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Webpage: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/
The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us. (Princeton) https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691272443/the-irrational-decision
Ben Recht
The history of megatrials in cardiology reveals a complex interplay of expert opinion and institutional approval in revolutionizing the treatment of heart disease.
Bluesky: the only place where people think the solution to the rampant dysfunction and popular disillusionment in our institutions is more middle management.
A report for university chancellors and presidents concerned about the state of academic scholarship: Statistical thinking is postmodern.
In _The Ideas Letter_, Leif Weatherby, Tyler Shoemaker, and I wrote about the creation of reality through pseudoscience, religion, and psychosis. Of course, the piece is mostly about AI.
As an example field where statistical reasoning and significance tests changed, here’s a dive into the landmark large-scale randomized trials in cardiology.
I still can't get over the hero image. Priceless.
The good intentions and bizarre conclusions of evidence-based medicine.
Like, at some point, we can all collectively call bullshit.
Have to appreciate the audacity of Anthropic defending three successive model releases with diminishing quality by claiming it's both intentional and for our own good.
As always, a nice result is blown out of proportion by people trying to get unimaginably rich.
The authors contend that contemporary efforts to render AI systems interpretable rest on a mistake: reification, the process of treating abstractions and statistical artifacts as if they were concrete...
