RA_Fisher

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by RA_Fisher 5mo ago
Claude Code will write the whole thing for you. Whereas doesn’t Copilot require input along the way of coding? ie- it doesn’t do all the programming for you
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by RA_Fisher 5mo ago
Do people bring their own then (considering work doesn’t pay for it)?
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by RA_Fisher 6mo ago
AI gives us a means of leverage. We can do more with less. production = f(labor, capital, technology) + eps
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by RA_Fisher 6mo ago
Anthropic and Claude are running circles around Google / Gemini for me these days. Anthropic was quite helpful for a while but strange limit issues started popping up. The final thread was a bug that essentially broke my ability to dev
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by RA_Fisher 6mo ago
They’ll probably receive most if not all of Iran’s focus now.
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by RA_Fisher 6mo ago
I limit the risk and insist on payment upfront.
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by RA_Fisher 7mo ago
Location: Brighton, MI, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Bayesian statistics, econometrics, causal inference, experimental design, machine learning, AI systems, R (expert), Python (expert), SQL (expert), Stan/brms
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by RA_Fisher 7mo ago
That’s good, reducing healthcare costs will increase access and boost the our health. Agree that AI should replace CEOs. They’re often biased in unhelpful ways that AI isn’t and it costs people wellbeing.
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by RA_Fisher 7mo ago
True, though I don’t think they’re too different on that dimension.
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by RA_Fisher 7mo ago
AI makes it easier to catch up. :)
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by RA_Fisher 7mo ago
I use AI to shop and it seems easy for an AI to understand when that’s the case (they can do statistics and physics after all).
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by RA_Fisher 7mo ago
I think they'll keep the status quo of quarterly, bc if any announce switching I'd expect their stock value to fall (bc in my mind the decision would transmit more bad potential than positive potential for future earnings). ie- I
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Show HN: Prompt Enricher – paste a rough prompt, get a structured one back(statwonk.com)
1 points by RA_Fisher 7mo ago|1 comments
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by RA_Fisher 7mo ago
I built this after noticing how much variation there is in AI output depending on the quality of the prompt. Models matter a lot — but even the best model underperforms when the prompt is vague. Enriching the input is one of the highest-lev
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How Long Do Major Strait of Hormuz Disruptions Last?(statwonk.com)
2 points by RA_Fisher 7mo ago|0 comments
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by RA_Fisher 7mo ago
Does that extra work bring in more revenue? I think that’s the key question.
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by RA_Fisher 8mo ago
Progress can be reviewed over time, and I'd think that'd take a lot of the risk out.
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by RA_Fisher 8mo ago
I’m a fan of using a variety of methods to teach, no issue with that. My issue is with teachers that don’t admit how the world is changing. Dinosaurs.
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by RA_Fisher 8mo ago
What seems false?
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by RA_Fisher 8mo ago
I use them to probabilistically program. They’re better than me and I’ve been at it for 16 years now. So I wouldn’t say they’re superficial at all. What have you tried to use them for?
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by RA_Fisher 8mo ago
Claude, Codex and Gemini can read code much faster than we can. I still read snippets, but mostly I have them read the code.
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by RA_Fisher 8mo ago
Agree, if Bezos hadn’t alienated the readership, they’d probably be doing well. I used to look up to him before he became an obsequious traitor.
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by RA_Fisher 9mo ago
Very fair. I think even more we underestimate our own sentimentalities. eg- the teacher that believes adding or multiplication has to be done a particular way (like the standard algorithm vs. partial products).
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by RA_Fisher 9mo ago
I think learning arithmetic is a good idea, but it’s only a part of computation. I don’t think we should get too hung up on a particular method of computation (bc there’s so many ways).
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by RA_Fisher 9mo ago
It’s possible to run up to 4 agents at once vs. Claude Code’s single thread. Sometimes I’ll find meaningful quality differences between what agents produce.
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by RA_Fisher 9mo ago
That reminds me of when teachers would say: what if you're without a calculator? And yet we all have smartphones in our pockets today with calculators.
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by RA_Fisher 9mo ago
Infinite. :) Chess is strictly unbounded.
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by RA_Fisher 9mo ago
Very true. The queues need to be improved.
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by RA_Fisher 9mo ago
Exactly, air security has actually done a really good job over the last 25 years. I hope they keep improving it.
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by RA_Fisher 9mo ago
Econometrics allows us to understand and measure these things. This result isn’t surprising at all. Treating employees well has a similar effect in improving productivity.

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