Jan Freyberg
@janfreyberg.com
Machine Learning researcher at Google Health, working on human centered medical AI. Trained in neuroscience, untrained but enthusiastic cyclist
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New preprint! We are pleased to share our Hierarchical Bayesian framework for Interoceptive Psychophysics! Implemented in rstan, we provide a complete suite of tools spanning model comparison, parameter recovery, multifactor designs, power analysis, and more! 🎯 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 2, 2025 at 8:09 AM
New preprint! We are pleased to share our Hierarchical Bayesian framework for Interoceptive Psychophysics! Implemented in rstan, we provide a complete suite of tools spanning model comparison, parameter recovery, multifactor designs, power analysis, and more! 🎯 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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>10 years on and i still haven't seen a single question answered with clustering
August 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
>10 years on and i still haven't seen a single question answered with clustering
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Gaza | The scale of human suffering and the stripping of human dignity have long exceeded every acceptable standard, both legal and moral.
This tragedy must end now.
Mirjana Spoljaric, ICRC President: ms.spr.ly/63327sGyPt
This tragedy must end now.
Mirjana Spoljaric, ICRC President: ms.spr.ly/63327sGyPt
July 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Gaza | The scale of human suffering and the stripping of human dignity have long exceeded every acceptable standard, both legal and moral.
This tragedy must end now.
Mirjana Spoljaric, ICRC President: ms.spr.ly/63327sGyPt
This tragedy must end now.
Mirjana Spoljaric, ICRC President: ms.spr.ly/63327sGyPt
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This is a great article about "AI" and art:
“AI” doesn’t lie. It’s not deceitful, it doesn’t have feelings: it is broken. Those who are selling AI products encourage people to anthropomorphize it because doing so avoids language that indicates what a garbage product it is they’re selling. Or, as I wrote here: www.artforum.com/features/gen...
July 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This is a great article about "AI" and art:
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Sleep when the baby sleeps, eat when the baby eats, edit your manuscript when the baby edits their manuscript
October 2, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Sleep when the baby sleeps, eat when the baby eats, edit your manuscript when the baby edits their manuscript
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John «most of my published research is wrong» Ioannidis
July 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
John «most of my published research is wrong» Ioannidis
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New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
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We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
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Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature
An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.
www.nature.com
June 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
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We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
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The open access movement has been captured by the publishers, and the journal system is worse than ever. Suggestions like open review do nothing to make research or peer review better, nothing to break the bullshit of rewarding people for simply publishing, right or wrong.
Where is our courage?
Where is our courage?
“In all my discussions with scientists across every sector, exactly zero think the journal system works well.”
Some will disagree with aspects of Seemay’s analysis but this point is undoubtedly true open.substack.com/pub/asterain...?
Some will disagree with aspects of Seemay’s analysis but this point is undoubtedly true open.substack.com/pub/asterain...?
Scientific Publishing: Enough is Enough
Why we're no longer funding journal publications
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June 19, 2025 at 7:36 AM
The open access movement has been captured by the publishers, and the journal system is worse than ever. Suggestions like open review do nothing to make research or peer review better, nothing to break the bullshit of rewarding people for simply publishing, right or wrong.
Where is our courage?
Where is our courage?
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Pilot Whale
You know what time it is? That's right! It's time to plug my work again! Yay!
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You know what time it is? That's right! It's time to plug my work again! Yay!
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May 15, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Pilot Whale
You know what time it is? That's right! It's time to plug my work again! Yay!
www.worldofmoose.com/products/pil...
You know what time it is? That's right! It's time to plug my work again! Yay!
www.worldofmoose.com/products/pil...
Really wonderful podcast. This episode was my introduction to it but I've listened to a few now. Also noticed that @kathrynnave.bsky.social is on Bluesky!
Fabulous discussion with Dr. Kate Nave - wide-ranging, nuanced, clear, smart thinking about agency, purpose, life, cybernetics, the FEP, process philosophy and lots more! open.spotify.com/episode/4PKy...
Life, free energy, and the pursuit of goals
Many Minds · Episode
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May 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Really wonderful podcast. This episode was my introduction to it but I've listened to a few now. Also noticed that @kathrynnave.bsky.social is on Bluesky!
Technically released last week, here is a paper from me and my team: multimodal conversational diagnostic AI. We extend previous work on AMIE and enable it to request, reason about, and report on images.
AMIE gains vision: A research AI agent for multimodal diagnostic dialogue
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May 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Technically released last week, here is a paper from me and my team: multimodal conversational diagnostic AI. We extend previous work on AMIE and enable it to request, reason about, and report on images.
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Study in Nature: “Across 30 out of 32 evaluation axes from the specialist physician perspective & 25 out of 26 evaluation axes from the patient-actor perspective, AMIE [Google Medical LLM] was rated superior to PCPs [primary care docs] while being non-inferior on the rest.”
(& AIME is an older LLM)
(& AIME is an older LLM)
May 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Study in Nature: “Across 30 out of 32 evaluation axes from the specialist physician perspective & 25 out of 26 evaluation axes from the patient-actor perspective, AMIE [Google Medical LLM] was rated superior to PCPs [primary care docs] while being non-inferior on the rest.”
(& AIME is an older LLM)
(& AIME is an older LLM)
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I quite enjoyed this 'Experiments, Causal Inference, and Limits of Evidence' event, particularly @devezer.bsky.social's talk, which aligns well with my own views as well as Nancy Cartwright's scepticism.
Thanks a lot to the organisers.
Thanks a lot to the organisers.
April 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I quite enjoyed this 'Experiments, Causal Inference, and Limits of Evidence' event, particularly @devezer.bsky.social's talk, which aligns well with my own views as well as Nancy Cartwright's scepticism.
Thanks a lot to the organisers.
Thanks a lot to the organisers.
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This paper is the result of >20 yrs of hard work by talented students, postdocs and collaborators, but none more than my co-author Ren Ng and his team in EECS.
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Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale
Image display by cell-by-cell retina stimulation, enabling colors impossible to see under natural viewing.
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April 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This paper is the result of >20 yrs of hard work by talented students, postdocs and collaborators, but none more than my co-author Ren Ng and his team in EECS.
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Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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That is why psychophysics works so well. As it is experiments on psychophysicists whose natural habitat is a darkened room sitting in front of a CRT
April 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
That is why psychophysics works so well. As it is experiments on psychophysicists whose natural habitat is a darkened room sitting in front of a CRT
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Paris Proves the Power of Pedals: How Cycling Helped Cut Pollution in Half.
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Paris Proves the Power of Pedals: How Cycling Helped Cut Pollution in Half
So how did Paris, once choked with vehicle traffic and notorious for its pollution, pull off such a turnaround?
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April 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Paris Proves the Power of Pedals: How Cycling Helped Cut Pollution in Half.
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Where at Duolingo do I send in my sick note to get my streak reinstated?
April 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Where at Duolingo do I send in my sick note to get my streak reinstated?
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Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher!
Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies.
Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com
#RStats #PyData
Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher!
Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies.
Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com
#RStats #PyData
April 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher!
Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies.
Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com
#RStats #PyData
Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher!
Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies.
Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com
#RStats #PyData
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Sam Altman pretending to be amazed by absolute dogshit, #4948829:
March 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Sam Altman pretending to be amazed by absolute dogshit, #4948829:
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The German word for what I just did? Rathausposten
February 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The German word for what I just did? Rathausposten