Aneesh Sathe

Bayesian Thinking Talk (youtube) # Talk details from Frank Harrell’s blog - includes slides This beautiful talk about Bayesian Thinking by Frank Harrell should be essential material for scientists who are trained in frequentist methods. The talk covers the shortcomings of frequentist approaches, but more importantly the paths out of those quagmires are also shown. Frank discusses his journey to Bayesian stats in this blog post from 2017 which is also in the next section.

In 2025, blogs will be the last bastion of the Good Internet # Erik Hoel writes a work of maximalism succeeds when it triggers this property in the experiencer. You know that the whole is there, but you can’t see it all at once. You can only take it in sequentially. It is the awareness of an emergent form you, as a limited being with only a periscope for perception, cannot actually understand in full.

Are we slowly entering the post data annotation world? # The act of annotating data for ML has always been a shortcut to access concepts not present in the training data. This new work, incorporates literature with data to achieve a fuller picture with complementary information. Specifically the tech, utilizes GPT-4 to induce reliable disease-specific human expert concepts from medical literature and incorporate them with a group of purely learnable concepts to extract complementary knowledge from training data.

Beauty as resistance - Good visualization design is an act of liberation by Alberto Cairo Good visualization tells the reader what the collected data is saying it creates a little place in an otherwise confusing space. Truth and liberty are entwined in a self-reinforcing loop. When we design a good visualization we aren’t just conveying our best understanding of a truth; by sharing our contemplation of that truth, we’re also making ourselves and our readers freer.

I. Unruly, unmoored A tempest of questions In the car seat swrils II. The car seat is full Of a tidal wave Of question marks III. A flood of questions Pool in the car seat Doubting the universe IV. Between the tides of questions The car seat is both Raft and the sea V. Asleep The cauldron of the car seat Brews Questions Thank you, Olivia Dean — Dive