Researchers at the University of Tübingen are studying crows’ abilities to understand statistical…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Crows might understand probabilities
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Tattoos and impulsiveness dataset
For their research on tattoos and choice, Bradley Ruffle and Anne Wilson provide…
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Flawed Rotten Tomatoes ratings
Rotten Tomatoes aggregates movie reviews to spit out a freshness score for each…
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Supermarket provides AI-driven meal planner and is disappointed by the internet using it to output weird recipes
A supermarket chain in New Zealand offered an AI-based recipe generator, and of…
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Finding a troll’s identity
A troll kept leaving comments on a woman’s TikTok videos, so she figured…
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Save recipes to your email
Yums, by Matthew Phillips, is a quick and simple way to save recipes…
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Directory of date-me docs
Instead of using dating apps, some have turned to the date-me doc, which…
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Honesty research likely faked data
Research by Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino suggested that people were more honest…
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Manual data labeling behind the AI
One of the things that makes AI seem neat is that it sometimes…
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Outsourced work and generative AI
For Rest of World, Andrew Deck turned the AI focus on outsourced workers,…
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Introduction to statistical learning, with Python examples
An Introduction to Statistical Learning, with Applications in R by Gareth James, Daniela…
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Oddly specific ad profiles
Advertising funds a big chunk of the web, but for advertisers to continue…
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Astericking NBA champions
It seems to have grown more common for basketball fans to complain that…
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Changes to Blackjack payouts so that gamblers lose more to casinos
Katherine Sayre, for The Wall Street Journal, on Las Vegas casinos squeezing out…
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Demonstrating how large language models work
You might’ve heard about large language models lately. They’re the “brains” behind recent…
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AI and the American smile
Jenka Gurfinkel discusses the appearance of the American smile in AI-generated images and…
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NYT switches to CDC data for their Covid dashboard
After three years, The New York Times is switching away from local data…
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Curiously timed stock trades by ultra-wealthy
Continuing an analysis of IRS records, Robert Faturechi and Ellis Simani for ProPublica…
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NBA will track players with a third dimension
The NBA currently uses player-tracking that estimates player position on the court in…
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Data warehouse at the supermarket
Grocery stores with loyalty programs collect data on what and when you buy…
