Best of Twitter - Week of December 6, 2021
Published!
Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology
@eLife
* 193 experiments planned, 50 completed. Challenges in transparency, sharing, & implementation doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…
* Replication effect sizes were 85% smaller on avg than original effects doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…
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The ongoing consolidation in AI is incredible. Thread: ➡️ When I started ~decade ago vision, speech, natural language, reinforcement learning, etc. were completely separate; You couldn't read papers across areas - the approaches were completely different, often not even ML based.
This stunning, real video of the SpaceX Inspiration4 launch is made of multiple telescope tracking shots.
Created by @MarsScientific:
New preprint out! Do web search engines contribute to the spread of conspiracy theories? [Yes, some] Does it matter if one uses Google or DuckDuckGo to search for "flat earth" or "9/11"? [Yes, it does!] We answer these and other questions here arxiv.org/pdf/2112.01278… Short🧵👇1/4
^ compare Google’s “Promotes conspiracy” to all other engines
Obvious enough, but most of the difficulty in life comes from keeping obvious observations in your head long enough to act on them
Personal news:
Our updates for November: buttondown.email/newscience/arc…
tldr: Sasha Targ joined us as Head of Research; we're opening community Slack; Survival and Flourishing Fund awarded us $500,000; @geochurch and @tonsing joined as advisors; 2022 Summer Fellowship applications open Dec 19.