agronomicon

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   by agronomicon 3y ago

   > I find 77,000 or so articles on "rice" in PubAg Analyzing this data set with an LLM would be a very good research project.
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   by agronomicon 3y ago

   AI is simply about finding correlations in large data sets. Computers don't understand anything, they just shuffle symbols. So training an LLM on agricultural research will likely uncover patterns that would not be obvious to people an
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   by agronomicon 3y ago

   Understanding is not necessary for uncovering statistical correlations.
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   by agronomicon 3y ago

   That's exactly the type of data set that can be analyzed by large neural networks. Heterogeneous data with hidden and non-obvious statistical correlations which would be hard to uncover with classical statistical tools and techniques.
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   by agronomicon 3y ago

   I just mean finding correlations in data sets that are hard to find in other ways. The main idea is that there are plenty of data sets on various cultivars and experiments for how to increase yields. There are probably patterns in the data