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Statistically. You build a model that describes how likely people are to get diagnosed with Alzhimer's as a function of sex: maybe 12 women out of 100 get it, while 8/100 men are d…

It was! FWIW, my comment may have come off as more dismissive than I meant--it's a cool approach. I'd just never seen a visualization quite that like and then ran into two in the s…

Annoyingly, the US government still sometimes does. If you want to take the patent agent exam, your CS degree has to come from an ABET-accredited program, though many of the very g…

Did someone recently release a library (or skill.md [0]) for making these sorts of visualisations? It looks strikingly like the LLM explainer someone posted a few days ago. [0] I a…

I think you'd want to specify that every element in the original list is present in the sorted list (and in the same number, in case of ties). And of course, that raises the issue …

The consensus was that Sandy Island was not a copyright “trap.” Some of the sightings may have been floating pumice from an undersea volcano, and the “confirmations” came from a ch…

If the argument is that it's being manipulated, I'm not sure these stats help.

Why is that sad? It does feel like it’d be “better” if good behavior came from the company’s intrinsic behavior but laws like this help (re)establish norms that encourage those sor…

Because the customers don’t trust that you won’t just flip those switches whenever you’re planning something nefarious.

The web-routing thing is especially gross because a different example shows off pattern-matching.

It's also misses the point. People don't want "glam" papers for ego boosts and bragging rights. They want them to keep the current jobs and perhaps get better ones. Any replacement…

Some analog devices are "DSP" in a wig, but all digital signal processing is really just a convenience wrapper around analog current flow. A very handy one, admittedly, but one tha…

PLOS Biology and PLOS Computational Biology are pretty well-regarded (the others are outside of my field). PLOS One does publish pretty much anything, but that was always meant to …

On top of that, the whole thing is done in fits and starts. You send in the final revision, it vanishes into the void for some unspecified time, and then they offer[*] you 48 hours…

True—-but half of them forget to actually show up and many of the ones that do try to renegotiate the deal.

And it's still true! I appreciate a birthday text/email, but a thoughtful email is nicer and an physical card/letter is better still.

It’s literally a trigram (character) language model. Check any NLP book from before 2015 or so. LLMs have more stuff bolted onto them (embeddings, RLHF) but the autoregressive core…

That's uhh...a language model?

Isn't this pretty much why language models were invented? Pasting something directly into the chat interface seems weird, but if you could somehow just see where P(token | context)…

Ha! I’d never thought about it like that but…yeah. I suspect another big part of it is that marketing and sales are relatively easy to measure and to scale. You can hire one, two, …

And I’m sure those companies also have “backlogs" due to limited labor/labor costs. There are always shelves to face, vehicles with deferred maintenance, and so on. Obviously, ther…

I wouldn't say "called into question", as if the whole idea is bunk. MRI is, in general, a lot harder than people often imagine. It uses complicated physics to measure convoluted p…

I'd be surprised if it were possible to directly measure muscle activity with millimetre wave radar. It looks like they're detecting motion, which is related to motor activity, of …

The man who mysteriously disappeared whilst swimming has a Naval Communications station and a pool complex named after him?! Amazing!

There’s a cute study demonstrating this effect by comparing career success in economics and psychology. The author lists for economics papers are traditionally alphabetized, so mor…