I just pushed a new paper to arXiv. I realized that a lot of my previous work on robust losses and nerf-y things was dancing around something simpler: a slight tweak to the classic Box-Cox power transform that makes it much more useful and stable. It's this f(x, λ) here: pic.twitter.com/GZsA8BYbEe
— Jon Barron (@jon_barron) February 18, 2025
contributed by Andy on Feb 18, 2025 in curves, future fields medalists
Something happened in year 774 that was so powerful we can measure the radioactivity in old tree rings. Best guess is a solar flare, 10 times more powerful than the Carrington Event in 1859 that zapped telegraph wires.
— Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) February 14, 2025
Worth considering the effect of the next one.
Details:… pic.twitter.com/jfFRHbDwsL
contributed by Andy on Feb 14, 2025 in trees, eek
My textbook now includes an updated figure from Carter & McCullough, 2014. It's now generated from the raw data. It's a striking image. The uncorrected effect size is d = 0.62 based on 198 studies. Now, large replications later, we know the true effect size is 0. What a waste. pic.twitter.com/7DvHhFuyjK
— Daniël Lakens (@lakens) June 12, 2023
contributed by Andy on Jun 12, 2023 in hard to parse, acronyms, replication
Los Angeles compared to other cities pic.twitter.com/xsgFobICo6
— BuccoCapital Bloke (@buccocapital) May 29, 2023
contributed by Andy on May 29, 2023 in small multiples, things that go up, bloomberg
The geographic pattern of house price change in the Northeast since the pandemic began is just stunning. Demand is being pushed out of expensive places pic.twitter.com/nks3ZGpWgI
— Adam Ozimek (@ModeledBehavior) May 26, 2023
contributed by Andy on May 26, 2023 in covid, progress?, actually this is a map
Adam, a 9-yr old optimizer, is the go-to for training LLMs (eg, GPT-3, OPT, LLAMA).
— Tengyu Ma (@tengyuma) May 24, 2023
Introducing Sophia, a new optimizer that is 2x faster than Adam on LLMs. Just a few more lines of code could cut your costs from $2M to $1M (if scaling laws hold).https://t.co/GrMY600lLO 🧵⬇️ pic.twitter.com/bPLCOWcIHZ
contributed by Andy on May 24, 2023 in curves, small multiples
Another example: Take two glasses of equally sweet water and mix them together. Children of intermediate age think that the resulting solution will be sweeter than the originals! Similar results have been found for water temperature. pic.twitter.com/vf1o2ihwMj
— Chris Said (@Chris_Said) April 21, 2023
contributed by Andy on Apr 21, 2023 in curves
The Green Revolution in one chart
— Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp) January 17, 2023
Food abundance is very good and underrated pic.twitter.com/9K1DzuFqy7
contributed by Andy on Jan 17, 2023 in progress, things that go up
This map shows how far you can travel from each station in Europe in less than 5 hours!
— Xavi Ruiz (@xruiztru) November 3, 2022
👉🏼 https://t.co/QLO21YSVsR
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contributed by Andy on Nov 4, 2022 in actually this is a map
it looks like it really is illiteracy that made people vote PT LOL pic.twitter.com/ZtPwXao5C9
— iabvek (@iabvek) October 11, 2022
contributed by Andy on Nov 3, 2022 in elections, hard to parse