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ChatGPT experiment! "Translating a text is a true way of reading it," by the amazing wonder, Italo Calvino Similar to "Rehearsal improves performance," "The way to really learn something is to teach it" Below, Calvino quote, then at bottom ChatGPT's amazing response:

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Julian Hoffmann

@Julian_H0ffmann

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The Global Submarine Cable Network. Experimental map animation made in #blender3d and #rstats, v2. Data from

@TeleGeography

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"The numbers are not always what you think they are" Neil Young "It is easy to lie with statistics, and even easier without them" Frederick Mosteller Have an open mind, but not an empty head Begin with skepticism. Half of published medical research is false #data #dataviz

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The XBB.1.5 variant now accounts for ~66% of new cases in the US, up only ~5% from last week. covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra CH.1.1 still low at 1.6%. No other variants gaining at an appreciable level

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XBB.1.5 is now dominant in most US regions so lack of rise of indicators such as wastewater or hospitalizations provides reassurance

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Evaluating Machine Learning, Statistical Models Claiming "my dog is the best dog in the world" does not validate a model. Independent, honest, diverse empirical replications are essential ET, Seeing with Fresh Eyes: Meaning Space Data Truth #DataScience #data #Econometrics

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Evaluating Machine Learning, Statistical Models Claiming "my dog is the best dog in the world" does not validate a model. Independent, honest, diverse empirical replications are essential ET, Seeing with Fresh Eyes: Meaning Space Data Truth #DataScience #data #Econometrics

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"The numbers are not always what you think they are" Neil Young "It is easy to lie with statistics, and even easier without them" Frederick Mosteller Have an open mind, but not an empty head Begin with skepticism. Half of published medical research is false #data #dataviz

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ET log/log ghostgrid of animals, log Y=brain mass, log X=body mass log-log slope = %/% = "elasticity" in economics plotdots = animal drawings, 8 prankish funny like Matisse fishbowl ET, Seeing with Fresh Eyes: Meaning Space Data Truth #dataviz #visualization #data #rstats

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A Matisse fish in a bowl appears in my log weight X by log height Y scatterplot of many animals. twitter.com/Iithosphere/st…

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Replying to

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The cat is photoshopped on top though

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ET log/log ghostgrid of animals, log Y=brain mass, log X=body mass log-log slope = %/% = "elasticity" in economics plotdots = animal drawings, 8 prankish funny like Matisse fishbowl ET, Seeing with Fresh Eyes: Meaning Space Data Truth #dataviz #visualization #data #rstats

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A Matisse fish in a bowl appears in my log weight X by log height Y scatterplot of many animals. twitter.com/Iithosphere/st…

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A Matisse fish in a bowl appears in my log weight X by log height Y scatterplot of many animals.

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@Iithosphere

by henry matisse

read image description

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We’re launching a pilot subscription plan for ChatGPT, a conversational AI that can chat with you, answer follow-up questions, and challenge incorrect assumptions. The new subscription plan, ChatGPT...

Greg Brockman

@gdb

Feb 1

We're piloting ChatGPT Plus, a $20/mo subscription for faster response times and reliability during peak hours:

openai.com

Introducing ChatGPT Plus

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Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician)

@jeremyfaust

Jan 31

Yale has just made what must be among the wisest moves in the history of the institution. Dr.

@meganranney

will be the Dean of the Yale School of Public Health. Future Dean Ranney will be the 1st Dean of YSPH in its relaunch as an independent school.

browndailyherald.com

Megan Ranney to leave School of Public Health for Yale - The Brown Daily Herald

Ranney will step down on July 1 to helm the Yale School of Public Health: "It felt like the right time for me to take a leap,” she said.

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Terrible Maps

@TerribleMaps

A comprehensive map of all countries that use the MMDDYYYY date format

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. Did 2022 Ig Nobel Prize on INFORMATION (cognitive psych division) First draft: "Cognitive psychology is to #dataviz as ornithology is for the birds" But Ig Nobel format required: 24 seconds technical jargon, then 7 seconds clear summary language #visualization #cognitive

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"In this study, COVID-19 was a leading cause of death among individuals aged 0 to 19 years in the US."

@JAMANetworkOpen

jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman by

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Everything you want to know on the 3 major #SARSCoV2 variants in 1 page! by

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@NYTScience

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. Did 2022 Ig Nobel Prize on INFORMATION (cognitive psych division) First draft: "Cognitive psychology is to #dataviz as ornithology is for the birds" But Ig Nobel format required: 24 seconds technical jargon, then 7 seconds clear summary language #visualization #cognitive

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Thomas Edsall

@Edsall

The NYT should tell readers whether it helped crooked FBI agents get Trump elected in 2016

The NYT should tell readers whether it helped crooked FBI agents get Trump elected in 2016

inquirer.com

The arrest of a high-level FBI agent on Russia-tied corruption charges raises stunning new questions about how Trump really won in 2016.

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Second opinion re ChatGPT CGPT based on massive data base of inevitable mediocrity. And syntax looks like a writer who is paid by the word CGPT helpful pointing to idea: all translation methods look at all the words Knew this before I started, but this reminder good

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ChatGPT experiment! "Translating a text is a true way of reading it," by the amazing wonder, Italo Calvino Similar to "Rehearsal improves performance," "The way to really learn something is to teach it" Below, Calvino quote, then at bottom ChatGPT's amazing response:

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ChatGPT experiment! "Translating a text is a true way of reading it," by the amazing wonder, Italo Calvino Similar to "Rehearsal improves performance," "The way to really learn something is to teach it" Below, Calvino quote, then at bottom ChatGPT's amazing response:

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ChatGPT experiment! "Translating a text is a true way of reading it," by the amazing wonder, Italo Calvino Similar to "Rehearsal improves performance," "The way to really learn something is to teach it" Below, Calvino quote, then at bottom ChatGPT's amazing response:

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The Night Science Podcast

@nightsciencepod

Aug 23, 2022

New episode of the Night Science Podcast is up! We talk with data visualization guru

nightscience.buzzsprout.com

about - among many other things - ‘vacation eyes’; the term he uses for being able to notice things that the experts no longer can. nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/111893

@ItaiYanai

@MartinJLercher

Edward Tufte and the Thinking Eye - Night Science

Edward Tufte (ET) is widely-considered as the guru of data visualisation. He has taught the world about how data is to be communicated. He is best known for his 5 books on data visualisation, which...

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The Night Science Podcast

@nightsciencepod

Aug 20, 2022

Coming out in just a few days on the Night Science Podcast: "Edward Tufte and the Thinking Eye" In this episode,

@ItaiYanai

and

@MartinJLercher

talk with the guru of data visualization –

– about his most recent book ‘Seeing with fresh eyes - meaning space data truth’

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When M.D. is a Machine Doctor

Jan 24

A preprint today on #ChatGPT fielding patient questions medrxiv.org/content/10.110 Large language #AI models and medicine

erictopol.substack.com

Helping medical doctors and patients in the Foundation Model A.I. era

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Anthony Fernandez Gonzalez

@AnthonyFG77

Jun 7, 2022

Finally in my hands 😊 Book: Seeing with fresh eyes (Meaning, Space, Data, Truth) Author: Edward Tufte.

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The attempts to negate all of the data above by editorials like this today, a deceptive campaign against boosters which is putting more people of advanced age at risk wsj.com/articles/the-d

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Good landscape artworks have many xyz viewing positions. Circle Eye good+different from 1 meter/10m/100m, looks like tiny architectural scale model from 300m All words re Circle Eye came after it was built. Constructing = about seeing+doing, about metalspace+airspace, not words

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Sunrise/sunset= butter light + long shadows When winds blow,titanium blades whistle,along with my electronic ambient drone songs. Artwork way more elegant the closer the viewer. Good landscape art provides fresh visual experiences for years, from weather,shadows,viewer locations

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Sunrise/sunset= butter light + long shadows When winds blow,titanium blades whistle,along with my electronic ambient drone songs. Artwork way more elegant the closer the viewer. Good landscape art provides fresh visual experiences for years, from weather,shadows,viewer locations

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CRISPR technology: A decade of genome editing is only the beginning

Doudna Lab

@doudna_lab

Jan 20

A decade after we showed CRISPR systems could be used for programmable genome editing — our latest review is a look back at the work that has advanced this technology, and a look forward to the future of what may still be yet to come! 🧬✂️

science.org

A review discusses the current state of CRISPR-mediated genetic manipulation in human cells, animals, and plants and considers its future potential.

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on where ideas come from and grow

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Paul Holdengraber

@holdengraber

Jan 20, 2020

DAVID LYNCH

Born on this day, in 1946 One of the most thrilling conversations I ever had was with David Lynch .@BAM_Brooklyn “Where do ideas come from?” I asked Lynch. I will always treasure his 2 minute response:

youtube.com/watch?v=Fxr-7O

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The Art of Fiction No. 246

The Paris Review

@parisreview

Jan 20

“Very early on I came to see writing as a place where truth could be gotten at, but also where the truth could be defended.” —Rachel Cusk

theparisreview.org

Photo courtesy of Rachel Cusk. Rachel Cusk was born in Canada in 1967 to British parents, who moved the family to Los Angeles, then to England, where Cusk lives to this day. She began publishing in...

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Itai Yanai

@ItaiYanai

Sep 30, 2021

'Fresh eyes approach a new field with deep curiosity and focused looting - to quarry, make new connections, do whatever it takes, seek the useful and relevant, learn afresh not merely confirm prior views.'

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AI’s Best Trick Yet Is Showering Us With Attention

I wrote for

about why those uncanny AI portraits are so aesthetically empty and why people want them anyway

nytimes.com

Face filters and selfie apps are so compelling because they simulate limitless interest in what we look like.

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Harlan Krumholz

@hmkyale

Dec 26, 2020

And this book is a joy to read… and imagine the pressure of how you format and organize your book about how the rest of the world is producing reader-hostile content - but he does it - and shows us by engaging our eyes and our heart. Now to see if I can employ the lessons.

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Edward Tufte Redesigns the Sentence — Techno Sapien

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Edward Tufte Redesigns the Sentence — Techno Sapien

techno-sapien.com

Edward Tufte has redesigned the sentence. He did it in his new book, Seeing with Fresh Eyes, which was published last week. Here’s my hot-take review.

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