Regression is a tool for making comparisons

If you don't know / can't easily explain what comparisons you're trying to make, then you don't understand the regression you're running

Are you a PhD student interested in race and discrimination then come and join our PhD course 12-14 June 2024 with Désirée Lim & Marion Kathe Godman . Deadline for registration: 1 May. More info on: ps.au.dk/en/cepdisc/eve…

Is the YouTube algorithm radicalizing us?

Our new PNAS paper says: probably not!

But why should you trust this paper rather than other papers or reports saying otherwise?

Because we came up with a way to disentangle the causal effect of the algorithm.

pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Interpreting transformer's 'attention' as kernel smoothing - write-up by Shalizi, extremely informative (as usual)

Werner Herzog tweets

Herzog on truth: twitter.com/SGJ72/status/1…

Contrary to expectations, the correlation between cognitive ability and educational attainment has weakened over time. doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

My all-time favorite Venn diagram 😆

fine-tuning cautionary tale