🔥Kareem Carr 🔥
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Hot Take: People seem to think models like GPT and DALL-E imply deep learning models are special but I don't think this makes sense given what people claim about deep learning. He...
A basic misunderstanding about the difference between medicine and public health is hurting our ability to talk about covid and making us all less safe. https://t.co/6mA8trKb6r
As a Biostatistics PhD candidate at the Harvard School of Public Health, I gotta say this: ⚠️ Public health is inherently political ⚠️ https://t.co/JNDSGAUkGC
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chatgpt would be 1000x more powerful for me as an academic if i could fine tune it to specific knowledge sources. imagine being able to have a "conversation" with the collected wor...
Does ChatGPT "know" things? I don't think it does because it doesn't have a way of checking its statements against the state of the real world.
What if Twitter dies? How are we going to keep laughing and learning about data science and statistics? I have the answer! Sign up for my substack so we can keep in touch: https:/...
I honestly don't think $8 a month is that much. The only problem is I have no idea what I'm paying for.
A lot of people think math is never ambiguous which is false. 0⁰ is a perfect example of what ambiguity looks like in mathematics. 👇🧵
Statistics isn't just applied math. Read this to learn about the seven powerful ideas that make statistical thinking different:
My biggest concern with Elon buying Twitter is I'm not sure he gets how important journalists, writers, public intellectuals and academics are to the legitimacy of the platform. T...
I think we can all agree that math class should be a place where kids learn how to use their reason to derive truths from first principles, not a dull recital of sacred truths. Pu...