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by ASpring 8mo ago
People have been botting on Runescape since the early 2000s. Obviously not quite at the Claude level :). The botting forums were a group of very active and welcoming communities. This is actually what led me to Java programming and computer
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by ASpring 1y ago
> Remember that test where you ask a LLM whether 9.11 or 9.9 is the bigger number? [Just checked gpt-4o still gets it wrong] Interesting, 4o got this right for me in a couple different framings including the simple "Which number is
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by ASpring 2y ago
Aside from the methodological concerns (very valid) this is also published in a set of journals of controversial repute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDPI
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by ASpring 3y ago
I'm not sure I'm fully understanding your point. Is it that constructing confidence intervals using t-statistics is inappropriate for a lot of real data that isn't distributed somewhat normally?
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by ASpring 3y ago
It is still the Linux of statistical software. Rstanarm is getting quite good though for R users.
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by ASpring 3y ago
It's pretty common in large tech companies to see this but agreed it is not a super intuitive abbreviation.
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by ASpring 3y ago
The wildcat strike is exactly what I was referring to as "We at UCSC didn't always agree with the course of the larger UAW 2685..." The wildcat strike was led by the local union leadership after they abdicated their official
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by ASpring 3y ago
Nice to see a fellow slug! I think you are correct on the timeline being further back. The narrative I recalled was that there was a major victory around health care fee remission before I joined but it looks as if that was part of the orig
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by ASpring 3y ago
It was great for us at UC Santa Cruz. The reason I had healthcare during grad school was because the union won it right before I joined. The reason they have a housing stipend now (in the most expensive rental market in the US[1]) is becaus
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by ASpring 5y ago
Maybe I wasn't very clear, I don't think every single machine learning model should be subject to regulation. Rather I view it more along the lines of how the US currently regulates accessibility standards for the web or enforces
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by ASpring 5y ago
I wrote about this exact topic a few years back: "Algorithmic Bias is Not Just Data Bias" ( https://aaronlspringer.com/not-just-data-bias/ ). I think the author is generally correct but there is a lot of focus
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How RuneScape is helping Venezuelans survive (2020)(polygon.com)
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by ASpring 6y ago
It talks directly about this in the article. The service purports to know the difference between prerecorded and live voices
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by ASpring 7y ago
As a PhD candidate in my last years I was paid 2500 gross per month (for 9 months of the year), take-home was 2250 or so. 70% of net is 1575. 1575 is 63% of my gross pay. Remember, these workers are paid so little they are in the bottom tax
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by ASpring 7y ago
Can you update the article by holding out a portion of the training set and then using it as an unseen test set? Otherwise it's impossible to make the comparisons at the end of the article to other results.
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by ASpring 7y ago
Do measurements of 'screentime' normally include talking on the phone or passively listening to music? Or are you implying something different?
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by ASpring 7y ago
In my mind there are 2 defining axes of data science: The first is Statistics <-> Machine Learning. On one hand, you can be a data scientist that primarily uses statistics to model user behavior, create metrics, test hypotheses that
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by ASpring 7y ago
In the Materials section: "To assess participants’ level of NFC, we used the NFC scale (Cacioppo et al., 1984)." It's a pretty well-accepted standard scale.
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by ASpring 7y ago
But that's worth exploring, right? I'm sure many people would prefer a lucid but shorter life than a longer one that is highly impacted by dementia symptoms
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by ASpring 8y ago
Thanks for this comment, it's well thought out and elucidates what the original poster is probably critiquing. I want to make sure I'm understanding, are you saying that there is no sample size with which you would be comfortable
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by ASpring 8y ago
I completely agree that the questions that we choose to ask determine the knowledge that we get. This experiment is clearly situated within the positivist view of research. However I don't think that invalidates the result, the whole p
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by ASpring 8y ago
It's not just you, taking photos of something can impair your actual memory of the moment itself https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221136811...
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by ASpring 8y ago
Have you considered bracketing it or is this a purposeful marketing point? If a graduate is offered 2 jobs at 39k and 50k, would they make more at the 39k job in the short term?
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by ASpring 8y ago
I don't think they get around it. For most genres except FPS the round trip delay doesn't cause any issues in gameplay. What's an extra 60ms roundtrip when most people have reaction times around 300ms?
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by ASpring 8y ago
To me it looks more like due diligence. If you present only the main result every single reviewer will ask "Well couldn't the instructor's gender/ethnicity/tenure/experience explain this result?" Then you&
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by ASpring 8y ago
The real problem here is the lack of UX Research that went into designing the new interface. All of this could have been foreseen before the design project even started. The whole point of UX research is to avoid expensive redesigns/fe
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by ASpring 8y ago
I agree it is difficult to fault these students who chose majors without fully factoring in lifetime earnings and that we should allow college loans to be wiped out in bankruptcy. However, I disagree that we should let lenders vary interest
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by ASpring 8y ago
Highly recommend this book. I would consider myself experienced with many statistical methods but this book was still chock full of brilliant examples that let me look at things with fresh eyes. It was helpful also in giving me language to
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by ASpring 8y ago
I don't think there are really guidelines on 'how often' UX research should happen. Ideally it is integrated in the development cycle and something like this is found in a usability test and fixed before deployment. Usability
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by ASpring 8y ago
This is unexpected, but now I'm curious. How are you using "AI" here? Are there other things you would point to that indicate IBM is ahead of everyone else?

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