Best of Twitter - Week of May 25, 2020 - OkCupid ratings

May 31, 2020

Norman🧩🐝 @AnimeLarper

lil maudlin 🍄 @lilmaudlin

I trained myself to love cockroaches a while ago and it's one of the biggest reasons I feel like I can become any way I want to be if I just try to

^ very interesting thread

John Backus @backus

@webdevMason From 2014 data: % of San Francisco births from mothers aged 30+ was 75%. If you constrained to college educated though, it jumped to 88%!! I wonder how far past 90% we are in 2019… /cc @sovereignfamily Source: sfdph.org/dph/files/MCHd…

Venkatesh Rao @vgr

Whoa. This is insane.

↕ reminders that progress is not automatic!

Docking confirmed – Crew Dragon has arrived at the @Space_Station!

Andrej Karpathy @karpathy

Nice/fun YouTube channel walking through recent papers in deep learning in a video format, this episode on GPT-3. Cool! :)

Yannic Kilcher @ykilcher

GPT-3 is out and it is HUGE 🤯 Turns out that a pure Language Model can zero-shot almost any NLP Task! Here's my video summary of this 175 BILLION parameter beast! https://t.co/cSq3EvNfc4 @nottombrown @8enmann @AlecRad @Dario_Amodei @arvind_io @girishsastry @AmandaAskell @ilyasut https://t.co/7A4dvNY5SS

^ if you’re a grad student or an academic, consider doing this for a paper(s) in your field!!! if you’re a biologist, also contact me, maybe i can help?

Colin Hawco @ColinHawco

Looked into submitting a paper to Cerebral Cortex (@OxfordJournals). Charge for pages AND $600US for color figures. Meaning my 10 figure paper will cost about $9000 CAN (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and NOT EVEN BE OPEN ACCESS! Open access costs ANOTHER nearly $6000 CAN. $15000CAN. Wow.

^ science

Austen Allred @Austen

My wife and I started having weekly one-on-ones in the same format you would in a professional setting. It sounds ridiculous, but is awesome. Try it.

^ recommended. this is what my wife and I have been doing for ~year now. Super helpful.

Jason Crawford @jasoncrawford

Statisticians I talk to tell me that medical journals *routinely* publish papers with flawed statistical methods. Why don't medical journals value statistical methods enough to catch this in peer review?

Rachael Meager @economeager

@jasoncrawford i once submitted a paper to Science showing that a widely used methodology was likely inappropriate for a very high profile case in medical/public health research, and presenting the correct, different, result. it was rejected for being "a methods paper"

Adam Strandberg @The_Lagrangian

@SamoBurja Kegan says he went into business consulting from psychology because it’s the only way to give grown men therapy

Quarantined section

Paul Novosad @paulnovosad

TV writers out of episode ideas, turning to stale sci-fi tropes

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Jun 2, 2020Liked by Alexey Guzey

informative posts! :D

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