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Entrepreneurship prof studying early-stage founders. Previously built software and startups. #rstats. https://teapawt.net/t.co/1kSKc4mApw

Florida and Chicago
Joined October 2007
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In my latest paper published this month (with my amazing co-authors not on x), we examined the effects of extraverted behavior on trust in a crowdfunding context. Available here: jsbs.scholasticahq.com/artic…
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Are you following @edzitron's reporting on the AI industry?
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After Elon Musk posted on X saying he had throttled Ukraine’s use of Starlink after it was used for offensive attacks, House Armed Services Committee member Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) says the billionaire’s ability to wield that power is “beyond disturbing to me.” “It cannot and should not be the case that a tech oligarch, a private citizen, who has that much control over our national security, who is unaccountable, who is unelected, with zero transparency, is making life and death decisions on the battlefield in systems that our service members and our partners and allies rely upon,” he adds.
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People still don't want to read AI-generated books.
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Unfollowing toxic social media influencers makes people less hostile! In 2 large field experiments, unfollowing a few extreme influencers: -Reduced partisan animosity by 24% -Increased satisfaction with Twitter/X -Led people to share higher-quality news Effects persisting for 6+ months and most people choose not to refollow the influencers after the study was over. Read the full paper here: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/ac…
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I have no idea what is happening with Starlink or who is making what decisions, but the DoW’s argument against Anthropic was that a private firm couldn’t be allowed to dictate or compromise U.S. policy or the government’s sovereign control over policy and relevant capabilities.
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So the US military relies on a satellite internet system a private billionaire can turn off at will? Shouldn’t US allies who rely in it be terrified? More importantly , shouldn’t the US government be a bit worried one private citizen has the capability to do this?
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1. AI written 2. AI written with human input 3. How do you know if what was written was your ideas or the AI content? It quickly becomes a stew.
It strikes me that there are three very different ways people use AI which all look the same to @pangram . 1) MEAT PROXY, letting AI do both the thinking and writing for you. 2) Coming to AI with finished thoughts and ideas, using AI to phrase it more elegantly, adding filler words between bullet points etc 3) Iterating back and forth with AI, bouncing ideas, forming a text together. All three can show up as 100% AI-generated in Pangram, but clearly very different processes and I think can become conflated. I definitely sometimes do nr 2 and 3 sometimes. Never 1, (But on Twitter I don't use AI-written text)
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Just read a recommendation letter from the main advisor of a very promising job market candidate that was 100 percent AI generated according to Pangram. Don’t do this!!
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A very useful report on how AI is affecting student learning at MIT. I like this term cognitive surrender, "where students fall back on AI at the first hint of struggle." We need to encourage undergrads (and all humans) to recognize this pattern and resist it.
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If Dario and Sam really wanted to slow down the pace of AI, they would move their research to a university.
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One of the biggest mistakes in math education has been the move away from practice and memorization. We're told memorization works against understanding. It's usually the opposite. The more foundational knowledge students can retrieve automatically, the more working memory they have available to think about complex mathematics.
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Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Brilliant visual.
Make hard decision today for easy life tomorrow
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Turns out that Flux 3 is exceptional at generating historical footage... like elementary school students in the '90s predicting how we'll use computers. (the last girl is my favorite!)
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Shook our house
Blue Origin's New Glenn just blew up at LC-36 while attempting to Static Fire ahead of NG-4. nsf.live/spacecoast
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As a statistician, I keep asking myself how all these AI people are dealing with the massive potential for catastrophic errors in critical analyses, and the answer keeps being they either didn't think about it at all, or they don't care.
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