@atpfm y’all might find it interesting that Apple is already using LLM tech in spellcheck. It’s apparently roughly GPT-2 based https://jackcook.com/2023/09/08/predictive-text.html
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Ryan Briggs
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Raising kids & bread & grant money. Cleaning data & diapers & fish. International development & EA. Social scientist. Working at the University of Guelph, living in Toronto.
hlanthornNew article in World Development Perspectives! With the amazing co-authors Tom Wein & Torben Fischer, we provide a framework for thinking about #dignity in the design, delivery, and donation-seeking for aid, as well as some initial empirical results that suggest we have much more work to do do.
https://t.co/BfGtPWb0aZ (and https://osf.io/rcwv2/)
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Eugen RochkoChecking out @ivory!
So the problem with improving your understanding of research methods is that you're angry all the time
So far this year under the new NAFTA:
* Canada won its case against the US on automobiles,
* won a case on solar panels,
* and lost a case that requires us to open up some of the dairy market.
So we kinda won three times.
People are like “omg fixed effects introduces all sorts of weird weighting issues” and I’m like “may I introduce you to my old friend control variables?”
David Reinsteinhttp://bit.ly/unjournal_CAP: How can we change academia's review/publication process?
Leadership, new incentives & stakeholders, offer bridging steps, quantitative benchmarks, make our output useful, use new tech, reward early adopters.
I know people here don’t like quote tweets, but over on Twitter someone just got quote tweeted so hard he ended up in a Romanian jail. It’s hard to compete with that.
Peter EllisGood blog post (sequel to another good one) on how science should try other quality control methods than pre publication peer review. I haven't seen this on Mastodon but see it lots in my Twitter feed, so who can I follow on Mastodon to see more #metascience content like this? https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-dance-of-the-naked-emperors
