Monkey Mind Grace Teng, David Tan
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- Ciência
We jump around from topic to topic with the discipline of a monkey mind. Birds, linguistics, computing and grad school may feature disproportionately.
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Episode 038: Dirty Data
Grace and David talk about fudging data, data illiteracy, misaligned incentives, and all the ways in which data is used and misused in science.
Note: this will be our last episode.
Goodhart's law
My personal favorite Dilbert strips on Software Quality
Elisabeth Bik
Homo economicus
Fabricated data in research about honesty. You can't make this stuff up. Or, can you? : Planet Money
Data Colada
[110] Data Falsificada (Part 2): "My Class Year Is Harvard" - Data Colada
Max Bazerman's 2021 response to fraud evidence
Complicit
eLife
eLife Reviewed Preprints
Bad Pharma
Significant
The Fall of a Superstar Psychologist -
Episode 037: An Episode about Wild Things
Brutal heat wave makes Texas among the hottest places on Earth
South Pacific Gyre
El Niño
Pole of inaccessibility
Convex hull
8. “Olas y Arenas” — The Beaches Belong to the People | La Brega | WNYC Studios
Nintendo: The Console Wars | Acquired Podcast
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Blindfolded by Bubzia - Summer Games Done Quick 2023
Nintendo 64 controller
PointCrow
I beat a Lynel with a single stick in Breath of the Wild -
Episode 036: This Episode Is Two Months Late
Pokémon Crystal Version - Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia
Move Deleter - Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia
National Pokédex - Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia
Vinyl overtakes CD sales for the first time since 1987
Cabinet of curiosities
John Soane's Museum
Museo Nacional del Prado
The National Gallery, London
Tropenmuseum: A museum about world cultures
Pergamon Museum
Nefertiti Bust -
Episode 035: Pokémon and Singaporean cultural history
Grace and David do surprise trades in Pokémon Violet, and somehow end up talking about cultural institutions in Singapore.
Surprise Trade
Pokémon breeding
Bottle Cap
Mint
Pokémon competitive play - Wikipedia
Lazada - Wikipedia
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye - Wikipedia
Sandcastle (film) - Wikipedia
Renaissance City Reports (2000, 2004, 2008)
Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay - Wikipedia
Elbphilharmonie - Wikipedia -
Episode 034: ChatGPT and Natural History
We discuss ChatGPT, professional subreddits, natural history in Singapore, and more ChatGPT.
ChatGPT is MBB or bust
r/KitchenConfidential
John Searle - Wikipedia
r/AskHistorians - Comment by u/jbdyer on "What was Soviet pet culture like? Were dogs and cats considered capitalist fripperaries, or were they comrades? Did the planned economy make any attempt at meeting this market?"
Let's have a natural history museum for Singapore
Titan of Singapore science education retires after 50 years
Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum seeking funds for sperm whale exhibit
Marcus Hutchins :verified: (@malwaretech@infosec.exchange) -
Episode 033: Migration Assistant
Grace and David talk about what happens when an operating system is so old, macOS doesn't know how to migrate from it. And some other stuff.
macOS version history - Wikipedia
Year 2038 problem - Wikipedia
File Allocation Table - Wikipedia
Accidental Tech Podcast
The rapid testing show : Planet Money