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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. T…

> 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 diffe…

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

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 some…

It is still the Linux of statistical software. Rstanarm is getting quite good though for R users.

It's pretty common in large tech companies to see this but agreed it is not a super intuitive abbreviation.

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 le…

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 …

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 …

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 regulate…

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 correc…

It talks directly about this in the article. The service purports to know the difference between prerecorded and live voices

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,…

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…

Do measurements of 'screentime' normally include talking on the phone or passively listening to music? Or are you implying something different?

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 use…

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.

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

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 n…

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…

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...

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?

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 reactio…

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 explai…