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by capnrefsmmat 2y ago
Sorry, I should have said adjectives or verbs, as it's "develop" turned into a noun. Just like "discernment" or "punishment". The etymology isn't relevant for classifying it as a nominalization, only
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by capnrefsmmat 2y ago
Maybe, but I'm not sure how much the style is deliberate vs. a consequence of the post-training tasks like summarization and problem solving. Without seeing the post-training tasks and rating systems it's hard to judge if it'
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by capnrefsmmat 2y ago
Freely available preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.16107 I'm biased (as an author), but I think Figure 3 is the key result, as well as Tables 4 and 5 in the appendix. (Or Table 1 in the published version.) The
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Do LLMs write like humans? Variation in grammatical and rhetorical styles(pnas.org)
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by capnrefsmmat 2y ago
Ironically, Huff was then hired by the tobacco industry to write a book undermining the evidence that smoking causes cancer. It was to be called How to Lie with Smoking Statistics , but never got published: https://www.refsmmat.
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by capnrefsmmat 2y ago
That's the page for their normal, non-3D, non-VR cinema camera.
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by capnrefsmmat 2y ago
As you might expect from something called the National Crime Victimization Survey, it's quite detailed. Initial interviews are conducted in-person. There's a screening questionnaire that asks extensively about a bunch of specific
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by capnrefsmmat 2y ago
> Another reason drawing this connection can be fallacious is because in areas of persistently high crime people don't report it because law enforcement will not do anything about it (or won't even take a report). Exceptional e
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by capnrefsmmat 2y ago
The best sources I can find indicate that doctors work ~25% more hours than other workers, on average, though this has declined since the 70s. https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(23)00166-6/ful... https
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by capnrefsmmat 3y ago
The AMA is not a collective bargaining association, just a professional organization. When doctors unionize, they become part of other unions: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/business/economy/doct
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by capnrefsmmat 3y ago
These problems are hard, but have already been solved. The B-1 Lancer has active turbulence reduction built into the airframe, via the small canards on its nose. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19840005129 It's de
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by capnrefsmmat 3y ago
Incorrect: libraries are indeed archiving scholarly journals like the ACM ones, even when they are online-only. For instance, CLOCKSS: https://clockss.org/ Essentially, CLOCKSS member libraries operate scrapers to download
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by capnrefsmmat 3y ago
There are fairly few bright-line tests, because they're hard to write. For instance, consider your proposed test: The copyrightability of works would change retroactively depending on the capabilities of AI. Something that can't b
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by capnrefsmmat 3y ago
> Where is the cut-off exactly ? This is the difference between legal thinking and CS. There is a spectrum between 100% human-generated (and copyright-eligible) and 100% machine-generated (and ineligible), and in between there are gray
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by capnrefsmmat 4y ago
Yes, I agree that it's important to put the absolute risk in context. The NEJM paper that started the concern about myocarditis put it this way: > Vaccination was most strongly associated with an elevated risk of myocarditis (risk r
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by capnrefsmmat 4y ago
It would presumably be able to detect a massive increase, yes, if by "massive" you mean something like a 10x increase in rate. One could do a power calculation to determine its ability to detect different sizes of effect. Normally
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by capnrefsmmat 4y ago
When reading this sentence: > We did not observe an increased incidence of neither pericarditis nor myocarditis in adult patients recovering from COVID-19 infection. you should be careful not to interpret this as evidence of absence. The
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by capnrefsmmat 4y ago
I admit as many students as fit into my office, and talk to them together. For larger classes I have booked larger rooms so ten students can come at once. In those courses, often students will come to work on the homework, and ask questions
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by capnrefsmmat 4y ago
> I wonder how many times a student has taken time out of their day to trek across campus to the professor's office only to find the professor away, or head-down busy grading papers, or just about to leave? Typically, professors ann
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by capnrefsmmat 5y ago
Blanks typically contain wadding to hold the powder in place; this wadding is ejected from the gun and can, at short range, kill people. This has famously happened on several film sets before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by capnrefsmmat 5y ago
For what it's worth, that is not an NIH study; it may be listed on PubMed but it appears to be conducted by researchers at the Integrative Biochemistry & Immunology Laboratory, Department of Animal Science, Kazi Nazrul University.
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by capnrefsmmat 6y ago
As I said, "This data is from the National Crime Victimization Survey, which directly asks respondents if they have been the victim of a crime, and is not based on police reports or prosecutions." The NCVS results, as far as I am
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by capnrefsmmat 6y ago
It's hard to square this comment with the simple fact that property crime is, in the United States, currently much less common than it has been in decades. For example, household burglary dropped 56% from 1994 to 2011. https:/&
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by capnrefsmmat 6y ago
The foot was defined in terms of meters only in 1959, and the definition was slightly different than prior use. (The US and the Commonwealth previously used slightly different feet.) The survey foot is the definition prior to the definition
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by capnrefsmmat 6y ago
Facebook does not see individual responses to this survey; they direct users to a survey hosted on Qualtrics whose data is aggregated at Carnegie Mellon, which provides the county and state estimates back to Facebook.
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by capnrefsmmat 6y ago
No, this is a standard example of a claim you cannot make with frequentist statistics, and can only make with a Bayesian credible interval. In frequentist statistics, the true population parameter is fixed, not random, so the claim "th
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by capnrefsmmat 6y ago
I do not think this argument is relevant to estimating effect sizes, rather than binary outcomes as the Less Wrong post does. If the claim had been "no patients treated hydroxychloroquine recover", and the study found no patients
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by capnrefsmmat 6y ago
To be clear, this claim > For example, it's highly unlikely (roughly less than 2.5%) that HCQ reduces the onset of ARDS by half. is not one that can be justified by frequentist statistics such as those used in the article. We can&#x
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by capnrefsmmat 6y ago
It's important to interpret these results carefully: "no evidence of efficacy" does not imply evidence of no efficacy, and in fact the uncertainty in this study is quite large. The sample size is small enough that it would
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by capnrefsmmat 7y ago
There's a lot of existing research here. Generally, the studies show that directing police patrols to high-crime areas does reduce reported crimes. For example, a recent systematic review of studies found that increasing policing to

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