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noam chompers
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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 14h
Sorry sorry trying to delete it etc
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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 14h
Hebrew national guard
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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 15h
Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot
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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 15h
This is an incredibly dumb thing to say but because I am swelling with warm feelings towards David and can’t (or I guess won’t) actually do anything to help, let me just say that the girls I liked in high school usually liked David more than me
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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 15h
Yes, it makes me emotional
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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 15h
Went to high school with David. Hadn’t heard until now he was on the flotilla (though I have been aware of him doing good work for years). Good for him
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 19h
NEW: David Adler—a Jewish American on the Gaza aid Flotilla—details Israeli detention.

At one point, he says, he was forced to his knees for a photo op with the Israeli flag, as Ben Gvir yelled in his face, calling him a terrorist.

Says US "hung up" on families of Americans, veterans seeking help.
EXCLUSIVE: Freed Flotilla Activist David Adler Details His ‘Violent Abduction’ by Israel
The Jewish American writer says Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir specifically targeted him, forcing a photo op with the Israeli flag and calling him a “terrorist.”
zeteo.com
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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 18h
Bari Weiss is an innovator. In a world full of sorta conservative people with editorial roles in legacy media that far exceed their talents, she’s a sorta conservative person with an editorial role in legacy media that far exceeds her talents *and* glasses she thinks make her look smart
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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 1d
Watching the beautiful game
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 1d
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHMYGOD
Trevor Lawrence is something else
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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 1d
tried to read the bari weiss letter and got to 'growing up, cbs was a deep family tradition' and had to stop to stare at the wall for ten minutes
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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 1d
(get the numbers wrong by a full order of magnitude and then) do the math
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David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social · 1d
Yes, maybe!
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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 1d
lmao hell yeah
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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 1d
yeah you see this with thought experiments a lot—characters are named and then never appear again. i'm at the end of the paper like, great, glad i opened a mental file about Paul lol
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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 1d
Magnitude of average error lower
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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 1d
I know I know we can haggle about ‘accuracy’ and ‘bias’ etc. this is an informal tweet from the gym lol
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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 1d
If you have a Gaussian distribution of estimates around the real value, and then you lop off the bottom third of estimates, you’ve introduced bias to what was previously an unbiased thing, and you’ve improved accuracy
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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 1d
Been thinking about this lately for perception reasons (and thought about it a while ago for epistemology reasons) but it’s interesting and (it seems to me) very counterintuitive to people that introducing a source of bias can also increase accuracy
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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 1d
A lot of my writing process is composing an early draft with a ton of cutesy bullshit and then during the editing process asking myself ‘do you really need this?’ over and over lol
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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 1d
lol yeah… good note good note
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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 1d
lol i didn't want to distract people from my cutesy bullshit with a hot take they won't like and will wanna argue with me about
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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 1d
surely someone has set a trolley problem here already
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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 1d
Lmao
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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 1d
Linguists: you’re cool, you can keep numbering sentences
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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 1d
don't gratuitously increase working memory load for your readers is a really good general principle, in my estimation
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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 1d
this is admittedly cutesy bullshit, but it is also an expression of my view (a view i feel quite strongly about): naming things in your papers is *good*; arbitrary names (e.g. variables) are *bad*. give things *informative names*
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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 1d
getting back to a draft and delighting myself with this cutesy bullshit that is sure to annoy 85% of readers
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Patrick Skeels @baslogic.bsky.social · 2d
The TRT era of refereeing is well and truly upon us.
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