#Models

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

A riff on data, models and intervention in a COVID world. When you don't have data, you absolutely need models - it helps you understand what could happen, good and

Jenn

quicksparrows

Occasionally I see people talking about "ripping game models" to print for props, so I thought I'd toss up an example of why you generally cannot do that. The low-detail

Anh Nguyen

anh_ng8

Do SotA natural language understanding models care about word order?Nope , 75% to 90% of the time, for BERT-based models, on many GLUE tasks (where they outperformed humans)."marijuana cause cancer"

Cailin O'Connor

cailinmeister

I think that non-modelers have an idea that modelers know ahead of time what will happen when they put X, Y, and Z into a model. "Everything that comes out

Met4Cast 🌨

Met4CastUK

I've been quite pessimistic re: potential Greenland/sustained blocking that has been appearing on the models, I'll try to explain my reasoning why I think this projected blocking will "fail". This

Ian Fergusson

fergieweather

W COUNTRY OUTLOOK 1/3: After a periodically showery & comparatively mild phase Thurs-Fri, we shift into a markedly colder period developing through weekend & on into next week. By Sunday,

Scott Sistek

ScottSKOMO

Friday storm update: Still on the board. Models continue to vary in strength and track between Vancouver Island (really windy here) and N. Oregon (not quite as windy here). Better

Professor John R. Hutchinson

JohnRHutchinson

Quantitative biologists, especially but not only biomechanists doing simulations: what are your favorite papers on the concept of "validation" of models and simulations? (not specific good examples of the practice,

Gregor Schubert

gregorschub

What are we doing when we argue about financial market patterns? Why do lawyers try to appeal to a jury's prejudice? A thread on the recently-published "Models to Persuade" by

Julian Brimelow

Albatrossoar

I will not swear, I will not swear. Om.This morning's medium-range forecast from the MSC for #yegwx is wrong. Worse than that, it is fiction and contradicts the very NWP

Nate Silver

NateSilver538

At the risk of restarting the MRP wars: For the last 3 models I've designed (midterms, primaries, now revisiting stuff for the general) trying to impute how a state will

Thomas G. Dietterich

tdietterich

A review of “Underspecification Presents Challenges for Credibility in Modern Machine Learning” by D’Amour et al.https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03395 0/ Main claim: ML pipelines exhibit “underspecification”. i.e., they can produ

Wise Chimp

wise_chimp

"Mental Models" The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions(Definition and 100+ Thinking Tools)\\ A MEGA-THREAD by @Wise_Chimp // What Are Mental Models? We cannot keep all of the details of

Christopher Pittard

CAPittard

Twitter: Hur hur, English Lit is useless.Also Twitter: Why oh why don't schools teach a subject all about the kinds of critical thinking and textual analysis that would challenge the

Daniel Kotzin

danielkotzin

1/ Lockdowns were ordered last March because “exponential” growth in Covid cases was going to overwhelm hospitals. Within months, if not weeks, it was clear that all of the modeling

Michael T Lombardi (He/Him) - #CatalogueChimerical

TrebuchetOps

Because it's a not-small part of my life and non rpg career, I think *a lot* about the open source model and game design. But it wasn't until I started

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