Universities and colleges in the United States have a philosophy of education different from what I gather is common in Europe. Almost all schools require not just mastery in a chosen subject, but also breadth requirements; some number of credits in each of math, science, writing, and the humanities, or some other distributional system.
Meanwhile here at 5300 feet above sea level it consistently takes one to three minutes longer than the number on the packaging.
I mostly use LLMs for coding. Here's the system prompt I have:
General programming principles:
- put all configuration in global variables that I can edit, or in a single config file.
- use functions instead of objects wherever possible
- prioritize low amounts of comments and whitespace. Only include comments if they are necessary to understand the code because it is really complicated
- prefer simple, straightline code to complex abstractions
- use libraries instead of reimplementing things from scratch
- look up documentation for APIs on the web instead of trying to remember things from scratch
- write the program, reflect on its quality, simplicity, correctness, and ease of modification, and then go back and write a second version
I don't post on LessWrong much but I would much rather be explicitly rate-limited than shadow-banned, if content I was posting needed to be moderated.
Perhaps there is a different scheme for dividing gains from coöperation which satisfies some of the things we want but not superadditivity, but I’m unfamiliar with one. Please let me know if you find anything in that vein, I’d love to read about some alternatives to Shapley Value.
I had a weird one today; I asked it to write a program for me, and it wrote one about the Golden Gate Bridge, and when I asked it why, it used the Russian word for “program” instead of the English word “program”, despite the rest of the response being entirely in English.
I don't think the Elimination approach gives P(Heads|Awake) = 1/3 or P(Monday|Awake) = 2/3 in the Single Awakening problem. In that problem, there are 6 possibilities:
P(Heads&Monday) = 0.25
P(Heads&Tuesday) = 0.25
P(Tails&Monday&Woken) = 0.125
P(Tails&Monday&Sleeping) = 0.125
P(Tails&Tuesday&Woken) = 0.125
P(Tails&Tuesday&Sleeping) = 0.125
Therefore:
P(Heads|Awake)
= P(Heads&Monday) / (P(Heads&Monday) + P(Tails&Monday&Woken) + P(Tails&Tuesday&Woken))
= 0.5
And:
P(Monday|Awake)
= (P(Heads&Monday) + P(Tails&Monday&Woken)) / (P(Heads&Monday) + P(Tails&Monday&Woken) + P(Tails&Tuesday&Woken))
= 0.75
I also consider myself as someone who had—and still has—high hopes for rationality, and so I think it’s sad that we disagree, not on the object level, but on whether we can trust the community to faithfully report their beliefs. Sure, some of it may be political maneuvering, but I mostly think it’s political maneuvering of the form of—tailoring the words, metaphors, and style to a particular audience, and choosing to engage on particular issues, rather than outright lying about beliefs.
I don’t think I’m using “semantics” in a non-standard sense, but I may be using it in a more technical sense? I’m aware of certain terms which have different meanings inside of and outside of linguistics (such as “denotation”) and this may be one.
I owe you an apology; you’re right that you did not accuse me of violating norms, and I’m sorry for saying that you did. I only intended to draw parallels between your focus on the meta level and Zack’s focus on the meta level, and in my hurry I erred in painting you and him with the same brush.
I additionally want to clarify that I didn’t think you were accusing me of lying, but merely wanted preemptively close off some of the possible directions this conversation could go.
Thank you for providing those links! I did see some of them on his blog and skipped over them because I thought, based on the... (read more)
Three times in the past month, I've run across occasions where Shapley values were mentioned or would have been useful. There are a couple of good explainers of Shapley value already on the internet, but what most of them lack is a bunch of worked examples. I find that many times, the limiting factor in my ability to understand a concept is whether or not I've been exposed to multiple examples—so this post is where I'll be posting some of the examples I worked through to understand how Shapley value works.
I'll start with a brief overview of Shapley value, but first, a caveat. I think it's fine to skim most of the... (read 2172 more words →)
From this twitter thread by Jonathan Gorard, lightly edited by me https://x.com/getjonwithit/status/2009602836997505255?s=20
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