We live in an amazing time—a Pakistani website specializing in publishing fake news created by AI to earn advertising revenue published an announcement of a non-existent Halloween parade in Dublin. The article was picked up by search algorithms and rose in Google's results. Journalists began spreading the news in their publications without even bothering to verify it. As a result, thousands of people came to the square, ready to participate in a parade that didn't exist. #FakeNews #AI #Media #Dublin #Halloween #Misinformation
![An awareness of the history of p-values might elp deflate their swollen stature and encourage more judicious use. We were surprised to learn, in the course of writing this article, that the p < 0.05 cutoff was established as a competitive response to a disagreement over book royalties between two foundational statisticians. In the early 1920s, Kendall Pearson, whose income depended on the sale of extensive statistical tables, was unwilling to allow Ronald A. Fisher to use them in his new book. To work around this barrier, Fisher created a method of inference based on only two values: p-values of 0.05 and 0.01 (Hurlbert and Lombardi,
2009). Fisher himself later admitted that Pearson's more continuous method of inference was better than his binary approach: "no scientific worker has a fixed level of significance at which from year to year, and in all circumstances, he rejects [null] hypotheses; he rather gives his mind to each particular case in the light of his evidence and ideas (Hurlbert and Lombardi, 2009: 316). A fair interpretation of this history is that we use p-values at east in part because a statistician from the 1920s was afraid that sharing his work would undermine his income](https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/113/404/999/832/750/171/original/197090ae839ab845.jpeg "An awareness of the history of p-values might elp deflate their swollen stature and encourage more judicious use. We were surprised to learn, in the course of writing this article, that the p < 0.05 cutoff was established as a competitive response to a disagreement over book royalties between two foundational statisticians. In the early 1920s, Kendall Pearson, whose income depended on the sale of extensive statistical tables, was unwilling to allow Ronald A. Fisher to use them in his new book. To work around this barrier, Fisher created a method of inference based on only two values: p-values of 0.05 and 0.01 (Hurlbert and Lombardi,
2009). Fisher himself later admitted that Pearson's more continuous method of inference was better than his binary approach: \"no scientific worker has a fixed level of significance at which from year to year, and in all circumstances, he rejects [null] hypotheses; he rather gives his mind to each particular case in the light of his evidence and ideas (Hurlbert and Lombardi, 2009: 316). A fair interpretation of this history is that we use p-values at east in part because a statistician from the 1920s was afraid that sharing his work would undermine his income")
what's in your dream programming environment? what isn't? what does it feel like?
"why does software require maintenance, it's not like it wears down"
Because software is not generally useful for any inherent good; what matters is its relationship with the surrounding context, and that context is in perpetual change.
I wrote this, about Soma Labs, who make synths and stuff.
https://maxwainwright.com/soma/soma-is-a-russian-company.html
Soma is russian. Don’t buy stuff from russian companies.
The founder Vlad Kreimer is shady, at best. He chose russia over Ukraine, and acts and sounds very much like a pro-russian trying to hide.
Don’t buy his stuff. Don’t send money to the russian war machine.
#russia #ukraine #somalabs #electronicmusic #synths #experimentalmusic #noisemusic #synthesizer #musicalinstruments #RussiaUkraine
Behold a custom-made 21-segment LED that uses a font design from 1898
Item #14 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free to read and subscribe to here: https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-25-the-third-thumb-prairie-strips-and/
The next time someone references #wikipedia for #zionism remind them that it is not a reliable resource, and has been vandalized in a coordinated and malicious manner.
Introducing Sonusmix, an app to easily manage audio routing in Pipewire. It features virtual devices, volume control, routing, application endpoints to manage entire applications at once, persistence, and some tools to work around some of Pipewire's issues. It's available as an AppImage, Flatpak, or Nix package. Feedback is highly appreciated, we have a Matrix channel too! Please let us know if you have any issues!
It's interesting how thin a skin the React crowd has. They think I'm being deeply antagonistic when, in fact, I've been holding my fire (and the confidences of consulting counterparties) for ~8 years. This has only served to make things look *better* than they really are.
The damage I'm seeing isn't just in the public sector, or limited to exceptionally bad cases. It's now ecosystem-wide, and JS-first culture owns a share of the blame.
But why do I care? A short thread.
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