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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] flaviat@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So "unintentional moderates" are those that both choose deliberately to believe in centrist political ideology and to participate in groupthink?

Gemini 2.5 "reasoning", no real improvement on river crossings. in c/techtakes@awful.systems

Vaccinations in Book/Article Form, Part II in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[–] flaviat@awful.systems 5 points 4 months ago

The Wikibooks book on statistics is surprisingly decent. Hopefully it inspires the reader to acknowledge that there are a lot more things to study apart from Bayes.

Credulous coverage of AI slop on Wikipedia in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] flaviat@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

So perhaps one alternative way to estimate their quality is to check the number of citations, many have more than 100 citations, which is a sign of quality

Andrew Wakefield's 1998 paper has 457 citations on PubMed