flaviat

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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 4 points 6 days 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.

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

[–] flaviat@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks 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

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