https://medium.com/future-literacy/results-from-nine-months-on-blueprint-3e1d6798e57b
Results from nine months on Blueprint | by Bryan Johnson | Future Literacy | Medium
December 11, 2023What We Can Learn From the Epic Failure of Google Flu Trends | WIRED
December 11, 2023Amazon.com: The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data: 9781541675704: Spiegelhalter, David: Books
December 11, 2023They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie? | The New Yorker
December 11, 2023https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/09/they-studied-dishonesty-was-their-work-a-lie QT:{{
the Data Colada team sent a dossier to Harvard that outlined an array of anomalies in four of Gino’s papers. In her lab study for the car-insurance paper, for example, several observations seemed to be out of order, in a way that suggested someone had moved them around by hand. Those data points, they found, were disproportionately responsible for the result. The team was unable to conceive of a benign explanation for this pattern. They had examined only four papers but noted “strong suspicions” about some of her published data going as far back as 2008. On October 27, 2021, Harvard notified Gino that she was under investigation, and asked her to turn over all “HBS-issued devices” by 5 p.m. that day. According to Gino, the police were called to oversee the process.
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A.I. Killer Drones Are Becoming Reality. Nations Disagree on Limits. – The New York Times
December 11, 2023Scientists have published an atlas of the brain
December 11, 2023Prosecutor’s fallacy – Oxford Reference
December 11, 2023https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100350146
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suppose a blood type possessed by only 1% of the population is found at a crime scene. The accused has blood of this type. The prosecutor argues that there is only a 1% chance that the accused would have blood of this type (event A, say) if innocent (event B, say) and concludes that the accused is guilty. The prosecutor has quoted P(A|B) when it is P(B|A) that is relevant.
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Emmett Shear ’05 briefly appointed OpenAI CEO amid chaotic turnover – Yale Daily News
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“The appointment, even if temporary, is significant both for Yale’s reputation and the tech community as a whole,” computer science professor Mark Gerstein wrote to the News. “Leaders in the tech industry serve as pivotal role models and inspirational figures for those pursuing technical professions.”
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Gerstein said that Shear’s brief stint as OpenAI CEO is especially notable given Yale’s “limited presence in tech leadership” compared to peer schools such as Stanford University and Harvard University. “}}
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