brettcvz

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Our Eukaryotic Moment(contraptions.venkateshrao.com)
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by brettcvz 3mo ago
I set up a Hermes agent for our company and connected it to BigQuery, Stripe, Amplitude, etc so that our nontechnical teammates can ask and answer their own data questions via Slack. It works great! I similarly haven’t found it useful to ru
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Scott Alexander's AI Opinions(astralcodexten.com)
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How Will OpenAI Compete?(ben-evans.com)
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Feed the AI Beast(brettcvz.com)
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Uber Airport Demand Forecasting(uber.com)
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AI Is Eating the World(ben-evans.com)
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by brettcvz 10mo ago
I did some research into this - the public budget is actually reasonably detailed. The biggest gap between your analysis and the actual expenditures are the SFUSD faces much higher facilities costs, higher admin cost due to Teacher coaching
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by brettcvz 10mo ago
Finally, I have no idea where people are getting $28k/year; most schools in CA operate on closer to $14k-$16k per pupil
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by brettcvz 10mo ago
Also this is an area where first principles analysis is likely to lead you astray - I’d recommend starting with SFUSD’s public budget to understand what their cost structure is.
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by brettcvz 10mo ago
The big thing you’re missing is special education, and to a lesser extent English Language Learners. School districts are obligated to teach every student, some of whom cost the district dramatically more than they receive from the state. Y
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Ask HN: Success using Claude Code to build iOS apps?
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The Great PowerPoint Panic of 2003(theatlantic.com)
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Reach out to people who publish(brettcvz.com)
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In EdTech, you either bet on teachers or you have to build one(danmeyer.substack.com)
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The Making of Community Notes(asteriskmag.com)
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OpenAI email archives from Musk vs. Altman(lesswrong.com)
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by brettcvz 2y ago
This seems like the judicial branch just voted to give itself substantially more power. Are there any checks against this? Or can justices just keep granting themselves more powers and invalidating any restraints?
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by brettcvz 2y ago
> demand decent education Yes, but with 125k schools in the US and 3.5 million teachers, how do you determine which of them are providing a decent education?
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by brettcvz 2y ago
I agree gaming the system is always a temptation with accountability systems. I’m not sure it would work like how you are proposing, since purposely stunting a student would penalize the school exactly as much as they would “gain” as the st
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by brettcvz 2y ago
Strong claim! Can you elaborate? Also, the SBAC test administered in California, Washington, and many others is now adaptive, but still schools are measured based on point-in-time aggregates.
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Measure Schools on Student Growth(brettcvz.com)
11 points by brettcvz 2y ago|17 comments
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by brettcvz 2y ago
For those interested in this topic, I’d strongly recommend Bryan Caplan’s “The Case Against Education”: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691174655/th... . He does a much more thorough analysis o
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Why do people spend time learning?(brettcvz.com)
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Pepfar and the Costs of Cost-Benefit Analysis(asteriskmag.com)
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US Coldest Day of the Year Map(ncei.noaa.gov)
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by brettcvz 3y ago
Your comment made me think as well! I suspect we might be caught in a definitional discussion of the word “feedback” - feedback is a subset of “words someone says to me”. My working definition of feedback is “things I tell you about somethi
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by brettcvz 3y ago
I understand the phrase “feedback is a gift” differently than the author: people are not obligated to give you feedback. If someone has taken the time to give you feedback, this is a generous act, regardless of whether you agree with the fe
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Age that kids acquire mobile phones not linked to well-being(med.stanford.edu)
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Art Made with Artificial Intelligence Wins at State Fair(smithsonianmag.com)
52 points by brettcvz 4y ago|50 comments

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