I'm going to write a book on thyme identification called What Thyme Is It?
Dan Goldstein
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Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research NYC. AI, Economics, Decision Science.
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Great example of using R for efficient, LLM-enabled data science (by Hadley Wickham)
Your LLM can’t math (and that’s ok)
Last week we precisely defined an agent: an LLM, in a harness, that calls tools repeatedly in a loop. This week we'll fix a few deliberate simplifications and explore the consequences of the harness i...
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Hadley Wickham@hadley.nz · 2mo agoAsk a bare LLM to multiply two big numbers and it'll confidently get it wrong. But ask an LLM on the web and it gets it right. What's the difference? In my latest post, I dig further into the harness, what it can do and why it matters: open.substack.com/pub/tidydesi...
Can you think of a movie where the protagonist lives in a 5 over 1?
So I'm walking down the sidewalk near my apartment and I see this big stash of plywood being thrown out. I'm some distance away but I can tell it's beautiful stuff. Very straight, many plys. 1/3
Is it me or does saying six-digit verification codes to yourself make them easier to remember for the five seconds you need them?
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The Society for Judgment and Decision Making Newsletter is ready for download
SOCIETY FOR JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING NEWSLETTER The Society for Judgment and Decision Making is pleased to announce that the latest newsletter is ready for download: This issue contains SJDM Fe…
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Kind of excited for improv theater to come back and satisfy an impending craving for non-AI-generated fiction
No one talks about how the global epidemiologist population went from 3 billion to 30,000 in the period from 2020 to 2026
I would sign up for the Chase Sapphire Rewards card again because it felt so good to cancel it last time
"If it had been STATA, I wouldn't have felt a thing. I'd be dead." What movie?
Hadley Wickham@hadley.nz · 3mo agoI felt a strange burning sensation over my entire body when I entered this building
Classical economics: 98% of the data is easily explained by one theory Behavioral economics: 2% of the data is easily explained by sixteen theories
can mathematical economics explain this hardcover premium?
Airplane designer 1: How can we position the outlet so a phone charger has the greatest chance of falling out? Designer 2: On the ceiling Designer 1: But then it's too easy to see Designer 2: Downward at an angle? Designer 1: Perfect!
Review of Boston based on my 2 day visit: Sailboats ✅ 60⁰ weather ✅ Brick sidewalks ✅ Coach lanterns ✅ Someone solved the exceedingly difficult graph theory problem I left on the hallway chalkboard overnight ✅
Clever thing they do in Boston: They make the bus to the airport seem like a train. You transfer from the train. It looks like it's running on train tracks. Addresses that whole "oh no I don't want to transfer to a bus" anxiety.
not only are they selling a bagel, lox, and juice for $25 but they're putting it in the window like look at this deal! get in here!
Every system or con that depends on the argument "nobody's going to take the time to do that" is going away. AI will take the time to do that.
Malte Elson@malte.the100.ci · 3mo agoThis is why we (@jamiecummins.bsky.social @bethclarke.bsky.social and I) have developed RegCheck, a tool that automatically checks for potential deviations. regcheck.app
My dad inherited my grandfather's tools. They seem to have accumulated screwdrivers at the rate of 1 per 6 years.
We saw this knot on the sidewalk in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles and tied it at home. Carrick bend, apparently.
