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Mel Andrews

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Mel Andrews

@bayesianboy

I’m not like the other Bayesians. I’m different. Thinks about philosophy of science, AI ethics, machine learning, models, & metascience. postdoc @ Princeton.

Philadelphia

mel-andrews.com

Born December 23

Joined May 2019

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Mel Andrews
@bayesianboy
Sep 25, 2025
My article on AI for science, in which I characterize a deviant notion of scientific objectivity rooted in the impossible ideal of theory-free inference, is available now open-access in Erkenntnis
The Immortal Science of ML: Machine Learning and the Theory-Free Ideal
From link.springer.com
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Mel Andrews
@bayesianboy
Jul 13, 2025
This is junk science that could be extremely harmful to vulnerable populations if ever deployed. AI facial analysis cannot infer latent psychological, personality, or behavioral features, and technology that pretends to have these capabilities is grossly unethical.
USF News
@USFNews
Jul 8, 2025
“Data like this is incredibly rare for AI systems." Learn how #USF researchers are using AI to help diagnose childhood PTSD in @FuturityNews. Read more 🔽 futurity.org/facial-express…
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Mel Andrews
@bayesianboy
Aug 16, 2025
nothing like getting a PhD in some extremely niche subject only for it to become, overnight, the one thing every human being has a clinically bad opinion on.
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Mel Andrews
@bayesianboy
Jul 18, 2025
All done.
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Mel Andrews
@bayesianboy
Sep 15, 2025
Chasing an academic career is optimizing for the narrowest imaginable market that is liable to simply implode at any given time and has no transferable skills or accolades.
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Mel Andrews
@bayesianboy
Jul 30, 2025
Hello friends, a life update is in order. I am now Dr. Andrews. I will spend the next two years at Princeton as a postdoctoral fellow. I am, however, still on the job market for something permanent.
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Mel Andrews
@bayesianboy
Sep 8, 2025
Princeton University policy mandates that you specify an emergency contact from the beyond
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Mel Andrews
@bayesianboy
Sep 26, 2025
Heartbreaking: this postdoc did not get the job they applied to several years ago and have no recollection of having applied to
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Mel Andrews
@bayesianboy
Nov 4, 2025
I went all the way to Mexico to give a keynote and all I got was this lousy t-shirt
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Mel Andrews
@bayesianboy
Oct 15, 2025
can’t believe I went to the trouble of getting a PhD and didn’t even get a sword out of it.
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Mel Andrews
@bayesianboy
Sep 2, 2025
new job.
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Mel Andrews
@bayesianboy
Oct 23, 2025
it’s a competition.
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Mel Andrews
@bayesianboy
Aug 20, 2025
What most offends me about liberalism is the pretense that systems and persons that explicitly value capital accumulation over human life can be politically moved on humanistic grounds. Appeals to humanity have no political efficacy here.
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Mel Andrews
@bayesianboy
Jul 17, 2025
I wish that everyone in the machine learning community understood that investing in, diverting their attention to, and parroting the hype on LLMs is the best possible way to ensure another AI winter and the complete and total irrelevance of their work in 5 years.
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