Reposted by Dan MacLeanAdam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 20/07/2026“I got Claude Fable to do this analysis and write this paper. I’m posting it here, but I haven’t checked it yet.” WELL CHECK IT THEN. WHY ARE YOU POSTING THINGS YOU CAN’T BE BOTHERED TO READ. 47812
Dan MacLean @danmaclean.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains 010
Reposted by Dan MacLeanMick @mick002.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Fucking bluesky intelligencia wanking each other off while criticising the crowds at the football singing "Wonderwall". It's not about the song, it's about shared joy & social cohesion. Having travelled thousands of miles to support the team, they can sing whatever they want. Good luck to them. 172
Reposted by Dan MacLeanKarsten Konrad 🇪🇺 @zabong69.bsky.social · 17/06/2026The fractal Mandelbrot set is sometimes called "Apfelmännchen" ("little apple man") in German. My local Gemma 4 model and I clearly had a misunderstanding when I asked it - in German - to write Python code that draws a Mandelbrot set. 4223
Reposted by Dan MacLeanAmy @lolennui.bsky.social · 12/06/2026guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one. 363252284863
Dan MacLean @danmaclean.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Ha! The British public are being asked to vote what's going on the new edition of the banknotes. How will we Boaty McBoatface this one? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukPuffin and bumblebee among 18 creatures shortlisted to feature on banknotesThe Bank of England is asking the public which animals should appear on future banknotes. 011
Reposted by Dan MacLeanwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Britain is home to almost half of the world’s bluebells, found in ancient or semi-natural woodlands, flowering in April and May. 'Bluebell woods' by contemporary UK painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt 133346528
Dan MacLean @danmaclean.bsky.social · 02/04/2026It's not a staycation if you actually go somewhere. 000
Reposted by Dan MacLeanCRAN Package Updates Bot @cranberriesfeed.bsky.social · 30/03/2026New CRAN package peppwR with initial version 0.1.0 #rstats cran.r-project.org/package=peppwRcran.r-project.orgCRAN: Package peppwREstimate best fit distributions and do power analysis for hypothesis tests on phosphopeptide abundance data. 001
Reposted by Dan MacLeanUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think 04817
Reposted by Dan MacLeanPetter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 07/11/2025LLMs are now widely used in social science as stand-ins for humans—assuming they can produce realistic, human-like text But... can they? We don’t actually know. In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test. And our findings are striking: LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵arxiv.orgComputational Turing Test Reveals Systematic Differences Between Human and AI LanguageLarge language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in the social sciences to simulate human behavior, based on the assumption that they can generate realistic, human-like text. Yet this assumption rem... 14329131
Reposted by Dan MacLeanAdam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 15/10/2025(With apologies to Randall Munroe) 18318
Reposted by Dan MacLeanAndrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 08/10/2025I really really really liked The Oatmeal’s take on AI here theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_arttheoatmeal.comA cartoonist's review of AI art - The OatmealThis is a comic about AI art. 37023
Reposted by Dan MacLeanNick Talbot @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social · 07/10/2025New pre-print from our group showing remarkable synchrony of proliferative growth and regulated cell death during plant infection- each conidial cell has a different fate - by the rice blast fungus. Led by Alice Eseola with @osesmir.bsky.social Lauren Ryder @danmaclean.bsky.social and Martin Egan 12010
Reposted by Dan MacLeanBen McKennaaaargh @benmckenna.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Great to hear Burnham's been to Mancwalk 2000. 0227
Reposted by Dan MacLeanChristian Minich @christianminich.com · 16/09/2025Normalize never saying "leverage" or "utilize" as a verb. Tempted? "Use" is right there! Simple words are better words 121
Reposted by Dan MacLeanSomersetWhovian 💙 🇺🇦 @clairecopperman.bsky.social · 01/09/2025"It has never been clearer: this is a class war, mediated through one person." Love this article from @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social. I snorted several times, but she makes some serious points: in the eyes of the tabloids, the working class Rayner can't win, whatever she does.theguardian.comWhy are the tabloids so enraged about every aspect of Angela Rayner’s life? | Zoe WilliamsWhether it’s her housing, clothes, the restaurants she goes to, or the fact she watches opera and drinks wine, she can apparently do nothing right, writes Guardian columnist Zoe Williams 1209
Dan MacLean @danmaclean.bsky.social · 31/07/2025$ ls -laht drwxrwsr-x 3 uname grp 27 Nov 16 2006 .nautilus drwxrws--- 3 uname grp 26 Nov 16 2006 .metacity -rwxrwx--- 1 uname grp 26 Nov 16 2006 .dmrc 😐 000
Reposted by Dan MacLeanGigaScience Journal @gigascience.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Chris outlining the different AI coding agents that can be used for ontology development. Working on documenting best practices for this ai4curation.GitHub.io/aidocs #BOSC2025 #ISMBECCB2025 053
Reposted by Dan MacLeanGigaScience Journal @gigascience.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Today #BOSC2025 and #BOKR (formerly Bioontologies) COSI’s, Chris Mungall is doing the keynote on Open KBs in the age of generative AI #ISMBECCB2025 123
Reposted by Dan MacLeanDarakhshan Nehal @darakhshann.bsky.social · 22/07/2025*Learning visualization in Python as an R user* #ggplot 4355
Reposted by Dan MacLeanfesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 21/07/2025I work with a lot of very intelligent people - the experts in a very select field - yet every morning they fight over the parking spots in the shade. By lunchtime they're all in full sun and my unwanted "sunny" spot keeps my car nice and cool. They never learn. 1341812
Reposted by Dan MacLeanClaus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 12/07/2025AlphaFold is great, but contrary to public opinion it has not completely solved the protein folding problem. Much work remains to be done. clauswilke.substack.com/p/no-alphafo...clauswilke.substack.comNo, AlphaFold has not completely solved protein foldingBiology is hard. Yes, even for AI. 312265
Dan MacLean @danmaclean.bsky.social · 13/07/2025open.substack.com/pub/clauswil...open.substack.comNo, AlphaFold has not completely solved protein foldingBiology is hard. Yes, even for AI. 010
Reposted by Dan MacLeanMichael Love @mikelove.bsky.social · 13/07/2025I recently ran a session at CSAMA with Laurent Gatto and this is the way. "Good enough" with knowledge of the tools that can help you get there. Here's some of the recs from the paper. 1378
Reposted by Dan MacLeanMel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social · 12/06/2025I told you we’d be back 15674307512663
Reposted by Dan MacLeanda share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 14/05/2025"AI" - dashare.zone ADMIN 045801805
Reposted by Dan MacLeanMostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 22/04/2025"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." 0115
Reposted by Dan MacLeanDirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel.com · 01/04/2025#Rstats is being rewritten in Rust, and the R Core already has a book coming out! 10659
Reposted by Dan MacLeanMostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 29/03/2025The frightening thing about the Vogons was their absolute mindless determination to do whatever mindless thing it was they were determined to do. There was never any point in trying to appeal to their reason because they didn't have any. 01411
Reposted by Dan MacLeanOded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 28/03/2025"A GO term analysis? how is this helpful?" 210415
Reposted by Dan MacLeanCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/02/2025This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims flowingdata.com/projects/dis...flowingdata.comDefense Against Dishonest ChartsThis is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things. 531212441
Reposted by Dan MacLeanLonni Besançon @lonnibesancon.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Plenty of tortured phrases (arxiv.org/abs/2107.0...) in this #IEEE paper. ieeexplore.ieee.org/... My pubpeer report: pubpeer.com/publicat... 063
Reposted by Dan MacLeanMostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 13/03/2025"They would appear," said Ford doubtfully, "to have turned into a bowl of petunias and a very surprised looking whale..." 021
Reposted by Dan MacLeanChristian Minich @christianminich.com · 07/03/2025I don’t know what vibe coding means and I don’t intend to find out! 111
Reposted by Dan MacLeanAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Im often frustrated by my lack of time, and resentful of how much busywork I have to do in my job, but reviewing is never a "wasted workday". Im often late with them, but reviewing is about respect, reciprocity and being part of a community of scholars--those who review my work are similarly busy. 5619
Reposted by Dan MacLeanMatthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 28/02/2025“Language behavior cannot, in its entirety, be captured in representations appropriate for automation and computational processing. Written language constitutes only part of human linguistic activity” www.theregister.com/2024/08/30/a...theregister.comHave we stopped to think about what LLMs actually model?Claims about much-hyped tech show flawed understanding of language and cognition, research argues 0196
Reposted by Dan MacLeanReuben Binns @rdbinns.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training. I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential. 5544031392
Reposted by Dan MacLeanAndrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 10/02/2025In 2020 this was merely a very funny tweet. Now it’s the top answer when you ask Google “What is soup?” 191171277
Reposted by Dan MacLeanRichard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Amazing to me how useful looking at data in 2D PCA continues to be, even though the approach sounds crazy on paper—"p-dimensional ellipsoid", rantings of a madman. PCA is the cockroach of dimension reduction. I expect it to be present in any advanced galactic civilization. 38812