Here's the full, massive, graph. If a source doesn't have a data point for 2015, it's because it wasn't part of the top ten five years ago. You can also look at a pdf here: charlesbreton.ca/assets/PS_Top1…

My secret superpower is that I am a methodologist whenever someone asks me a difficult substantive question and an empirical researcher whenever someone asks me a difficult methods question.

Lots of people in CS are (almost surely) GPT-ing their peer reviews arxiv.org/abs/2403.07183

Understanding p-values

Eid mubarak all!

lmao, why do people do this

I'm genuinely puzzled by this decision. I don't see the play & I don't see how USC benefits. They are inviting their students to disrupt the ceremony by providing a legitimate grievance. It's going to be pandemonium. Is it donor unhappiness they're worried about?

ChatGPT overuses certain words, notably "delve" Why? Turns out it was trained by RLHF workers from Africa In Nigeria, “delve” is much more frequently used in business English than in England or the US. So we are ending up with an AI system that writes slightly like an African

Princeton University Hassan Sayed, a fifth year PhD candidate in economics, and Achinthya Sivalingan, a SPIA MPA second year, have been arrested, evicted, and permanently banned from the Princeton University campus, thereby preventing them from finishing their degrees.

Dissertation ✅ PhD ✅ Now it's time to add "Dr" to the username, right?

Arkadaşlar btw doktorayı da sağ salim bitirdik çok şükür, bi hayırlı olsun fav'ınızı alırım.

siyaset bilimci oldum.

#ICC Prosecutor Karim A. A. Khan KC announces applications for arrest warrants in relation to Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant in the context of the situation in the State of #Palestine ⤵️ icc-cpi.int/news/statement…

Matthew Yglesias Survivorship bias, happier people live longer

Horrific images coming from #Rafah tonight, after an #Israel airstrike struck IDP tents, triggering a huge fire. Video footage shows dozens of bodies burnt alive - reportedly ~30+.

Insanely accurate. Writing makes you aware of the edge cases and deal with them, talking does not. And edge cases are where new information emerges. Almost every time I need to write something original, I underestimate the difficulty of it beforehand, and face a reckoning.

timeless

You have to watch this immensely revealing and horrifying testimony by Jewish-American humanitarian surgeon Mark Perlmutter who spent 2 weeks in Gaza: "All of the disaster zones I've seen combined - combined - 40 mission trips, 30 years, ground zero,