Georg K.
@gekue.bsky.social
Geography | Climate | Energy | Development Cooperation | Statistics | R
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We asked 3,785 PhD students across 107 countries about their experiences. Where do you think the happiest doctoral candidates were?
go.nature.com/43usVmf
go.nature.com/43usVmf
Are these the happiest PhD students in the world?
Nature - Brazil, Australia and Italy have the highest satisfaction scores in Nature’s global 2025 PhD survey — but are these nations really the best places to do a doctorate?
go.nature.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
We asked 3,785 PhD students across 107 countries about their experiences. Where do you think the happiest doctoral candidates were?
go.nature.com/43usVmf
go.nature.com/43usVmf
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We now have some data on the environmental impact per AI prompt:
Gemini: 0.00024 kWh & 0.26 mL water
ChatGPT: 0.0003 kWh & 0.38 mL
...the same energy as one Google search in 2008 & 6 drops of water. Seems to be improving, too: Google reports a 33x drop in energy use per prompt in a year.
But...
Gemini: 0.00024 kWh & 0.26 mL water
ChatGPT: 0.0003 kWh & 0.38 mL
...the same energy as one Google search in 2008 & 6 drops of water. Seems to be improving, too: Google reports a 33x drop in energy use per prompt in a year.
But...
August 22, 2025 at 4:40 AM
We now have some data on the environmental impact per AI prompt:
Gemini: 0.00024 kWh & 0.26 mL water
ChatGPT: 0.0003 kWh & 0.38 mL
...the same energy as one Google search in 2008 & 6 drops of water. Seems to be improving, too: Google reports a 33x drop in energy use per prompt in a year.
But...
Gemini: 0.00024 kWh & 0.26 mL water
ChatGPT: 0.0003 kWh & 0.38 mL
...the same energy as one Google search in 2008 & 6 drops of water. Seems to be improving, too: Google reports a 33x drop in energy use per prompt in a year.
But...
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Long-term study suggests that the more heatwaves people are exposed to, the more it accelerates body ageing.
go.nature.com/45y7hiG
go.nature.com/45y7hiG
Repeated heatwaves can age you as much as smoking or drinking
Long-term study suggests that the more heatwaves people are exposed to, the more it accelerates body ageing.
go.nature.com
August 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Long-term study suggests that the more heatwaves people are exposed to, the more it accelerates body ageing.
go.nature.com/45y7hiG
go.nature.com/45y7hiG
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This new IDOS #PolicyBrief outlines five guidelines for a #DevelopmentPolicy strategy that considers Germany’s own interests without harming partner countries: doi.org/10.23661/ipb...
August 26, 2025 at 9:27 AM
This new IDOS #PolicyBrief outlines five guidelines for a #DevelopmentPolicy strategy that considers Germany’s own interests without harming partner countries: doi.org/10.23661/ipb...
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An AI model (Llama 3.1 70B) fine-tuned on the results of 60,000 people in psychology experiments shows some real promise in using LLMs for studying and predicting human behavior.
It predicts actual human behavior in held-out data & it generalizes to out-of-distribution tasks and experiments.
It predicts actual human behavior in held-out data & it generalizes to out-of-distribution tasks and experiments.
July 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
An AI model (Llama 3.1 70B) fine-tuned on the results of 60,000 people in psychology experiments shows some real promise in using LLMs for studying and predicting human behavior.
It predicts actual human behavior in held-out data & it generalizes to out-of-distribution tasks and experiments.
It predicts actual human behavior in held-out data & it generalizes to out-of-distribution tasks and experiments.
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Optimizing AIs for engagement has always been a likely path forward, and it is also a very fraught one.
I wrote about this after GPT-4o became very sycophantic (a change that was rolled back), but I think it is even more relevant given Grok’s anime companions. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/personalit...
I wrote about this after GPT-4o became very sycophantic (a change that was rolled back), but I think it is even more relevant given Grok’s anime companions. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/personalit...
Personality and Persuasion
Learning from Sycophants
www.oneusefulthing.org
July 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Optimizing AIs for engagement has always been a likely path forward, and it is also a very fraught one.
I wrote about this after GPT-4o became very sycophantic (a change that was rolled back), but I think it is even more relevant given Grok’s anime companions. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/personalit...
I wrote about this after GPT-4o became very sycophantic (a change that was rolled back), but I think it is even more relevant given Grok’s anime companions. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/personalit...
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Gemma 3n just dropped - a natively multimodal model that runs entirely on your device. No cloud. No API calls.
🧠 Text, image, audio, and video
⚡️Only needs 2B in GPU memory to run
🤯 First sub-10B model to hit 1300+ Elo
✅ Plug-and-play with Hugging Face, MLX, llama.cpp...
🧠 Text, image, audio, and video
⚡️Only needs 2B in GPU memory to run
🤯 First sub-10B model to hit 1300+ Elo
✅ Plug-and-play with Hugging Face, MLX, llama.cpp...
June 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Gemma 3n just dropped - a natively multimodal model that runs entirely on your device. No cloud. No API calls.
🧠 Text, image, audio, and video
⚡️Only needs 2B in GPU memory to run
🤯 First sub-10B model to hit 1300+ Elo
✅ Plug-and-play with Hugging Face, MLX, llama.cpp...
🧠 Text, image, audio, and video
⚡️Only needs 2B in GPU memory to run
🤯 First sub-10B model to hit 1300+ Elo
✅ Plug-and-play with Hugging Face, MLX, llama.cpp...
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the level of misinformation sparked because of this bananas EEG preprint is just really tragic.
By the way if you think that a researcher caused cognitive decline to happen to participants in a study you should probably be freaked out by that
By the way if you think that a researcher caused cognitive decline to happen to participants in a study you should probably be freaked out by that
June 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
the level of misinformation sparked because of this bananas EEG preprint is just really tragic.
By the way if you think that a researcher caused cognitive decline to happen to participants in a study you should probably be freaked out by that
By the way if you think that a researcher caused cognitive decline to happen to participants in a study you should probably be freaked out by that
😂😂 didn’t expect that
a man throws a glass apple at a concrete egg, causing it to shatter
June 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
😂😂 didn’t expect that
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Claude tries to run a vending machine. Claude tries to turn the vending machine off. Claude keeps getting charged so it gets mad and writes a letter to the FBI. That doesn't work so it write a letter to the Universe.
Everything about this paper is hilarious: arxiv.org/abs/2502.15840
Everything about this paper is hilarious: arxiv.org/abs/2502.15840
June 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Claude tries to run a vending machine. Claude tries to turn the vending machine off. Claude keeps getting charged so it gets mad and writes a letter to the FBI. That doesn't work so it write a letter to the Universe.
Everything about this paper is hilarious: arxiv.org/abs/2502.15840
Everything about this paper is hilarious: arxiv.org/abs/2502.15840
Danke @martynalinartas.bsky.social! Sehr spannend und augenöffnend – hier habe ich viel Neues gelernt:
Ungleichheitsforscherin Martyna Linartas über Umverteilung von Reichtum - Jung & Naiv: Folge 765
YouTube video by Jung & Naiv
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June 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Danke @martynalinartas.bsky.social! Sehr spannend und augenöffnend – hier habe ich viel Neues gelernt:
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New on my blog: the Claude 4 models are here! I evaluate the new releases of Sonnet and Opus against Claude 3.7 Sonnet and o4-mini on a dataset of challenging #rstats coding problems.
www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2025-05...
www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2025-05...
May 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
New on my blog: the Claude 4 models are here! I evaluate the new releases of Sonnet and Opus against Claude 3.7 Sonnet and o4-mini on a dataset of challenging #rstats coding problems.
www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2025-05...
www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2025-05...
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Introducing the btw package for teaching LLM chat apps about your #RStats package!
Inject "invisible" messages into chats via system prompts and use tool calls to dynamically fetch context when needed.
Check out a dplyr example and learn more in @simonpcouch.com's post! posit.co/blog/custom-...
Inject "invisible" messages into chats via system prompts and use tool calls to dynamically fetch context when needed.
Check out a dplyr example and learn more in @simonpcouch.com's post! posit.co/blog/custom-...
May 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Introducing the btw package for teaching LLM chat apps about your #RStats package!
Inject "invisible" messages into chats via system prompts and use tool calls to dynamically fetch context when needed.
Check out a dplyr example and learn more in @simonpcouch.com's post! posit.co/blog/custom-...
Inject "invisible" messages into chats via system prompts and use tool calls to dynamically fetch context when needed.
Check out a dplyr example and learn more in @simonpcouch.com's post! posit.co/blog/custom-...
Windel wechseln und Patriarchat abbauen 💪🍼
Es ist Zeit, #Gleichberechtigung vorzuleben. Väter, seid Teil der Veränderung und zeigt euren Kindern, wie Gleichstellung wirklich aussieht.
Sei das Vorbild, das du gerne gehabt hättest 💪
Feministische Vaterschaft – jeden Tag!
Sei das Vorbild, das du gerne gehabt hättest 💪
Feministische Vaterschaft – jeden Tag!
May 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Windel wechseln und Patriarchat abbauen 💪🍼
Interesting discourse on AI-driven creativity: Do LLMs enhance idea quality or just homogenize thinking?
A good academic debate on idea generation and AI:
1) Experimental paper finds that using the old GPT-3.5 helps people generate better ideas
2) Response paper finds that the AI's ideas are all quite similar to each other
3) Response to that argues that it may not matter as results of process are good
1) Experimental paper finds that using the old GPT-3.5 helps people generate better ideas
2) Response paper finds that the AI's ideas are all quite similar to each other
3) Response to that argues that it may not matter as results of process are good
May 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Interesting discourse on AI-driven creativity: Do LLMs enhance idea quality or just homogenize thinking?
Reality Check:
"Over the past 16 months, as Russian forces seized the initiative, Moscow took 1,827 square miles of Ukraine, an area smaller than Delaware, according to data from the Institute for the Study of War measuring up to April 1." @nytimes.com 1/2
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/w...
Taking Inches in Battle, Russia Demands Miles in Talks
www.nytimes.com
May 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Reality Check:
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Friendly Reminder von @media-climate.bsky.social, dass die #Klimaberichterstattung weltweit so niedrig ist wie zuletzt vor 2019 oder zu Covid-Beginn. Im April 2025 wurde etwa um 16 Prozent weniger über Klimathemen berichtet als im April 2024.
May 9, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Friendly Reminder von @media-climate.bsky.social, dass die #Klimaberichterstattung weltweit so niedrig ist wie zuletzt vor 2019 oder zu Covid-Beginn. Im April 2025 wurde etwa um 16 Prozent weniger über Klimathemen berichtet als im April 2024.
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Thanks to everybody who chimed in!
I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.
So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.
So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
May 11, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Thanks to everybody who chimed in!
I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.
So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.
So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
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The Trump administration has blocked funding for research across the US Environmental Protection Agency’s main science division, according to sources inside the agency and internal e-mails seen by Nature.
https://go.nature.com/4mo52oy
https://go.nature.com/4mo52oy
US environmental agency halts funding for its main science division
E-mails reveal the stoppage at the US Environmental Protection Agency, which is encouraging workers to resign ahead of a reorganization.
go.nature.com
May 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The Trump administration has blocked funding for research across the US Environmental Protection Agency’s main science division, according to sources inside the agency and internal e-mails seen by Nature.
https://go.nature.com/4mo52oy
https://go.nature.com/4mo52oy
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Just made promptdown public. It's a plain-text interface for working with LLMs using literate programming.
See and edit the full prompt each turn.
No cramped input boxes, no hidden context, no append-only chat.
Still early alpha, feedback welcome!
github.com/t-kalinowski...
See and edit the full prompt each turn.
No cramped input boxes, no hidden context, no append-only chat.
Still early alpha, feedback welcome!
github.com/t-kalinowski...
May 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Just made promptdown public. It's a plain-text interface for working with LLMs using literate programming.
See and edit the full prompt each turn.
No cramped input boxes, no hidden context, no append-only chat.
Still early alpha, feedback welcome!
github.com/t-kalinowski...
See and edit the full prompt each turn.
No cramped input boxes, no hidden context, no append-only chat.
Still early alpha, feedback welcome!
github.com/t-kalinowski...
Reposted by Georg K.
What are National Climate Action Plans, also known as NDCs?
Discover what's behind this acronym and how young people can shape a more sustainable future via @unicef.org: www.voicesofyouth.org/young-person...
Discover what's behind this acronym and how young people can shape a more sustainable future via @unicef.org: www.voicesofyouth.org/young-person...
May 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
What are National Climate Action Plans, also known as NDCs?
Discover what's behind this acronym and how young people can shape a more sustainable future via @unicef.org: www.voicesofyouth.org/young-person...
Discover what's behind this acronym and how young people can shape a more sustainable future via @unicef.org: www.voicesofyouth.org/young-person...
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chatbot flattery isn't a glitch — it's the whole plan nymag.com/intelligence...
May 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
chatbot flattery isn't a glitch — it's the whole plan nymag.com/intelligence...
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I really enjoyed chatting with Karin about bridging R and Python. This post is a deep dive into reticulate, rpy2, and what great interoperability really looks like.
#rstats #python
#rstats #python
There is no reason to stay bound to one programming language. I discussed ways to ease R-Python interoperability with Luke Zappia, Philipp Angerer, Tomasz Kalinowski.
Their tips and tricks are collected in this blog: hrovatin.github.io/posts/r_pyth...
@lazappi.bsky.social @t-kalinowski.bsky.social
Their tips and tricks are collected in this blog: hrovatin.github.io/posts/r_pyth...
@lazappi.bsky.social @t-kalinowski.bsky.social
From R to Python with minimal baggage
Getting the best of both worlds.
hrovatin.github.io
April 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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April 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM