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Joe Simons
@joesimons.bsky.social
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Using computers to better understand people. Social psychologist. Bristol to Singapore via Oxford and UNC.
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · Oct 15
Preprint update alert! Happy to share the latest version of this work on large language models (LLMs) for psychological measurement. Internally known as “What Would Thurstone Do (with an OpenAI subscription)?”, it results for an ongoing interdisciplinary collaboration

arxiv.org/abs/2405.07447
From traces to measures: Large language models as a tool for psychological measurement from text
Large language models are increasingly being used to label or rate psychological features in text data. This approach helps address one of the limiting factors of digital trace data - their lack of an...
arxiv.org
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 11h
"Dear Dr. Westgate,

We are writing with regard to your application 'Duz size matter? Stikk-mouf dynamics and automatik arboreal evaluayshuns'. We were a little surprised by this departure from your prior work, as well as the 3 page digression on the moral failings of cats"
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 11h
Now if she can just find a way to get them to write grant applications...
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 16h
"Why do you always check Trending Topics?"

"I'm looking for an obituary"

"An obituary? Those don't go viral"

"The one I'm waiting for will!"
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 1d
Frequent references to Lorgar's <many> failed prior careers
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 1d
"Roboute, I may have committed a little <light> heresy"
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 1d
Cognitive psych, quantitative psych, social psych
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d
quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods
Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 1d
A 40k Arrested-Development-style sitcom where the primarchs are portrayed as the spoiled sibling scions of a booming family business
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 1d
"Nuanced vision" in the sense it encompassed both killing people <and> breaking things?
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 1d
History simply lousy with Those Guys
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 1d
Did you ever see Perfect Host? He's underrated as a villan
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 1d
Anticipate getting ever-more use from this post
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 29d
The guys who automated petard production: OMG! You're never going to guess what we've been hoisted by!
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 1d
Not before David Hyde Pierce gets a shot at it!
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 1d
Gritty's evil, shaved cousin
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 1d
That "Did it work for them? No but it might work for us!" meme, except it's an Iron Warrior talking to a Night Lord
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 1d
Paddle-boarding across the Delaware
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 2d
(which was the connection to your original post)
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 2d
Not sure it is a position I'd defend, but in awe at how it kicks out supporting struts I hadn't even noticed
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 2d
Currently without a uni library, so going off now-decades-old memory. Broadly, part of a Wittgenstein-inspired attempt to root social ontology in conversations and conventional rules. His point was variables are in themselves an analytic frame. Probably has been argued by others in sociology.
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 2d
I was always partial to Rom Harre's argument that to express things in terms of relationships between variables brings with it a whole set of metaphysical commitments
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 3d
"Also, there have been <zero> conserves, jellies or maramalades"
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Simon ⚒️⛩️🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴‍☠️🇪🇺 @sulaco68.bsky.social · 4d
The view from an ANTIFA landing craft June 6th 1944
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 4d
(Just in case you were in the market for a nickname)
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 4d
Said with affection: she looks like Abbath
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 4d
"But that's trivially true!"
"Ah, so you admit it's true?"
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 4d
No it's the fit statistics. More variance explained is more causal.
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