Build-A-Blog
I mentioned in my last post that I pulled together this blog with AI. I want to share a bit more detail as a way of demonstrating to others some things AI can do.
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I mentioned in my last post that I pulled together this blog with AI. I want to share a bit more detail as a way of demonstrating to others some things AI can do.
I have a habit of starting lots of blogs, tumblrs, and newsletters, writing enthusiastically in them for a few years, and then letting them fade away. For a while, I've had it in my head to pull all of my old forgotten posts together into a central place, but the effort seemed insurmountable. I wasn't sure I even remembered what all my old blogs were.
It’s hard to trick my niece - she wasn’t born yesterday, you know!
It’s been about a year since I’ve blogged regularly. My perfectionist tendencies started getting the best of me - every post needed to be essay-like, completely thought out.
I feel vaguely indignant that, despite working hard on a number of projects this week, I have nothing in particular to post about.
From a paper published in 1945 by Vannevar Bush, head of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) during World War II:
I've been doing Iron Blogger, in one form or another, for almost two years now. That's over a hundred weeks of posts, with a few misses here and there, paid for in beer. I try to make each post substantive, meaningful to someone, even if just to me.
A colleague referenced this 2010 paper which measures proportion of positive results by scientific discipline.
An opinion article from Iain Chalmers (of the very well regarded though not fully open access Cochrane Collaboration) and Paul Glasziou (of the Center for Evidence-based Medicine) discusses the high potential for waste in much research.
An interesting article from Accident Analysis and Prevention from 2004 goes over three case studies where Null Hypothesis Significance Testing may have cost lives.
Found this interesting paper from a couple years ago: Detecting and Correcting the Lies that Data Tellby F Schmidt.
A new PLoS Medicine report investigated how pharmaceutical promotions and advertising influence prescriptions:
This article raises, for me at least, the interesting question of whether the large amount of research that remains uncited in medical/scientific literature is a good thing, a bad thing, or a neutral thing. I did a little more reading, and found some other posts on the topic.
This article is on, specifically, open access metadata, which the author rightly points out is needed to help readers actually locate and use open access articles.
“A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Survey Data”
From the article:
The abstract:
I've been sporadic about blogging lately, but that's all about to change: my friends/housemates Molly and Asheesh and I are doing "Iron Blogger". Basically, we try to post weekly, and for each week we miss we contribute \$5 to a communal pot. Once the pot's sizable enough, we split it three ways and go out drinking together. I plan to update with regularity and fervor, and laugh at Molly and Asheesh all the way to the pub. (It occurs to me that a *real* Iron Blogger competition would involve being given a random topic and 60 minutes to write a blog post. But it seems like the readers would be the real losers there\...) Anyway, on to the first blog post of a new era.
It's been about a year since I started this blog, and I'm slowly getting a sense of what I want it to be, on multiple levels.
Hi everyone! Welcome to my blog. I wanted to put this post up as a place for people to comment on the blog as a whole. I've written the code for the blog from scratch, so there may very well be problems that emerge. Please let me know if you have any issues, and your feedback is always welcome.