Eiko Fried
@EikoFried
Associate Prof @UniLeiden. Mental health & data science (https://eiko-fried.com). Building an early warning system for depression (https://WARN-D.com).
🔥 Folks—there's a new paper in town, and I'd love to tell you about it. In the paper I wrote with @JkayFlake & Don Robinaugh, we take a bird's eye view on depression measurement. History, present, future. In particular, we discuss shaky theoretical & methodological foundations🧵
Great new paper by @js_yarrington comparing engagement and perceived helpfulness of six different digital cognitive/behavioral interventions. Free download link good through Sept 3. on next slide
In February 2024, I wrote Scientific Reports about a published meta-analysis claiming that mindfulness interventions affect neural plasticity, 'cementing the neuropsychological basis of mindfulness-based interventions'. Paper was retracted yesterday—here a process summary.🧵
Turns out that raising insane expectations has a price: “Compass Pathways stock has crashed by nearly 50% despite announcing its psilocybin Phase 3 trial met its primary endpoint [..] investors seem unconvinced by the impact of the therapy in the study.” clinicaltrialsarena.com/news/compass-s…
Anyone at SIPS? Just arrived in Budapest :). Say hi if you see me!
🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times LESS accurate than humans. Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.
The scripts of my dreams have a similar quality to the output of early LLMs: a plausibility prediction of the next step in a scene without a lot of coherent backwards or forwards considerations.