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
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It's why I thought Woody Allen's films were brilliant when I was a kid. The people in those films talked the way the people our family knew talked.
It explains "high-involvement" conversational style and the notion of cooperative overlapping.
It explained why my former wife and her family thought I was exceptionally rude at the dinner table when I thought I was doing my damnedest to engage.
Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Dorothy Bishop
In Japanese, pukupuku (ぷくぷく) is an onomatopoeic word describing something cute, chubby, pudgy, or puffed up.
The two languages are from divergent language families. So WTF?
(Photo not mine; credit in alt)
Reposted by Carl T. Bergstrom
seriously you think imma let you steal them???
Reposted by Brian Keegan, Greg Linden
Reposted by Stephen D. Murphy, Ondřej Mottl
If not, get yourself one.