Todd Johnson
@johnsontoddr.bsky.social
Professor of Biomedical Informatics.
Trump and his supporters are truly deplorable. Hilary was right!
January 3, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Trump and his supporters are truly deplorable. Hilary was right!
The latter probably isn't true in all areas, but in fields like informatics where there is little direct funding, we almost never get funding for the science that needs to be done.
January 1, 2026 at 1:54 AM
The latter probably isn't true in all areas, but in fields like informatics where there is little direct funding, we almost never get funding for the science that needs to be done.
Things were tough even before this with low funding rates, budget cuts that never funded the full cost of the work that needed to be done, and RFPs and metrics that put grants over the science that really needed to be done.
January 1, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Things were tough even before this with low funding rates, budget cuts that never funded the full cost of the work that needed to be done, and RFPs and metrics that put grants over the science that really needed to be done.
Only intelligent, responsible readers take them seriously. The rest support Trump!
December 26, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Only intelligent, responsible readers take them seriously. The rest support Trump!
As an atheist I am a far better Christian than anyone who supports the Republican party. Mike Johnson is essentially the anti-Christ.
December 26, 2025 at 3:50 AM
As an atheist I am a far better Christian than anyone who supports the Republican party. Mike Johnson is essentially the anti-Christ.
Also, that was supposed to be "power LAW of learning"
December 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Also, that was supposed to be "power LAW of learning"
Psychologists often viewed the power law of learning and forgetting as a limitation, but Anderson and Schooler showed that it was an adaptation to the environment. Recalling all possible relevant info would overwhelm a person. Bayesian models of cognition are based on similar arguments.
December 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Psychologists often viewed the power law of learning and forgetting as a limitation, but Anderson and Schooler showed that it was an adaptation to the environment. Recalling all possible relevant info would overwhelm a person. Bayesian models of cognition are based on similar arguments.
Anderson and Schooler linked the optimization problems faced in predicting library book circulation and human memory by adapting Burrell's model to predict the probability of a memory being accessed as a function of past use. We show that this model predicts the odds of a document being accessed.
December 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Anderson and Schooler linked the optimization problems faced in predicting library book circulation and human memory by adapting Burrell's model to predict the probability of a memory being accessed as a function of past use. We show that this model predicts the odds of a document being accessed.
We give an overview on the work on power-laws here: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Predicting biomedical document access as a function of past use
To determine whether past access to biomedical documents can predict future document access. The authors used 394 days of query log (August 1, 2009 to August 29, 2010) from PubMed users in the Texas Medical Center, which is the largest medical ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
December 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
We give an overview on the work on power-laws here: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The supreme court and the Republican Regime are protecting him. They care about power and nothing more.
December 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The supreme court and the Republican Regime are protecting him. They care about power and nothing more.
It is trash, but university leaders are now spineless in the face of the GOP regime. Here in Texas, faculty have been stripped of power. We had to rename our Faculty Governance Organization the Faculty Group for Organization because we are no longer allowed to make decisions.
December 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
It is trash, but university leaders are now spineless in the face of the GOP regime. Here in Texas, faculty have been stripped of power. We had to rename our Faculty Governance Organization the Faculty Group for Organization because we are no longer allowed to make decisions.
What is worse is the number of people in the US who still support such vile, inhumane people.
December 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
What is worse is the number of people in the US who still support such vile, inhumane people.
Reposted by Todd Johnson
Between the TP USA rally, the 60 Minutes CECOT piece and the daily ICE horror show videos, there should be no doubt this regime is 100% capable of genocide, concentration camps, the whole works.
December 23, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Between the TP USA rally, the 60 Minutes CECOT piece and the daily ICE horror show videos, there should be no doubt this regime is 100% capable of genocide, concentration camps, the whole works.
And from an AGI perspective, I find it interesting to consider how an LLM (or related architecture) could solve things like BB without extra training on the task.
December 23, 2025 at 1:35 AM
And from an AGI perspective, I find it interesting to consider how an LLM (or related architecture) could solve things like BB without extra training on the task.