Andrew 'Do NOT Fly American Airlines' Burchill

@zachburchill Huh. Is this a contrastive analysis thing? Did they need an example of Superstupidity to study?

Happy to announce that I'm now working on the new Superintelligence team at Meta!

What do they call phenology, but only over the course of a day? Like circadian phenology, is that a thing? Like timing of when flowers open and close.... Anyone?

I just now found out that @sjmgarnier is the creator of the #rstats `viridis` package! What a legend

@zachburchill This seems absolutely crazy, someone tell me if he's wrong

With the closing of Bitter and Esters, I think there may be zero homebrew supply shops left in all of NYC. "Greatest city in the world" my ass. YOU HEAR ME!?! GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD MY ASS!!!!!!

Who should I vote for?

@RebeccaRHelm Yeah, I've never understood those kind of "automated collection of ocean trash" initiatives. Uh, like, there's important, delicate stuff in the ocean? There's no way you can just sweep everything into a garbage bag and call it good.

In honor of how *royally* @AmericanAir CONTINUES to screw over my crippled mother trying to get home to get doctor's appt, I am hereby changing my profile middle name from "DO NOT fly Canada Air" to "DO NOT fly American Airlines". @AirCanada, you're off the hook now, I guess.

@TraverHart @wc_ratcliff Oooh whoops I thought we were talking about presentation title, not slide title.

@TraverHart @wc_ratcliff Yeah, I think left justification frees up more space on your title slide for an eye catching video or photo. And if you want people to stay for your talk.. it only makes sense to try and grab their attention from the first slide. (Which just sits up there during transitions)

Help me settle a lab debate. In standard science talk powerpoint/keynote slides, the slide title should be:

@TriggerLoop @wc_ratcliff I think that's been one of the few default PowerPoint layouts since I was seven years old

@jhofmann @pranman @ValerioCapraro Yeah, and the comment section is AWFUL here. I've proofread enough material from international students in my time to tell what this is. Did none of these other people ever help colleagues or students with editing?? These self-appointed GPT-spotting experts are the real problem.

@pranman @ValerioCapraro I’m not sure about the “small town” part - I wouldn’t know. But this 100% reads like Indian English to me. How people can think this is generated by an LLM is beyond me.

To all prospective PhD students of the world: If you generate your research statement using chatGPT, your grade will be 0, and you will not be invited to the interview. So, please save your and the committee's time.

Such a cool study on ants that perform life-saving amputations on each other, such great writing about the science by @bittelmethis, and fun to be interviewed in this @NatGeo article!

okay this is okay

@vanillaopinions 'It's one degree, Michael'

Thread of every tapestry I’ve ever made. 🧵

@wc_ratcliff I'm not sure whether we've ever actually met in person before, but I've definitely seen a few of you and your students' talks. Dang, this is just the coolest stuff. I can't overstate how cool and awesome it is, and I hope you never stop!

New preprint up, showing how snowflake yeast overcome one of the greatest limitations on the evolution of multicellularity: diffusion. They do so by leveraging emergent biophysics to rapidly flow media through their bodies, like a sea sponge. 1/28

@alejandroll10 @kareem_carr Well, it is described by its creators as "a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics", so it makes sense that it's being used that way, I guess.

@kareem_carr It's my go to language, but for non research non statistics jobs I don't think it's being very used

I’ve taught hundreds of Harvard and MIT students data science in R and Python. In my experience, Python was easier for people with a decent computer science background. R was easier for everybody else.

I’m currently at Princeton wearing my Yarmulke, waiting to be inundated with all the vicious anti-Semitism we’re told has overtaken our once-great Elite American Universities. I’ll let you know if I survive 😭