Adarsh Mathew
@aluddite.bsky.social
Used to study networked communities online. Now I do ML Engineering & LLMs. Ted Chiang fan. Long-suffering ManUtd supporter. Has a gif problem. He/him.
Disconcerting AI 'experiments' in r/changemyview from Uni of Zurich, which should have never passed IRB.
Link to the post from the Mods: www.reddit.com/r/changemyvi...
Link to the post from the Mods: www.reddit.com/r/changemyvi...
April 27, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Disconcerting AI 'experiments' in r/changemyview from Uni of Zurich, which should have never passed IRB.
Link to the post from the Mods: www.reddit.com/r/changemyvi...
Link to the post from the Mods: www.reddit.com/r/changemyvi...
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I just read this Variety hit job in which it's clear that Disney is trying to pin the failure of Snow White on Rachel Zegler. I'm confused: Did she make the studio spend $270 million on an unasked-for remake of a 90-year-old piece of IP?
March 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I just read this Variety hit job in which it's clear that Disney is trying to pin the failure of Snow White on Rachel Zegler. I'm confused: Did she make the studio spend $270 million on an unasked-for remake of a 90-year-old piece of IP?
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A longer version of the Tufts announcement about the abduction of an international graduate student by federal authorities, circulating on Twitter and Reddit.
March 26, 2025 at 5:00 AM
A longer version of the Tufts announcement about the abduction of an international graduate student by federal authorities, circulating on Twitter and Reddit.
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These same dynamics are in play for RFK Jr. His rise, nomination, and (likely) confirmation will be not despite his spreading pseudosience and conspiracy theories about public health, but because of it.
Tulsi Gabbard's confirmation today as Director of National Intelligence isn't just despite her role in spreading false conspiracy theories and Russian disinformation denying Syrian government war atrocities, but (at least in part) BECAUSE of it. www.cnn.com/2025/02/12/p...
Senate votes to confirm Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence | CNN Politics
The Senate voted Wednesday, to confirm former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence.
www.cnn.com
February 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
These same dynamics are in play for RFK Jr. His rise, nomination, and (likely) confirmation will be not despite his spreading pseudosience and conspiracy theories about public health, but because of it.
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Someday, someone will write about how the conflation of university speech with “censorship” was used to mobilize actual government censorship.
When Stanford IT staff and a pro-diversity group shared a list of words they encouraged others not to use, it was national news, despite the fact it never represented campus policy.
When the government erases any mention, data or research related to words, will it be treated as a free speech issue?
When the government erases any mention, data or research related to words, will it be treated as a free speech issue?
February 11, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Someday, someone will write about how the conflation of university speech with “censorship” was used to mobilize actual government censorship.
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One of the biggest things I've struggled with since moving from academia to industry is not being able to share what I've learned so others can improve their own work
I want to keep people safe online. Hiding information about how to do that often seems antithetical to that goal
I want to keep people safe online. Hiding information about how to do that often seems antithetical to that goal
The amount of open source work in trust & safety is abysmal. How much time do we spend reinventing the wheel on problems that have been solved somewhere else?
Bad actors take advantage of knowledge gaps in safety systems. Open source allows us to address those goals together
Bad actors take advantage of knowledge gaps in safety systems. Open source allows us to address those goals together
February 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
One of the biggest things I've struggled with since moving from academia to industry is not being able to share what I've learned so others can improve their own work
I want to keep people safe online. Hiding information about how to do that often seems antithetical to that goal
I want to keep people safe online. Hiding information about how to do that often seems antithetical to that goal
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In general I have stopped finding media criticism of the NYT useful or interesting but this made me retch
“Audacious.” What the fuck are these people doing.
February 5, 2025 at 2:06 AM
In general I have stopped finding media criticism of the NYT useful or interesting but this made me retch
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"Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead."
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-dange...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-dange...
January 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead."
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-dange...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-dange...
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Honestly, this kind of open corruption would be striking even in Latin America. I think Americans are just not used to doing corruption quite like that, so they have no decorum. 1/
Holy cow. Executives at CBS’s parent company have discussed settling Trump’s lawsuit against CBS News/60 Minutes, because they need the Trump administration to sign off on a planned corporate merger. www.wsj.com/business/med...
January 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Honestly, this kind of open corruption would be striking even in Latin America. I think Americans are just not used to doing corruption quite like that, so they have no decorum. 1/
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The spreadsheet brigade that's keeping LA's rental market from exploding—new from @awalkerinla.bsky.social
www.torched.la/the-spreadsh...
www.torched.la/the-spreadsh...
The spreadsheet brigade that's keeping LA's rental market from exploding
There's an army of volunteers at their keyboards right now, all over the country, preventing the ignition of a secondary disaster by snuffing out LA's price-gouging rentals
www.torched.la
January 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The spreadsheet brigade that's keeping LA's rental market from exploding—new from @awalkerinla.bsky.social
www.torched.la/the-spreadsh...
www.torched.la/the-spreadsh...
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That video of Palestinian medics being forced to march through the ruins in Gaza in their underwear. “One day everyone will have been against this”.
December 27, 2024 at 8:48 PM
That video of Palestinian medics being forced to march through the ruins in Gaza in their underwear. “One day everyone will have been against this”.
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After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers.
Science works, y'all.
www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...
Science works, y'all.
www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...
Closure of northern Minnesota camp is ‘the greatest story.’ Here’s why.
Willow River, Minn., camp One Heartland is for sale after serving kids there for nearly three decades.
www.startribune.com
December 27, 2024 at 9:46 PM
After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers.
Science works, y'all.
www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...
Science works, y'all.
www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...
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Wikipedia is the last good website, the one staple of the early internet that hasn't been degraded by pursuit of profit.
It's not an acceptable academic source—it's subject to change—but it's a great first cut, and has citations to acceptable sources.
We can't let post-truth reactionaries ruin it.
It's not an acceptable academic source—it's subject to change—but it's a great first cut, and has citations to acceptable sources.
We can't let post-truth reactionaries ruin it.
Don't Let the Enemies of Truth Ruin Wikipedia
Elon Musk and other reactionary liars hate the "last good website" because it won't go along with their distortions
www.arcdigital.media
December 27, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Wikipedia is the last good website, the one staple of the early internet that hasn't been degraded by pursuit of profit.
It's not an acceptable academic source—it's subject to change—but it's a great first cut, and has citations to acceptable sources.
We can't let post-truth reactionaries ruin it.
It's not an acceptable academic source—it's subject to change—but it's a great first cut, and has citations to acceptable sources.
We can't let post-truth reactionaries ruin it.
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If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control.
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
The billionaire has become one of the most prominent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.
www.newsweek.com
December 25, 2024 at 3:54 AM
If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control.
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...
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This Haaretz piece of IDF soldiers’ confessions of human rights violations absolutely wrecked me
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...
December 24, 2024 at 2:28 AM
This Haaretz piece of IDF soldiers’ confessions of human rights violations absolutely wrecked me
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...
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academics from poorer backgrounds are:
-severely underrepresented
-more likely to not publish
-have outstanding publication records
-introduce more novel scientific concepts, but less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations & awards
www.nber.org/papers/w33289
-severely underrepresented
-more likely to not publish
-have outstanding publication records
-introduce more novel scientific concepts, but less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations & awards
www.nber.org/papers/w33289
Climbing the Ivory Tower: How Socio-Economic Background Shapes Academia
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
December 24, 2024 at 10:31 AM
academics from poorer backgrounds are:
-severely underrepresented
-more likely to not publish
-have outstanding publication records
-introduce more novel scientific concepts, but less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations & awards
www.nber.org/papers/w33289
-severely underrepresented
-more likely to not publish
-have outstanding publication records
-introduce more novel scientific concepts, but less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations & awards
www.nber.org/papers/w33289
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People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Breaking News: The FDA approved use of the weight loss drug Zepbound for a common form of sleep apnea. It is the first drug authorized to treat the disorder.
F.D.A. Approves Weight-Loss Drug to Treat Sleep Apnea
Zepbound is the first prescription drug approved specifically to treat the common condition.
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2024 at 12:41 AM
People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
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no shade to the op here, but i honestly think a lot of times when people are like "i can't believe the media ignored this story, it should have been front-page news," what they really mean is it should have been at the top of their social media feeds.
December 20, 2024 at 1:18 PM
no shade to the op here, but i honestly think a lot of times when people are like "i can't believe the media ignored this story, it should have been front-page news," what they really mean is it should have been at the top of their social media feeds.
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How do disparities in healthcare access affect ML models? 💰📉🧐 We found that low access to care -> worse EHR data quality -> worse ML performance in a dataset of 134k patients. Work with Anna Zink (on the faculty job market rn!) + Hongzhou Luan, presented at #ML4H2024
December 20, 2024 at 1:04 AM
How do disparities in healthcare access affect ML models? 💰📉🧐 We found that low access to care -> worse EHR data quality -> worse ML performance in a dataset of 134k patients. Work with Anna Zink (on the faculty job market rn!) + Hongzhou Luan, presented at #ML4H2024
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Not defending this guy at all but damn same energy.
December 20, 2024 at 1:04 AM
Not defending this guy at all but damn same energy.
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Lots of clarity today
December 19, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Lots of clarity today
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NEW: Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves.
We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. ⤵️
We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. ⤵️
If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life
Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds…
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December 19, 2024 at 12:00 PM
NEW: Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves.
We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. ⤵️
We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. ⤵️
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The idea that what happens online doesn’t have offline effects is one that enrages me. I hesitate to even use terms like online/offline anymore as if there is some sort of switch you can trigger where you leave the internet behind and can move about in a world where it doesn’t exist. 🧵
Sexual abuse is a physical crime. Deepfakes are not physical. Deepfake sexual abuse is a contradiction.
December 19, 2024 at 11:48 AM
The idea that what happens online doesn’t have offline effects is one that enrages me. I hesitate to even use terms like online/offline anymore as if there is some sort of switch you can trigger where you leave the internet behind and can move about in a world where it doesn’t exist. 🧵