Zach Hensel
@zachhensel.bsky.social
single-molecule microbiology lab @ ITQB NOVA in Portugal
https://zach-hensel.github.io/
https://zach-hensel.github.io/
It's gifting a few companies with valuations depending on their products not being replaceable with a moat... privileged access to data and selling the government products that depend on that data.
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
It's gifting a few companies with valuations depending on their products not being replaceable with a moat... privileged access to data and selling the government products that depend on that data.
Reposted by Zach Hensel
I share this with respect for the many excellent journalists at the BBC.
And with the hope that transparency helps strengthen, not weaken, our democratic culture. /5
And with the hope that transparency helps strengthen, not weaken, our democratic culture. /5
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I share this with respect for the many excellent journalists at the BBC.
And with the hope that transparency helps strengthen, not weaken, our democratic culture. /5
And with the hope that transparency helps strengthen, not weaken, our democratic culture. /5
Just asking questions.
November 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Just asking questions.
it's the second result if you search specifically for a refutation; yikes
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
it's the second result if you search specifically for a refutation; yikes
You know it's rough for climate change denial when you can't even cherry pick "pauses" in the data without seeing that the pauses are getting shorter.
November 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
You know it's rough for climate change denial when you can't even cherry pick "pauses" in the data without seeing that the pauses are getting shorter.
The specific question is here and was about extreme cold events in Oklahoma -- youtu.be/6bMG2Ds0sVA?... -- an observation that's reasonable for a 20-something to perceive and something with research supporting attribution to climate change.
What a weird dodge for an answer.
What a weird dodge for an answer.
November 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The specific question is here and was about extreme cold events in Oklahoma -- youtu.be/6bMG2Ds0sVA?... -- an observation that's reasonable for a 20-something to perceive and something with research supporting attribution to climate change.
What a weird dodge for an answer.
What a weird dodge for an answer.
Surely chat-gpt will sign off on the ethics of it with the right prompt.
November 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Surely chat-gpt will sign off on the ethics of it with the right prompt.
It's a particularly ironic answer with the context that's given in the event which was apparently about someone's personal experiences with extreme weather... which RPJr himself says has increased on that timescale.
November 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
It's a particularly ironic answer with the context that's given in the event which was apparently about someone's personal experiences with extreme weather... which RPJr himself says has increased on that timescale.
Vultures circling an administration too incompetent to spend the money they’re required to spend efficiently
November 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Vultures circling an administration too incompetent to spend the money they’re required to spend efficiently
Does an arms race make intuitive sense here? The timescales seem very different.
November 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Does an arms race make intuitive sense here? The timescales seem very different.
But they’re also increasingly good at assisting with literature search… so it should’ve been trivial to find a precedent if there was one to find.
November 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
But they’re also increasingly good at assisting with literature search… so it should’ve been trivial to find a precedent if there was one to find.
Yeah my response was that it’s very, very difficult not to encode the answer you want in your question. And LLMs are trained to tell you what you want to hear.
November 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Yeah my response was that it’s very, very difficult not to encode the answer you want in your question. And LLMs are trained to tell you what you want to hear.
Someone made an argument the other day, and I asked for any precedent in the literature, which one would expect to find if it was a good argument.
The eventual response was that Gemini, Chat-GPT, and Grok all agreed it was a plausible argument 🤷
The eventual response was that Gemini, Chat-GPT, and Grok all agreed it was a plausible argument 🤷
November 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Someone made an argument the other day, and I asked for any precedent in the literature, which one would expect to find if it was a good argument.
The eventual response was that Gemini, Chat-GPT, and Grok all agreed it was a plausible argument 🤷
The eventual response was that Gemini, Chat-GPT, and Grok all agreed it was a plausible argument 🤷
this update on the gisaid site is so weird gisaid.org/resources/st...
November 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
this update on the gisaid site is so weird gisaid.org/resources/st...
Colonialists taking all of the harvest away, apparently.
Also given what we learned a couple decades ago, palm-civet-based agriculture might be something to avoid.
Also given what we learned a couple decades ago, palm-civet-based agriculture might be something to avoid.
November 6, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Colonialists taking all of the harvest away, apparently.
Also given what we learned a couple decades ago, palm-civet-based agriculture might be something to avoid.
Also given what we learned a couple decades ago, palm-civet-based agriculture might be something to avoid.
Thanks! It's odd because the main analysis in the paper is just a way worse version of this -- github.com/alexcritschr... -- it's rhetorically useful that all 11 sites are so obviously natural, but probably the odds were against it with my simplified method since it's noisier.
November 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Thanks! It's odd because the main analysis in the paper is just a way worse version of this -- github.com/alexcritschr... -- it's rhetorically useful that all 11 sites are so obviously natural, but probably the odds were against it with my simplified method since it's noisier.
This was obviously false when published... I'm most interested in learning how it was influential in spite of this and if it's possible to prevent a repeat in the future.
November 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
This was obviously false when published... I'm most interested in learning how it was influential in spite of this and if it's possible to prevent a repeat in the future.
It wouldn't be so tough to produce these figures for each election and update quickly, but you'd have to be ready each election to handle whatever secretaries of state decide to change and you'd be lagging the AP data everyone pays for.
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
It wouldn't be so tough to produce these figures for each election and update quickly, but you'd have to be ready each election to handle whatever secretaries of state decide to change and you'd be lagging the AP data everyone pays for.
I forgot how well McMullin did in Utah
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I forgot how well McMullin did in Utah
Quick search and can't find any free source for results data in general e.g., scraping the Secretary of State pages.
November 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Quick search and can't find any free source for results data in general e.g., scraping the Secretary of State pages.
The other way to do it that's less intuitively confusing for people is to center circles on each jurisdiction scaled by population size and expand them until they can't be expanded anymore... but I think we have worse intuition for relative areas of circles than relative areas of random weird shapes
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The other way to do it that's less intuitively confusing for people is to center circles on each jurisdiction scaled by population size and expand them until they can't be expanded anymore... but I think we have worse intuition for relative areas of circles than relative areas of random weird shapes
In that picture I think there's a white spot where Bedford City is since it is no longer independent... matching jurisdiction names was the only tricky part and I'm sure there's a good data source out there to avoid that.
November 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
In that picture I think there's a white spot where Bedford City is since it is no longer independent... matching jurisdiction names was the only tricky part and I'm sure there's a good data source out there to avoid that.