poomer

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by poomer 3y ago
As someone who's spent a lot of years in an academic social science field and in analytics/modeling more generally, I feel strongly that most educated people have way too much trust in academic literature. Outright generated data
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by poomer 3y ago
I'm very skeptical that this will succeed. As with other extremely hyped social medias (anyone remember Clubhouse?) it's already filled with influencers and e-celebs trying to get in early, but these people always poison the well
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by poomer 3y ago
Having worked in analytics at various tech companies including Fb, the reason is almost always just that app users have way higher usage rates and ad clickthrough rates. Of course if you know basic stats you will realize this is spurious co
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by poomer 3y ago
The paper does not claim that firms have increased profit margins: "the limited available data does not point to a widespread increase in markups" https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2
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by poomer 3y ago
I find this an extremely odd and uninterpretable article for this reason. When people say that "x drives y" they usually mean that "x causes y". And inflation is by definition price hikes. So article seems to be saying t
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by poomer 3y ago
There is a stop sign in front of my house and probably around 95% of cars stop, and the amount of cars that completely ignore it (ie don't even slow down) is easily <1%. I think this is just more of an issue with local cultural norm
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The Harried Leisure Class(marginalrevolution.com)
4 points by poomer 3y ago|2 comments
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by poomer 3y ago
This class of startup, "build domain specific LLMS using your own data", is extremely crowded right now but I am not optimistic about their future. For large companies, the actual modeling work for this is already easy for any ML
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by poomer 3y ago
Thank you, I appreciate your transparency with this work.
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by poomer 3y ago
Most time series models assume you've already deseasonalized your data in advance. Typically, seasonality is obvious to the human doing the modeling (e.g. sales being up near Christmas), so it's usually preferable for the human to
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by poomer 3y ago
These shape matching questions are the problems asked in the study: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jordan-Barbone-2/public... I would bet that quite a few people just guess when they find this type of questi
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by poomer 3y ago
At work we were facing this dilemna. Our team is working on a model to detect fraud/scam messages, in production it needs to label ~500k messages a day at low cost. We wanted to train a basic gbt/BERT model to run locally but we c
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by poomer 3y ago
You could make a nice living covertly selling the AI "startups" to wealthy folk who just want bragging rights about being founders.
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by poomer 3y ago
Great article. This part especially rings true to me: "If researchers have an ideological bent, a meta-analytic null may just be an expression of the typical sentiments of researchers". When I was in academia, it was increasingly
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by poomer 3y ago
I do not remember the specific metrics, but there was a big focus on the fact that their CPC/CPM/etc was lower than alternative social media, meaning advertisers put less value on clicks/views from Reddit than other platforms
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by poomer 3y ago
The 42% stat is not correct, the poll in question has that 42% of US has not heard of chatGPT, only 14% of US has used it. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/24/a-majorit...
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by poomer 3y ago
I had a job interview with Reddit last year for a modeling related position and it was one of the strangest and most user-hostile interviews I've ever had, even as someone who's spent many years working for SV adtech companies. Al
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by poomer 3y ago
Quite a few do - here is databricks https://www.databricks.com/
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by poomer 3y ago
I am skeptical that this is due to any positives on the NYC side, but more a story of the Bay Area's decline. Of the 796 US cities with 50k+ population, San Francisco ranks 796/796 in population growth % over the last 2 years (-7.
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by poomer 3y ago
I find this article to be too high-minded. Most Americans don't own cars or support car-friendly policies due to some notion of car=freedom or some other culture wars nonsense. Americans own cars because most of them live in single-fam
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by poomer 3y ago
It does feel like there are more and more startups every YC batch that are just cynical cash grabs. For example, all the recent LLM-related startups that are just UI wrappers around APIs - its hard to imagine that the founders built them fo