Mel Andrews
@bayesianboy.bsky.social
I’m not like the other Bayesians. I’m different.
Thinks about philosophy of science, AI ethics, machine learning, models, & metascience. postdoc @ Princeton.
Thinks about philosophy of science, AI ethics, machine learning, models, & metascience. postdoc @ Princeton.
I also received this wonderful moleskine notebook and a bag to keep it in from the conference.
November 4, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I also received this wonderful moleskine notebook and a bag to keep it in from the conference.
This is a lie, actually, I got some cool earrings too.
November 4, 2025 at 3:18 AM
This is a lie, actually, I got some cool earrings too.
I went all the way to Mexico to give a keynote and all I got was this lousy t-shirt
November 4, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I went all the way to Mexico to give a keynote and all I got was this lousy t-shirt
This market is a soap bubble and we all know it. Claims of the capacity to obviate or automate human labor are absurd. We know this. But that won’t stop them from disrupting labor markets and, with them, human lives. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
November 3, 2025 at 4:20 AM
This market is a soap bubble and we all know it. Claims of the capacity to obviate or automate human labor are absurd. We know this. But that won’t stop them from disrupting labor markets and, with them, human lives. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
More frightening yet is the pervasive belief that a generation of American citizens was born lacking all intellectual curiosity, as though by some fluke, while our educational establishments continued to serve us well.
November 3, 2025 at 12:25 AM
More frightening yet is the pervasive belief that a generation of American citizens was born lacking all intellectual curiosity, as though by some fluke, while our educational establishments continued to serve us well.
the law is not ontologically independent. it is not a force or entity existing out there in the aether. it is supervenient on human beings; the decisions we make and what we deem to be just.
October 30, 2025 at 12:56 AM
the law is not ontologically independent. it is not a force or entity existing out there in the aether. it is supervenient on human beings; the decisions we make and what we deem to be just.
Thrilled also to have seen this cool bug which in its adult form is a good example of Batesian mimicry
October 28, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Thrilled also to have seen this cool bug which in its adult form is a good example of Batesian mimicry
Thrilled to be at UNAM this week and to be keynoting a truly fantastic conference on the Philosophy of Computing.
October 28, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Thrilled to be at UNAM this week and to be keynoting a truly fantastic conference on the Philosophy of Computing.
Mexican starbucks almost gets my name right:
October 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Mexican starbucks almost gets my name right:
it’s a competition.
October 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
it’s a competition.
here I am during my dissertation defense. swordless. defenseless.
October 16, 2025 at 12:47 AM
here I am during my dissertation defense. swordless. defenseless.
There’s nothing wrong with inventing your own little thought experiment where a cat licks poison or dances to mambo no.5 when no one is watching if you don’t actually care about the Copenhagen interpretation
October 14, 2025 at 1:56 AM
There’s nothing wrong with inventing your own little thought experiment where a cat licks poison or dances to mambo no.5 when no one is watching if you don’t actually care about the Copenhagen interpretation
expressing appreciation for this scientific diagram
October 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
expressing appreciation for this scientific diagram
Should you be celebrating Jewish holidays in 2025?
October 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Should you be celebrating Jewish holidays in 2025?
The level of brightness standardized in modern headlights is a known safety hazard. Regulators and insurance safety associations think the tests circa the 1980s don’t need updating. Auto manufacturers have perverse incentives and have found ways to cheat these tests.
September 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The level of brightness standardized in modern headlights is a known safety hazard. Regulators and insurance safety associations think the tests circa the 1980s don’t need updating. Auto manufacturers have perverse incentives and have found ways to cheat these tests.
Heartbreaking: this postdoc did not get the job they applied to several years ago and have no recollection of having applied to
September 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Heartbreaking: this postdoc did not get the job they applied to several years ago and have no recollection of having applied to
The Human Rights Council of the United Nations: The genocide in Gaza persists because it is profitable. The special commission has meticulously documented the corporations heavily invested in the continuation of this human rights atrocity.
September 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The Human Rights Council of the United Nations: The genocide in Gaza persists because it is profitable. The special commission has meticulously documented the corporations heavily invested in the continuation of this human rights atrocity.
read incandescence if you like to think about how the discovery of mechanics would have gone if Sir Isaac Newton were a honeybee in a world that is gravitationally and topologically radically unlike our own
September 19, 2025 at 4:31 AM
read incandescence if you like to think about how the discovery of mechanics would have gone if Sir Isaac Newton were a honeybee in a world that is gravitationally and topologically radically unlike our own
I am thrilled that my paper on machine learning in science and the myth of theory-free inference has been accepted for publication in Erkenntnis. The paper remains available for download as a preprint through the archives. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26075/1/Andr...
August 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I am thrilled that my paper on machine learning in science and the myth of theory-free inference has been accepted for publication in Erkenntnis. The paper remains available for download as a preprint through the archives. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26075/1/Andr...
inside of you are two brain: right (meaning) and left (cellphone)
July 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
inside of you are two brain: right (meaning) and left (cellphone)
this was my first try
July 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM
this was my first try
Finally, someone willing to speak some truth about silicon valley:
July 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Finally, someone willing to speak some truth about silicon valley:
July 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM