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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 …

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 movem…

"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 c…

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. …

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.

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, especial…

no worries thanks for merging!

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 …

The Wikipedia page on this is not bad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_dilution

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 i…

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, publi…

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 nat…

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 speci…

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 l…

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.

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 h…

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?

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 doe…