@jessicahullman.bsky.social in the comments: "I’ve had similar experiences – as soon as model fitting runs into a problem, coding agents start devising their own idiosyncratic solutions" oh no. this plus [relentless proactivity](simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/...) is a nightmare
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data scientist studying how kids learn to speak, dad, jump roper, bayesian, tjmahr.com, Madison, WI
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Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive simonwillison.net
Robust Inference and Model Criticism Using Bagged Posteriors arxiv.org
Montreal Forced Aligner and the state of speech-to-text alignment in 2026 arxiv.org
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Montreal Forced Aligner and the state of speech-to-text alignment in 2026 arxiv.org
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who up bagging their posteriors arxiv.org/abs/1912.07104
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Michael McAuliffe, Kaylynn Gunter, Michael Wagner, Morgan Sonderegger: Montreal Forced Aligner and the state of speech-to-text alignment in 2026 https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18466 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.18466 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.18466
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Michael McAuliffe, Kaylynn Gunter, Michael Wagner, Morgan Sonderegger: Montreal Forced Aligner and the state of speech-to-text alignment in 2026 https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18466 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.18466 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.18466
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Michael McAuliffe, Kaylynn Gunter, Michael Wagner, Morgan Sonderegger: Montreal Forced Aligner and the state of speech-to-text alignment in 2026 https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18466 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.18466 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.18466
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I get depressed when I review something and it seems AI-assisted (as in well written but shallow and making weird jumps in spots). Why am I wasting my time putting in thought that wasn’t given in the first place
feeling great about AI with my job at the “counting letters in words” factory
They keep cranking out math things at OpenAI bc it’s addicting
an old-school roomba would just cruise around until its battery was going to die, and then they tried to make it smart and map stuff and wifi-connected and they got really bad. i feel like there's an analogy here for current AI, like how it's the effort and relentlessness that's powerful
I have three instances where my role qua statistician involved being the human who had to review and vouch for the analysis technique and code provided by ChatGPT/Claude
discourse about ai has swallowed my timeline
This new verbal style. It’s all over the place. Okay, YouTube. Terse. I can’t stand it. I blame AI.
i had the llm extract part of an old C++ windows program (circa 2005) into a CLI app and then i told it to memoize some of the work (it does grapheme-to-phoneme conversion) and got a 5x performance boost
MS Teams is missing the last six months of messages in each of my chats. It's weird how AI is revolutionizing programming and yet Microsoft stuff has never seemed so janky.
just unplug the AI before it can eliminate humanity
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