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Thinks about philosophy of science, AI ethics, machine learning, models, & metascience. postdoc @ Princeton.

Mel Andrews

@bayesianboy

I’m not like the other Bayesians. I’m different. Thinks about philosophy of science, AI ethics, machine learning, models, & metascience. postdoc @ Princeton.

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My article on AI for science, in which I characterize a deviant notion of scientific objectivity rooted in the impossible ideal of theory-free inference, is available now open-access in Erkenntnis link.springer.com/article/10.100…


teaching students through misspellings provocatively: inciting provocation provacatively: promoting bovine supremacy


I had the privilege of delivering my first talk at @Princeton @PrincetonCITP today on epistemic deficiencies of algorithmic fairness.

bayesianboy's tweet image. I had the privilege of delivering my first talk at @Princeton @PrincetonCITP today on epistemic deficiencies of algorithmic fairness.

RIP to the farmer’s almanac. astrology for corn is dead.

After more than two centuries in print, The Farmers’ Almanac will end its run with its 2026 edition. The publication was known for long-term weather predictions, fishing and gardening guides. Read more: abcnews.link/JqrjHYA

ABC's tweet image. After more than two centuries in print, The Farmers’ Almanac will end its run with its 2026 edition.
 
The publication was known for long-term weather predictions, fishing and gardening guides.
 
Read more: abcnews.link/JqrjHYA


Alternatively, according to this account, women’s norms of epistemic deference are innate, while men are essentially… poultry.

bayesianboy's tweet image. Alternatively, according to this account, women’s norms of epistemic deference are innate, while men are essentially… poultry.
bayesianboy's tweet image. Alternatively, according to this account, women’s norms of epistemic deference are innate, while men are essentially… poultry.

Sometimes I look around me and think: I don’t think any of us, not a one of us, has the right heuristics for when to cede epistemic authority in an information ecology such as this.



Sometimes I look around me and think: I don’t think any of us, not a one of us, has the right heuristics for when to cede epistemic authority in an information ecology such as this.


Sometimes the Germans cannot help themselves and the glee over genocide just seeps out unprompted.

The German journalist who tweeted this ⬇️ was just given his own show on German public TV ZDF sueddeutsche.de/medien/jan-fle… Lord help us 🤮

giulio_mattioli's tweet image. The German journalist who tweeted this ⬇️ was just given his own show on German public TV ZDF sueddeutsche.de/medien/jan-fle… 

Lord help us 🤮


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The German journalist who tweeted this ⬇️ was just given his own show on German public TV ZDF sueddeutsche.de/medien/jan-fle… Lord help us 🤮

giulio_mattioli's tweet image. The German journalist who tweeted this ⬇️ was just given his own show on German public TV ZDF sueddeutsche.de/medien/jan-fle… 

Lord help us 🤮

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