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
But this is a rage post. You need to read this gift article because you need to be enraged.
Reposted by Carl T. Bergstrom
It's a reliable reference precisely because it's both well-vetted and *well-sourced*. It's so useful precisely b/c the claims therein are justified by citations to good sources.
Reposted by Carl T. Bergstrom
www.otago.ac.nz/news/events/...
I'm going to go ahead and post some shots before carefully editing and sorting; I'm already falling hopelessly behind.
Let's start with a variable oystercatcher chick and parent. 🪶
Walking without a light, I heard the kiwi before I saw him. He was completely unafraid and we spent 10 minutes together.
“I love you” I said as he disappeared into the scrub.