Omer F. Yalcin
omerfyalcin.com
Omer F. Yalcin
@omerfyalcin.com
Computational social scientist, Lecturer at UMasss Amherst's DACSS (Data Analytics and Computational Social Science) program
Reposted by Omer F. Yalcin
My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.
August 8, 2025 at 12:40 AM
What I hate about this is that, for GPT-6, they're going to do

if "blueberry" in prompt:
print("there are two Bs in blueberry")

and claim it is now more intelligent than GPT-5.
August 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Great! I'll send you an email. Thank you, Kevin!
June 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Got it. Thank you. I'll take Kevin up on it then!
June 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Thank you, Kevin! I appreciate it. I'll let you know :)
June 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Thank you very much for the kind offer! I'd be grateful if you read mine (I'm looking for a range of positions including R2 and teaching). Please let me know if and how I should proceed. Thank you!
June 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Regression and other stories, chapter 16, has a discussion in the same vein that I really like (and some criticism of traditional power analysis): users.aalto.fi/~ave/ROS.pdf
users.aalto.fi
April 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The R package naming convention, especially when R is the only capital letter and you have to press shift only for that letter.
April 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM