Nope. This paper is about US academics 1900-1960! The present looks different.Asking people to stop drawing inference from these stats as if they're about the present& asking authors to put time period in their title and abstract!🙏 https://t.co/bphnK6Hy7H— Anna Stansbury (@annastansbury) December 31, 2024
Does Your Brain Think Accurately About Time?
Chicago Booth’s Kristin Donnelly talks about her research on time-duration asymmetry.
Dylan Wiliam on Twitter / X
The best journal article titles tell you what the study actually found, rather than being a teaser to make you read the paper. Here's a good example: "Spaced mathematics practice improves test scores and reduces overconfidence" https://t.co/iXxdkAgYPM ($)— Dylan Wiliam (@dylanwiliam) December 31, 2024
Speculations on the Future of the Scientific Method
The following essay was published 20 years ago (January, 2006) on my blog The Technium. I edited the intro here, but the speculations are basically unchanged.
How we got here
Wherein our hero, in this publication's inaugural, dates himself (as if others would) in a reminiscence of computers and websites past.
32 Years of New York Times Website Design History - 23 Images - Version Museum
A comprehensive visual history of New York Times from 1994 to 2026. See a gallery of the New York Times evolution from the beginning to present day.
In search of Spime Script ...
The rants and raves of Simon Wardley on Evolution, Technology, Economics and Business
An update on leap seconds – Tony Finch
It has been a couple of years since my previous blog post about leap seconds, though I have been tweeting on the topic fairly frequently: see my page on date, time, and leap seconds for an index of threads. But Twitter now seems a lot less likely to stick around, so I’ll aim to collect more of my thinking-out-loud here on my blog.
A Fuller Statement About My Bluesky Posts
Let me paint a picture of what it was like to be a woman math major at the University of Chicago circa 2004.
A Statistical Interrogation of “The Case for Causality, Part 1” by Rausch and Haidt – Matthew B. Jané
I don’t know anything about the literature on social media and mental health so my focus on this post is to interrogate the statistical approach taken by the article written by Zach Rausch and Jonathon Haidt (link here) and to some extent the original meta-analysis by Ferguson.
The Who Cares Era | dansinker.com
Earlier this week, it was discovered that the Chicago Sun-Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer had both published an externally-produced "special supplement" that contained facts, experts, and book titles entirely made up by an AI chatbot. There's been a lot written about this (former Chicago Reader editor Martha Bayne's is the best), and I don't need to rehash it all. But the thing that is most disheartening to me is how at every step along the way, nobody cared.
Here is some standard.site docs stats. There may be imperfections in this data but it's interesting nonetheless ~3,820 weekly active authors ~2,200 daily active authors (58% of WAA post any given weekday) 73% day-over-day retention among daily posters Net author growth of ~+200/day
Standard.site - One schema. Every platform.
standard.siteThe present no longer lasts long enough to be a setting. All fiction is either science fiction or historical fiction. I've been saying this for long enough that even this statement itself is no longer true. The future doesn't last long enough either. All science fiction is now retrofuturism.
Has anyone looked at this paper more closely? I've seen many of my bachelor students refer to it when it comes to depressive disorders. Authors find worldwide depression rates doubled from 1990 to 2020, which seems like a lot. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40313474/
Trends in Prevalent Cases and Disability-Adjusted Life-Years of Depressive Disorders Worldwide: Findings From the Global Burden of Disease Study From 1990 to 2021 - PubMed
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov"Historical pragmatism and the internet" by James Carey (2005) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1461444805054107
I feel seen "When is an economist not an economist?" (aka Fran's continuing professional identity crisis) ft.com/content/89f06927-5728-4e24-9a…
When is an economist not an economist?
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