Reposted by Travis KorteKate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Goated quote from the late Marty Weitzman in @geoffmann.bsky.social lecture at Sydney Uni SSPS 2115
Reposted by Travis KorteMalcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 10/09/2026we have this little problem where we are always selecting on the data that we *have* 0205
Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · 15/08/2026A lot of people have a folk theory of “complicity” (distinct from the legal concept) that I think is obviously indefensible 120
Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · 14/08/2026First ballot hall of fame bluesky post that is somehow only four hours old 0628
Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Need a map of theoretically predicted but not yet experimentally observed dogs 100
Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Someone's takeaway from reading Blindsight was that we should build the Scramblers news.cornell.edu/stories/2026... 060
Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Sometimes you're reading a paper and you come across a sentence that stops you in your tracks. 010
Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Christian Metz has a good line: “every film is a fiction film” — and it was already true long before generative video 021
Reposted by Travis KorteLinnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 19/02/2026GUYS have you seen this. antarctica on google maps. go look at it. this is tech struggling to process the Sublime 6744197
Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Thought this was a SIGGRAPH poster for a second 120
Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · 03/02/2026This is giving me strong “elegant analogy for some broader societal phenomenon” vibes, but I can’t figure out what to compare to it. 020
Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Ok this post has kind of taken a life of its own so I feel I need to go on the record and say: all observation is theory-laden, all measurement is approximation, and humans don't have access to an objective reality. 040
Reposted by Travis KorteCat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 16/01/2026not to say we shouldn’t be doing this. but I think the people who get mad about isposting hear an insufficient (to them) commitment to a better future, when that’s very much not what it always means. 1606
Reposted by Travis KorteCat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 16/01/2026I also think a rise in oughtposting is correlated with a feeling of helplessness: narrative is a powerful tool for imagining ways that things could be different, and I expect that people who are doing this are despairing of more practical paths to effect change. 2766
Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · 16/01/2026I have a theory that the general epistemic crisis has led to a lot of very online people getting used to communicating primarily through oughtposting and kind of forgetting how to deal with isposting 1459496
Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · 09/01/2026This does a good job articulating something I’ve been struggling to. Feels like so much contemporary media is now in the Zapruder Extended Universe. 071
Reposted by Travis KorteHunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 02/01/2026New Year: New Job? I'm hiring two Transit Data Scientists to work on SB125 and other transit programs with me at CalSTA calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...calcareers.ca.govSB125 Transit Data ScientistLooking to make a difference? Join our strong and mighty workforce. We offer benefits and growth opportunities and impact the lives of millions of Californians. 0107
Reposted by Travis KorteSeva @seva.bsky.social · 30/12/2025everyone thinks they’re a bayesian until they have to update their priors 424642
Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Maybe the internet would be better with tone indicators — like “/s” to indicate sarcasm — but for the is/ought distinction 120
Reposted by Travis KorteBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 15/11/2025we're too quick to mistake `what i know how to easily model' for `what is' and even `what should be'. 1326
Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Somebody posted this prompt, which attempts to make ChatGPT responses less friendly and more critical. Feels like a rich document for a science-and-technology-studies analysis. 3242
Reposted by Travis KorteJoe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 03/11/2025A lemma to the psychologists fallacy: any pair of variables have a single "true" relationship and that moderators mask this underlying Platonic association 152
Reposted by Travis KorteSiobhán @shibbi.me · 01/11/2025A community cannot be held accountable; therefore a community must never make a management decision. 2154
Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Coase, R. H. (1960). The Problem of Social Cost. The Journal of Law and Economics, 3, 1–44. 020
Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · 25/10/2025I just passed a billboard advertising Orlando with the slogan “unbelievably real” 020
Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · 08/10/2025I’ve been enjoying this meme a lot because “perceived vibes across different subfields within a domain” is always interesting but can be hard knowledge to come by from outside the domain. 010
Reposted by Travis KorteDarren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 26/09/2025It is *impossible* to "adjust for socioeconomic status" in a regression model. Discuss. And good morning! 🌞 10558
Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Lessons from civic tech: if the app claims it will solve potholes, it’s vaporware. 110
Reposted by Travis KorteJoe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 08/08/2025In the above figure, there's a government building next to "make it required". The #Openscience community requested this, and got it---of course nothing like they envisioned. It's a great time for #metascience to self reflect, engage with experts in weaponization of science, and re-examine rhetoric. 2155
Reposted by Travis KorteJoe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 08/08/2025The "make it required" part of the open science theory of change is embodied in this new executive order, which requires commitments to "gold standard" science for federal grants. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 1233
Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Love to be an involuntary participant in a colossal performance of Alvin Lucier's "I am sitting in a room" 020
Reposted by Travis Kortealex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 28/07/2025i guess if you really think about it there’s really only one “data-generating process” in the world and it’s called “measurement” 5544
Reposted by Travis KorteMatt Graham @mattgraham.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Causal evidence that "the proliferation of surveys may lead to lower response rates" doi.org/10.1093/jssa... 48222
Reposted by Travis Korterev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 13/06/2025this user has correctly divined how a LLM works: you imagine that you are talking to a person but you are actually talking to an abstract representation of the collective efforts of everybody involved in moving the pointer 766890
Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Principal component analysis is fine but this is why you should never name your components 1135
Reposted by Travis KorteNick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 23/05/2025when will people finally acknowledge the truth that "is 'data' plural?" is a red herring: singular and plural "data" both exist and mean different things 4151
Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · 16/05/2025The fact that antihistamines can be used to relieve itches and also as sleep aids has led me to the conclusion that Consciousness is a Form of Itch 16811189
Reposted by Travis KorteTom MacWright @macwright.com · 07/05/2025i'm not the right person to write an article about how ai training datasets are analogous to henry george's concept of 'land' and the profit generated by proprietary models built on stolen datasets are 'economic rents' but someone has to do it 0121
Reposted by Travis Korteae @aelkus.bsky.social · 30/04/2025living in a corrupt and unsafe environment is a computational tax. you suddenly have to *think* about the safety of things you take for granted, information processing resources you could have used for something else 04611
