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by jcbe 21d ago
I stumbled upon a statistic cited by the New York Times and other high-profile sources about how many people in Brazil are vegetarian. I traced it back to its source and find that in reality, the share of vegetarians is probably an order of
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There Aren’t Really 30 Million Vegetarians in Brazil(jacobeliason.com)
5 points by jcbe 21d ago|1 comments
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by jcbe 2mo ago
+1, I noticed and fixed a few erroneous dates that would have presumably been difficult to surface otherwise
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by jcbe 8mo ago
Kind of a funny day to post this (WMATA just released data showing crime rates at a 25-year low)
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Survey weights missing in gender ID prevalence finding cited by New York Post(jacobeliason.com)
5 points by jcbe 11mo ago|0 comments
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by jcbe 1y ago
I have tried fairly persistently to make Apple Photos my primary photo management tool and I finally gave up recently. The app crashes repeatedly when I have it open—only occasionally until this year but the frequency has increased to the p
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by jcbe 1y ago
Wow the way this renders on mobile is dizzying
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by jcbe 1y ago
It's been my understanding since GPT-3 that tools that claim to identify LLM authorship of arbitrary text are basically unreliable. This apparently is not true anymore: Pangram has a false positive rate below 0.5% and is robust to vari
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Apparently it's easy to detect LLM-generated text now(papers.ssrn.com)
5 points by jcbe 1y ago|2 comments
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by jcbe 2y ago
Great tool. I recognize at least three names in my neighborhood who received money for a new single member LLC
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by jcbe 3y ago
They use the difference between measured red and infrared light divided by the sum of measured red and infrared light https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalized_difference_vegetati...