Imagine mistakenly drinking cyanide laced Flavor-Aid, thinking it was cyanide laced Kool-Aid? They must have felt so silly when they realized they had been tricked into drinking Flavor-Aid!

Another day, another study using Shapiro-Wilk to assess "normality of data", and not reporting those results (which was fine, because the outcome was dichotomized anyway, because of course it was...)

We're all well aware that "correlation does not imply causation" but few heed this warning when it comes to ratios; indeed you can find them uncritically thrown about almost everywhere

The vibe coding apps are marketing to me so hard rn. The thing is, I have to methodically specify what I need whether I write the functions or AI does it and happily I do that best by ...writing code.

I appreciate that it's staggeringly brazen, but do we think Bondi erred when she claimed to have the Epstein list then later denied it exists? I think this administration is very comfortable with protecting power structures (beyond govt) that they are a part of, and want you to know you don't matter

If you have zero education, this will sound like good advice

So it turns out that compared to centralized distribution of digital information on the web, printed material in libraries provided a kind of distributed defense against the casual whims of an authoritarian government aiming to rewrite history.

AI is an arms race for the world superpowers, and it's certainly not a competition to see who can come up with the best chatbot (like some commenters seem to think)

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Spent a big chunk of the holidays on farm projects including restoring the old hut that stands sentinel at the front of my property