my nothing-disabled-nothing-blocked Safari
I see we've decided to move on to conspiracy theories and/or confusing LLM training with social media algorithms
This is what I was thinking of, from this LA Times story: www.latimes.com/california/s... We don't have test data for current students/recent applicants. Even if we started collecting them this year, we wouldn't get any outcome data until June 2028, and that's just for first-year grades.
Thinking about this some more, I suspect the DAG looks like this. Which is not great for trying to make an inference using only present data.
Habby Caturday Gonzo! Jasper had to do a ride in THE BOX todaye and he only cryed an liddolbit!
When the human wouldn't let you eat the fancy panko just because it had poison death garlic
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, the nonbinary subreddit loves the idea of transitioning into a grove of oak trees
"Magyar" is the Hungarian autonym, so this is like if Trump was losing to a patriotic campaign by Peter America
Right, plus it's produced under the direction of OMB. It's very much not bottom-up. This part is actually alarming, but I note there's no time frame or how much it's conditional on the actual Congressional appropriation, which will probably come well after the midterms.
One specific dysfunction of our society is that being responsive to criticism is treated the same way as being hostile to and dismissive of criticism