bookish

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by bookish 7mo ago
Thank you
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Claude Code for Data Work(simplicityissota.substack.com)
1 points by bookish 7mo ago|3 comments
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Agentic AI Runs on Tools(simplicityissota.substack.com)
7 points by bookish 1y ago|0 comments
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by bookish 3y ago
Agreed! This might be the fastest moving tech area right now, so it makes sense that it's generating a lot of news and interest.
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by bookish 3y ago
Does the sentence imply that they aren't costly? Would you write "strongly averse" instead of "somewhat averse" or "it is the end of the world" instead of "it isn't the end of the world"? If
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by bookish 3y ago
I've been called worse things, and at this stage in life it is hard to be offended by people who don't know me well enough to give an insightful insult. But I hadn't responded to the earlier comment because it was more genera
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by bookish 3y ago
Totally agree about visualization, and that those authors are great advocates for it. Confidence intervals are definitely much more informative and intuitive than p-values. Would the policy be "look at our confidence intervals later an
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by bookish 3y ago
It all depends on what you're experimenting on. I do think there are many teams out there who are (in effect) making decisions with less certainty than this, but they wouldn't want to actually quantify it.
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by bookish 3y ago
Classics!
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by bookish 3y ago
Thanks for that. I'll give [1] a read. I'm familiar with [2], and cited one of those papers in the blog. About the stupid or harmful nature of null hypothesis testing in general, what do you recommend instead for decision making a
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by bookish 3y ago
The "stasis" and "arbitrarily adjustments" regimes that I wrote about are certainly ones that I've seen, which don't rely solely on p < 0.05 but are still pretty suboptimal. Furthermore, it's not only a
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P < 0.05 Considered Harmful(simplicityissota.substack.com)
122 points by bookish 3y ago|86 comments
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What Is an Embedding, Anyways?(simplicityissota.substack.com)
2 points by bookish 4y ago|0 comments
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Entropic Emanations(simplicityissota.substack.com)
1 points by bookish 4y ago|0 comments
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Looking for the simplest change that will eliminate the most bugs(simplicityissota.substack.com)
2 points by bookish 4y ago|0 comments
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by bookish 4y ago
The right choice between the "get something done and working" and "your systems should be going down" paths might depend on the situation. Sometimes the right call for the company is to actually have "relative succe
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Shared constants across programming languages(simplicityissota.substack.com)
2 points by bookish 4y ago|0 comments