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by orzig 2y ago
I am so impressed with the work of these bloggers. The lawsuit from Francesca Gino they’re dealing with in the Harvard Business School case, and death threats in this one. It takes courage like this to make a systemic change.
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by orzig 2y ago
People are having this conversation and “actual harm” keeps winning: https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/jonathan-haidt-a...
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Reform UNOS: 25% of donated kidneys are thrown in the trash(marginalrevolution.com)
1 points by orzig 2y ago|0 comments
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by orzig 2y ago
Look, I basically agree with the goal and am trying myself but: Try watching the Little League World Series on YouTube twice weekly for 4 years and you will have 1% of an understanding of why this is hard.
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The (policy) research that changed my thinking(vitalcitynyc.org)
1 points by orzig 3y ago|0 comments
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by orzig 3y ago
I have not used it, but every review of the “AI software engineer“ DEVIN has pointed out that the marketing claim is absurd but the user interface is pretty cool.
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by orzig 3y ago
That's fair, it might not be for you. In 'old school ML', for a binary classifier, there's the concept of Precision (% of Predicted Positive that's ACTUALLY Positive) and Recall (% of ACTUALLY Positive that's P
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by orzig 3y ago
I also had to build intuition for when it will be appropriate versus not. It's hard to describe but one very positive signal is certainly "will any hallucination be caught in <30s"? Even in ChatGPT Plus you can have it wri
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by orzig 3y ago
Exactly. Example: maybe 1% of the code I generate is bash. I used to try to memorize patterns, but of the top 20 I'd use each less than once per year. Now, instead of that 1% taking 5% of my time, it takes 2%. It's all "simpl
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by orzig 3y ago
Biology has probably had the most replication scandals of the hard sciences, but if you look back 10 years, there have been several tangible breakthroughs. CRISPR, mRNA vaccines, Cystic Fibrosis treatments, malaria vaccine, and that’s just
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by orzig 3y ago
Adding a little bit of optimism: there are many decent people in all of these fields. They might not as often make the news (initially for extraordinary “achievements“ then for downfalls), but it is entirely possible to “make it in this wor
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by orzig 3y ago
Can we aspire to some baseline level of truth seeking where a phrase like “literally explicit” requires even the slightest bit of evidence? In this case, it wouldn’t have even been hard to find that evidence, though you are assertion is ove
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by orzig 3y ago
I loved the book The Billion Dollar Molecule (Reviewed by Nature here: https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt0594-521.pdf ) about the founding of Vertex Pharma. Really drives home the amount of money, time and luck it take
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by orzig 3y ago
Do you think the solution is better software, or is real blocker on the business/policy/cultural/incentives side? Inspired by that series I looked into building a better front end for clinical trials.gov but after seeing a fe
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by orzig 3y ago
Article is paywalled but the paper it’s based on is freely available here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4675401
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by orzig 3y ago
The author also blogs his latest Python projects (mostly Bayesian data analysis) on https://www.allendowney.com/blog/ , which I have really enjoyed.
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by orzig 3y ago
Surely it’s a matter of degree through? I was at a company with a recently acquired-in product line and the amount of chaos on release day each month was notably higher. I would have described the original product’s development process as
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by orzig 3y ago
Having gone through the same cycle, I've done some amount of acceptance. HN is least bad, as long as I don't get sucked into writing comments (oops). The total amount of time I 'waste' is really not huge, so I try not to
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by orzig 3y ago
Neither are exactly what you asked but: 1) I did more than a year of freelancing work for a small company owned by a friend. It was necessarily stressful but I think the friendship was net positive. 2) I joined a fast growing team at a lar
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by orzig 3y ago
If you’re in the United States, I promise you that any specialist you need to see will not have all your relevant data - I was once had a procedure held up because they could not get my weight imported from a different computer in the same
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by orzig 3y ago
I will always upvote a good lessons learned post!
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by orzig 3y ago
Love a published null result!
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by orzig 3y ago
What prompt engineering do people use in real programming situations?
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by orzig 3y ago
What's your annual salary divided by 2,000 (VERY roughly your hourly rate), and how many months of the service would it buy you as you try it out? Totally understand if you're not employed, or barely making ends meet, but given th
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Ask HN: Do children benefit from media that's "too advanced" for them?
3 points by orzig 3y ago|3 comments
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by orzig 3y ago
Can I open them with general software?
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by orzig 3y ago
About 3 hours of dedicated feedback to the algorithm (including plenty of unfollowing, which is different from removing connection) has turned made it quite bearable. I don't _love_ it but OTOH I appreciate a place that I can be remind
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by orzig 3y ago
That's fine, I appreciate it! We're all conversing in public, and I'm sure it will be useful to someone. And besides, this information makes me even more happy with an opinion I already have - isn't that what the interne
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by orzig 3y ago
I'm in the US but I'll say for sure that things like this are about half the reason I haven't hired any employees for my LLC. I wish I could, but I'd be de facto hiring an accountant as well!
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by orzig 3y ago
My client had most of their money in Silicon Valley Bank. If there had been any haircut they would have (appropriately) put their employee payroll first. That was a scary time!

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