Mel Andrews
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bayesianboy.bsky.social
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.
external validity is when repeated prompting of the LLM achieves the same result, right?
November 11, 2025 at 12:03 AM
technological progress.
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
We know that persona-prompting leads LLMs to produce exaggerated caricatures of human subjects. Luckily, in this case, we have already anticipated that a stereotype about social scientists is resistance to innovation in methodology and explicitly instructed them to express neutral attitudes towards
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
please allow me to first consult my oracle
November 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Cop tech functioning as described would imply the reality of wizardry and personally I would rather live in that world.
November 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
it’s all just the quadro tracker. over and over again. forever. it is billions of dollars poured into literal divining rods, because the authority of law enforcement rests on a palace of smoke and mirrors, on a cheap conjuring act.
November 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
See discussion of inference to stable identity features or unobservables from facial structure analysis: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The reanimation of pseudoscience in machine learning and its ethical repercussions
The present perspective outlines how epistemically baseless and ethically pernicious paradigms are recycled back into the scientific literature via ma…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I feel like it caused huge problems for his account of material causation
November 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
did Aristotle not famously believe that if a menstruating woman saw her reflection in a mirror, she would “dirty” the mirror, turning its surface blood-red
November 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Easily the best I have seen.
November 4, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I also received this wonderful moleskine notebook and a bag to keep it in from the conference.
November 4, 2025 at 3:19 AM
This is a lie, actually, I got some cool earrings too.
November 4, 2025 at 3:18 AM