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by tfirst 9d ago
Abstract: Why do we have so many meetings? Few workplace features are so scorned, yet seemingly so necessary. This paper provides the first large-scale economic evidence on workplace meetings using an original survey of more than 9,000 work
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Meetings(nber.org)
2 points by tfirst 9d ago|1 comments
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by tfirst 1mo ago
if the argument is good enough, it should be worth writing on your own.
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by tfirst 2mo ago
If there's going to be any pause, I'm sure it will come from a populist movement. I just can't imagine misplaced worries about AI water use will translate into the kinds of policy the authors want to see.
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by tfirst 2mo ago
If carbon taxes are already a lethal policy for an political campaign, it's absurd to think that fears of ASI will create any real movement around pausing AI. If there is any movement to pause AI development, it will come from the gene
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by tfirst 2mo ago
"Full dosage of the Phosphor material is associated with an increase in final exam performance." This sentence is accurate, but inevitably leads to the confusion you see in these comments.
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by tfirst 3mo ago
If model performance continues to scale with model size, I have a hard time seeing how local models will have any chance of competing with models hosted on datacenter hardware. 1. There are strong economies of scale in hosting inference (ba
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by tfirst 3mo ago
It's obvious why they're doing this: there's a lot of money in healthcare. What there isn't is good evidence that these full body scans actually improve outcomes.
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by tfirst 3mo ago
Their goal is to downgrade people who are violating their TOS, so I think they'd have some argument there. I have no idea how they'll deal with inevitable false positives, especially given how oversensitive most of the other trigg
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by tfirst 4mo ago
no worries thanks for merging!
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ShinyHunters claims data theft from 8,800 schools (Instructure/Canvas)(bleepingcomputer.com)
145 points by tfirst 4mo ago|2 comments
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by tfirst 7mo ago
The public communication around research like this is terrible. > "2 to 3 Cups of Coffee a Day May Reduce Dementia Risk. But Not if It’s Decaf." - NYT > "Daily cups of caffeinated coffee or mugs of tea may lower dementi
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by tfirst 7mo ago
The Wikipedia page on this is not bad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_dilution
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by tfirst 7mo ago
The most interesting finding is that the non-DHA effect is much stronger than the DHA effect. This doesn't align with the mechanistic explanation. Either this this is a novel and interesting result, or it's more evidence that we&#
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by tfirst 7mo ago
Holding all else equal, noisier estimates bias us towards the null. This is attenuation bias. However, the estimates are still probably overestimated. Confounding, p-hacking, publication bias, all move us towards larger estimates.
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by tfirst 8mo ago
Observational studies, and meta analyses relying on them, don't resolve the fundamental problem of causal inference. The best you can do without an experiment is a really clean natural experiment, but those are rare. It's hard to
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by tfirst 9mo ago
The same question might be asked about ASML: if ASML EUV machines are so great, why does ASML sell them to TSMC instead of fabbing chips themselves? The reality is that firms specialize in certain areas, and may lose their comparative advan
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by tfirst 9mo ago
If you are submitting an AI cover letter you should be aware that a significant portion of other applicants will be submitting nearly identical cover letters. If a human being is likely to read your cover letter I would write it yourself -
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Thoughts on AI Progress(dwarkesh.com)
6 points by tfirst 10mo ago|0 comments
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by tfirst 10mo ago
I'm sure that will work until dropshippers learn that putting 'SolidGoldMagikarp' or some other glitched token in the title of their listing makes ChatGPT always rank it first.
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by tfirst 10mo ago
We seem to be on a cycle of complexity -> simplicity -> complexity with AI agent design. First we had agents like Manus or Devin that had massive scaffolding around them, then we had simple LLMs in loops, then MCP added capabilities a
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by tfirst 10mo ago
What is the SEO equivalent of optimizing your products for LLM search? Can someone prompt inject ChatGPT to recommend their products in the listing description?
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5M Parameter LLM in Minecraft [video](youtube.com)
5 points by tfirst 1y ago|0 comments
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by tfirst 1y ago
The article addresses this specific use under the 'Claude Code Subagents' section. > The benefit of having a subagent in this case is that all the subagent’s investigative work does not need to remain in the history of the main