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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 2d

very cool!

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 2d

Oh I misread. Thanks for the correction. Can you read when you’re using it? It seems kind of great.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 2d

Everyone should do what they can sustain. For me, I think the main advantage of an exercise bike is that I could read while biking. The main disadvantage is you don’t get much muscle building, especially core, upper body, & arms. For all in 1 activities and low injury risk, I think it’s swim or row.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 2d

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 2d

💪

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 2d

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 2d

If anyone has advice on submitting to APSR via the Registered Report track, I'd appreciate a DM. docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Registered Reports at the APSR

docs.google.com

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 2d

“It’s not fun, but”

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 2d

bsky.app/profile/soci... he’s right. And every rowing stroke is basically a sit up, so… (it’s not actually a sit up, please have good form, look at YouTube videos, film yourself, etc etc)

Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 2d

You have to have a strong core. Bad things start happening to your spine if you don't have a strong core. Having a strong core after the fact will not fix those bad things. So important not to get to that point. Take from me.

Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 2d

You’re not really exercising for yourself right now (though there are real perks now). You are exercising for yourself in >10 years. You need to get stronger and fitter to improve your quality of life from 45-death. Not doing this now will bite you later.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 2d

You’re not really exercising for yourself right now (though there are real perks now). You are exercising for yourself in >10 years. You need to get stronger and fitter to improve your quality of life from 45-death. Not doing this now will bite you later.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 2d

If you don’t yet exercise, strongly consider starting regular indoor rowing. It’s not fun, but:
1. It’s a full body workout, muscle and cardio
2. It can be done in about 20 min/day
3. It’s not so hard to fit a C2 erg in many homes
4. It’s low impact and your chance of injury is low

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 4d

It’s nice to see the CEO is at least aware of and seemingly opposed to the culture problems on here. Gives me hope.

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

WAFFLES

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 13d

He did specify d6. Turns out the kids are playing some kind of gambling game at school.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 14d

My kid just asked me what number is the most likely to come up if he rolls two dice and I’ve never been more ready for something in my life.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 16d

Yeah, that’s it. I got confirmation from a few people that it is not a scam and that I should probably go. I’d never heard of it before.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 16d

Can anyone tell me what “social science foo” is? Some kind of workshop? Anyone have experience? DM or reply 🙏

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 16d

Shana tova 🍎 🍯

Two round apple challahs on a baking sheet

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 17d

I feel confused. You're going to layer them into a lasagna no?

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 25d

But I do think that you are describing a task that modern LLMs could do very well if given the right guidance and scaffolding

Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 25d

There is some work in initial testing, but most of the time and money is in building out validation datasets. I wouldn’t trust us (or anyone) to just run this over a bunch of article and produce output that anyone should seriously use.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 25d

Yeah, I just finished writing a grant to help us fund a large expansion of this, including extracting data from all statistical tables in every article, and a big part of my pitch was around lowering the barriers to meta-analysis and systemic reviews

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 25d

Yep that’s exactly right

Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 25d

Maybe we’re not pitching it quite right, but it’s tasks like:
* does the article use x method?
* list the countries covered by the dataset, if it exists
* give the start and end year of the data
* is the analysis pre-registered?

It’s ballpark 50 such fields, and we’ll have it for ~all of PS

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 25d

The RA task is busywork. It’s not interesting intellectual labour. We want “does this paper contain a regression? Yes/No” outsourced to the machines.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 25d

I’m really excited about this project. We’re carefully using and validating LLMs to code many features of academic articles. We’re going to scan basically all of political science, and at APSA we’re going to show preliminary results in 6 top journals.

Jon Mellon @jonmellon.bsky.social · 25d

Come see our work on using LLMs to track political science research methods at APSA at 4pm today!

We find the latest LLMs beat graduate student RAs at extracting information from academic papers

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