It occurs to me a lot of people are interested in AI but aren't programmers themselves. This quick post describes using an AI helper called Github CoPilot. It will do so via a short scenario wherein CoPilot helps me write a bit of code. It will be almost completely non-technical...
There's been a bit of discussion about TDCS here on LessWrong. If you don't know what TDCS is here's an article from Technology Review. Here's a company (soon) selling a DIY kit to build your own. > tDCS is one of the coolest pieces of health/ self improvement technology available...
I have neither the qualifications nor the access to properly understand these two paywalled critiques of the RAND Health Insurance Experiment. Health Plan Switching and Attrition Bias in the RAND Health Insurance Experiment The Rand Health Insurance Study: A Summary Critique Has there been any talk about either of these...
I just started a new job and I've been exporting Confluence pages to PDF and putting them in a Claude project so I can just ask Claude stuff.
SketchUp makes it where creating these sort of drawings is pretty easy! It's a great tool for ideation.
I live/work in a fairly rural area where there are 7 towns with the biggest having a population of ~10k and the smallest ~2k and they all have varying requirements. I've had conversations with the single code enforcement officer or director in each of them and we all agree how aggravating it is that the requirements vary from town to town. Three of these towns butt right up next to each other so the code requirements can vary from one side of the street to the next!
Contrary to what I would expect, the biggest town, and the county seat, has by far the fewest regulations on homes of them all.
Anyway, of the... (read more)
Yeah, I flip houses fairly often and it's something I have to be aware of when remodeling stuff.
I'm sure it's different in different areas.
Interestingly, and ridiculously, this bedroom would not pass city code where I live for two reasons:
I'm not exactly claiming that it is or is not useful in improving outcomes, I'm just wondering if any "hard, sterilized" data exists.
Anyway...
Your comment does make me wonder some things. Take the following more as me exploring my state of mind on a lazy Sunday afternoon and less as a retort or rebuttal.
I'm not sure that we actually disagree...it's hard to quantify the amount of skepticism we're both talking about. You can't say "you should be skeptical level 3" and I can't say "no you should be skeptical level 4.3". For all either of us knows from the conversation so far is that I'm less skeptical than you!
... (read more)Be careful not to cargo-cult
I guess I should've also stressed the difference between alumni thinking it's proven useful (which is easy to determine) and it actually being useful in accomplishing stuff (which is the more interesting and harder to determine part).
None of the things you mention seem like fool-proof methods of determining the second case.
has proven useful to the majority of our alumni
Curious as to how this was established. I can see lots of ways for confirmation bias to creep into this.
What about something like text buttons?
When I'm designing a UI, I try to use text if there is not a good iconographic way of representing a concept.
Something like:
AGREE (-12) DISAGREE
I'm not sure how that would look with the current karma widget. Would require some experimentation.
It occurs to me a lot of people are interested in AI but aren't programmers themselves.
This quick post describes using an AI helper called Github CoPilot. It will do so via a short scenario wherein CoPilot helps me write a bit of code. It will be almost completely non-technical (or, at least, as non-technical as is possible). The aim is to describe the experience and practicalities of using this technology.
Since this is aimed at non-programmers, a piece of background information is in order:
Programming is mostly not about remembering how to do specific things. It's more about knowing how systems work so you know what to look up when you want to do... (read 460 more words →)
There's been a bit of discussion about TDCS here on LessWrong. If you don't know what TDCS is here's an article from Technology Review.
Here's a company (soon) selling a DIY kit to build your own.
... (read more)tDCS is one of the coolest pieces of health/ self improvement technology available today. The US Army and DARPA both currently use tDCS devices to train snipers and drone pilots, and have recorded 2.5x increases in learning rates. This incredible phenomenon is achieved through a very simple device called a tDCS machine.
Today if you want to buy a tDCS machine it's nearly impossible to find one for less than $600, and you are typically required to have a
I have neither the qualifications nor the access to properly understand these two paywalled critiques of the RAND Health Insurance Experiment.
Health Plan Switching and Attrition Bias in the RAND Health Insurance Experiment
The Rand Health Insurance Study: A Summary Critique
Has there been any talk about either of these on OB/LW? If not, why not and could anyone with access to the papers make any comments about how much weight they carry?
I post this here because the RAND results are brought up so often in discussions here, I hope others find it to be an appropriate venue.
Yeah, I haven't got it automated yet. Someday I'll have the time.
Another place I did this was with the mountain of onboarding docs I got. Now I can just ask Claude stuff like "how early do I have to request time off and who do I contact?" or "What's my dental insurance deductible?"