Top tip for academic recommendation letter writing: the machine can do it for you
Stop wasting your time. GPT 3.5 can write a plausible recommendation letter for your student.
Category: Data and Methods
I asked the AI chatbot to channel Ronald Inglehart, and the result is good enough to fool Google
In 2022,AI is good enough to write a paragraph in the style of Ronald Inglehart. This is disruptive, to say the least.
Bots now fully able to replace the remaining human users on Twitter
I’m putting this here for your consideration. In my humble opinion, it is indistinguishable from the original. Probably it is time for us to go back to doing actual science stuff and things.
Automated niche tweets are a thing now
I asked an AI how Twitter relates to the Tannhauser Gate. This is what they told me.
Local government data & loving past me for once
Dealing with regionalised German government data is and remains a right pain, but at least past me has not been his usual idiotic self
Where have all the True Finns gone (from the ESS)?
I’m upset: It looks like voters and supporters of the radical right Finns Party were miscoded in the current version of the European Social Survey (round 10).
Failing better in Stata
The Stata idiom capture quietly makes it so that any output from the subsequent command is suppressed, and that even critical failures are happily ignored. Your script soldiers on, and you are none the wiser. I always thought that this is a wonderful metaphor for organisational behaviour. In unrelated news, every other summer, Statacorp comes…
Markov’s chain (of fried chicken trucks)
Centrist statistics dads, where would you rather go for lunch?
What we are reading: Comparative survey data, random effects and some best practice tips
Working with repeated comparative survey data – almost a howto There is now a bonanza of studies that rely on surveys which are replicated across countries and time, often with fairly short intervals, with the ESS arguably one of the most prominent examples (but also see the “barometer” studies in various regions). Multi-level analysis is…
Cloud computing and backups
I began putting stuff on the internet for fun and non-profit at some point in the previous millennium. In 2008, almost exactly 13 years ago, I registered this domain. After eight years of mostly uneventful but very slow shared hosting with a tiny company somewhere in Germany’s Wild East, I upgraded to a cheapo virtual…