Crawling isn't innate (unlike walking). Every baby must *invent* crawling, from scratch, using extremely little data, and no reference to imitate. Which is why different babies end up with different ways of crawling. Sometimes people tell me, "you say AI isn't intelligent until it can invent, but most humans can't invent anything either!" -- in reality, we are all constantly inventing. Even babies are inventors. You couldn't navigate a single day in your life if you weren't capable of invention.

If you see yourself as a victim, you'll be convinced that the world views you that way too. The Dartmouth Scar Experiment reveals that. Participants thought they'd be interviewed for jobs with a fake scar on their face, which they saw being applied by a makeup artist. However, during the touch up phase, unbeknownst to them the scar was removed. Those participants who believed that they still had a visible scar, reported a massively increased level of discrimination. They also "displayed heightened feelings of powerlessness, self-pity, and an increased tendency to blame others for their failures." (source: Medium). They believed that they were discriminated against and thus internalized it in a negative way. The study essentially revealed that regardless of whether there's actual discrimination or not, when one believes themselves to be a victim it results in negative consequences.

NLP grad students, don’t despair. ChatGPT is not the end of NLP research, it’s the beginning.

OpenAI now gets more traffic than Twitch, Pinterest and Discord 😯

Is this real?

Some good points from a fellow old-timer opendatascience.com/four-rea…

Paid courses completely failed to teach me how machine learning works. I used to just import scikit-learn and call model. fit. So I spent 6 months studying the most popular models. Here are the 7 resources I used to get ahead:

My first thought was, ok you have my attention now, that is going to change my workflow.

If there are 17 year olds here, me too

RStudio is now Posit. R Markdown is Quarto. #rstudioconf2022

Time to buy? marketwatch.com/story/heres-…

Quant Theorists Are Paid to Delude Themselves, Cam Harvey Says - Bloomberg bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

During the past 80 years, the Fed has never lowered inflation as much as it is setting out to do now—by four percentage points—without causing recession. wsj.com/articles/inflation-j…

Apple’s semiconductor operation is so big that it would rank as the world’s 12th-largest chip company by revenue. Here’s the risky road that got it there. wsj.com/articles/the-chips-t… via @WSJ

I love how things get spun. Musk offers to buy Twitter with cash he doesn’t really have. It’s reported as a hostile takeover.

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Registered. I'm looking forward to doing this seminar. I want to know ALL the econometrics. statisticalhorizons.com/semi…

Interesting interview with @DavidDunson7, co-author of "Bayesian Data Analysis", on advances in statistics and data science. youtube.com/watch?v=-rWf0TvP…