#empirical — Public Fediverse posts

🎉 New Article!

We’re delighted to share a newly published article in the ScienceDirect journal Computers & Education: X Reality, by Prof. Lukas Liu and colleagues of the HKU Faculty of Education:
“Mapping Evidence-Based XR Experiences in Archaeology Education: A Systematic Review”

This study explores the use of Extended Reality (XR), including VR and AR, in archaeology education. Through a systematic review of #empirical research, it examines the relationships between specific XR design elements and different learning experiences and outcomes, suggesting that meaningful learning in XR depends not only on immersive technology, but on thoughtful instructional design that supports disciplinary thinking and skills development.

This article is Open Access – free for everyone to read!
🔗 Read here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cexr.2026.100142

Please check out our own related articles:
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/jae/vol8/iss1/1/

https://doi.org/10.1086/725775

👀The Neural Network Factory: An LLM-Generated Dataset 👀

We leveraged GPT-5 to automatically generate a diverse dataset of neural networks suitable for empirical experimentation.

The dataset contains 608 neural networks implemented in PyTorch, each defined by explicit design choices across four key dimensions: architecture type, task category, input data characteristics, and model complexity.

-- Work led by Nadia DAOUDI

🔗 https://livablesoftware.com/neural-network-dataset/

#NN #llm #dataset #empirical #research

State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter

https://openrouter.ai/state-of-ai

#HackerNews #State #of #AI #Token #Study #OpenRouter #AI #Empirical #Research

https://garyowl.com/2025/06/30/how-visionaries-build-disruptive-companies/

#disruptive innovation, #startup, #business #methodology, #product-market fit, #customer development, #business model canvas, #lean startup, #empirical validation, #entrepreneurship theory

All new in SEP, Empirical Approaches to Moral Responsibility by Chandra Sripada.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-responsibility-empirical/

Moral responsibility hinges on the control and epistemic conditions. Empirical sciences, like psychology, neuroscience, computational cognitive science, and artificial intelligence, have a lot to say about both. The entry contains chapters on addiction, spontaneous conduct, the etiology of ignorance, and artificial agents, and relevant other SEP-entries are duly noted.

#sep #new #morality #ethics #responsibility #moralResponsibility #philosophy #science #empirical #addiction #ignorance

'Variance-Aware Estimation of Kernel Mean Embedding', by Geoffrey Wolfer, Pierre Alquier.

http://jmlr.org/papers/v26/23-0161.html

#embeddings #embedding #empirical

#Zoomposium with Dr. Dr. #Walter #von #Lucadou: “On the #borders between #physics and #psychology - #hauntings, #ghosts and other #physical #phenomena”

It turned out that von Lucadou is anything but a #spiritual #ghosthunter, but on the contrary is rather located in #science and #rationally tries to fathom the #physical-explainable phenomena with #empirical ##methodology.

More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2024/03/12/grenzen_physik_psychologie/

or: https://youtu.be/TPCADLkSBWM

“Free Willy - Call of freedom for the #free #will”

In this essay, I deal firstly with “the #philosophical #problem of #freedom of will”, then with the #empirical attacks on freedom of will” and finally with the ‘latest #results of #cognitive #neuroscience’ of #self-control. The whole thing is then rounded off with “proposals for overcoming the #determinism-freedom-of-will #dualism.

More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/08/31/ruf-der-freiheit-fuer-den-freien-willen/

(now online) Training #ML on fair data is key to ensure the resulting ML models will be from #biases and other #ethical concerns. ⚖️⚖️⚖️

But is scientific data annotated with enough metadata to evaluate potential #biases in the data (and its gathering process)? (TL;DR it's a disaster 😭😭)

Are at least improving on this? What can we do to fix this situation? ⬇️⬇️

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-04402-4

(work led by Joan Giner Miguelez with Abel Gómez and yours truly)

#openaccess hashtag#scientificdata #empirical hashtag#fairness #research #machinelearning #trustworthiness #ResponsibleAI

📢📣 I'M HIRING for 3 positions 📣📢

👀 Researcher in #lowcode #agentic software development, linked to the BESSER Agentic Framework and #empirical software engineering https://app.skeeled.com/offer/c/67bc765352cb8184d504f29c?lang=en&show_description=true 🤖📊

👀 Researcher / engineer in #GenAI for #Education as part of a project with Open Assessment Technologies S.A. https://app.skeeled.com/offer/c/67bc6e713b90cbb05461e9e1?lang=en&show_description=true 🧑‍🎓🎒

👀 Senior scientist in #FrugalAI / #GreenAI https://app.skeeled.com/offer/c/67a21604f7515733aaa46c7e?lang=en&show_description=true 💚🍀

Please ping potential and candidates and reshare to spread the word!!

#Hypnosis - as an example of a practical application of the paradigm of "#embodiment" and "#embededdness"

Abstract

The following essay will examine hypnosis as an example of a #practical #application of the #paradigm of "embodiment" and "embededdness" in more detail. In this context, an attempt will be made to prove the #effectiveness of the #hypnosis procedure with the help of #empirical #findings from #cognitive #neuroscience.

More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/11/27/die-hypnose/

Dominant Edaphic Controls On Particulate Organic Carbon In Global Soils
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https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17619 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #soil #global #soilcarbon #climatechange #particulateorganiccarbon #POC #organiccarbon #empirical #model #modeling #machinelearning #AI #profile #biomes #ecosystems #grassland #pasture #shrubland #forest #boreal #arctic #savannas #sampling

'Lower Complexity Adaptation for Empirical Entropic Optimal Transport', by Michel Groppe, Shayan Hundrieser.

http://jmlr.org/papers/v25/23-0856.html

#transport #entropy #empirical

Earthquake Hazard Uncertainties Improved Using Precariously Balanced Rocks
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2020AV000182 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #geomorphometry #probabilistic #seismichazard #analysis #PSHA #groundmotion #earthquake #risk #hazard #naturalhazard #quantitative #fault #faulting #geology #engineeringgeology #empirical #balancedrocks #PBR #California #cosmogenic #10Be #dating #model #modeling #hazardmodel #probability #infrastructure #cost #economics

Software #repositories are a key data source for #empirical #softwareengineering.

Choosing the right sample for your study is key (i.e. to avoid biased samples). We present a methodology for creating representative samples https://livablesoftware.com/creating-representative-samples-of-software-repositories/

#github #msr #esem #stratifiedsampling

📢 We are hiring! 🚨 #Postdoc in #Economics or #Management of #Innovation 💡 with strong background in #empirical #methods.

Possible focus 🔎 #IP #digitalization #AI #Science of Science #Policy #Entrepreneurship #Startups #Behavioral Foundations #incentives #motives #inventors

Application deadline: 1️⃣ 5️⃣ November ❗

More information ℹ️ https://ip.mpg.de/en/research/innovation-and-entrepreneurship-research/postdoc-application.html

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Excerpt from my #journal today... 👉🏼 Live the truth. The only way to truly comprehend the truth is to live it.

The only way to truly comprehend any truth is to live it. Even then, we're susceptible to blind spots.

Perhaps true comprehension is when we can view, understand, and process any #truth on all three levels.

Third-hand: reading, #intellectual understanding
Second-hand: observation, #empirical understanding
First-hand: living, #experiential understanding

Most of us are content with intellectual, third-hand understanding. We go to school, we read books, we learn from teachers.

Scientists take it one step further. We conduct experiments and observe the results. Still, there's an objectivity there that stands in the way of the deepest understanding.

That's where travelers, #lovers, astronauts, #explorers, and #psychonauts come in. We strive to live our knowledge. We live to experience the insights we've gleaned from other means.

We want to #embody our truth.

🙏🏼 Thank you for sharing this moment with me! What do you think?

'Gaussian Mixture Models with Rare Events', by Xuetong Li, Jing Zhou, Hansheng Wang.

http://jmlr.org/papers/v25/23-1245.html

#mixture #gaussian #empirical

New Paper Alert: An Empirical Evaluation of the Trademark Modernization Act

I've just posted to SSRN a preprint of my forthcoming article reporting the first empirical analysis of the Trademark Modernization Act's new ex parte reexamination and expungement proceed

https://jeremysheff.com/2024/07/23/new-paper-alert-an-empirical-evaluation-of-the-trademark-modernization-act/

#EmpiricalResearch #Scholarship #Trademarks #empirical #IntellectualProperty #LegalScholarship #PTO #Trademark