Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
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Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Carl Theodore Bergstrom is a theoretical and evolutionary biologist and a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, United States. Bergstrom is a critic of low-quality or misleading scientific research. He is the co-author of a book on misinformation called Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World and teaches a class by the same name at University of Washington. .. more
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
Reposted by Carl T. Bergstrom
If you're in Wellington or fancy a visit, check out the program.
www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/conferences/...
*or even cease to subsidize, in some cases.
Reposted by Dietram A. Scheufele, Carl T. Bergstrom
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
I'm blown away by this photo of the football team lined up on the dirt of main street, 101 years ago.
For the record I did none of the above though the cover artist did me no favors.
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
This will get someone killed sooner or later.
Nothing funnier than technology-induced mental illness.
Or something.
Last thing I'm going to do is publicly mock people dealing with mental health challenges for being exploited by OpenAI etc.