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levocardia
·hace 9 horas·discuss
100% AI-generated. Yawn.
levocardia
·hace 20 horas·discuss
This is missing the most important thing which is why HRs are so damn useful. It's because (a) survival analysis is very statistically powerful, but (b) many survival curves do not follow a very well-described parametric function. The genius of David Cox was in realizing that, when proportional hazards hold, you can just cancel out the unknown survival function and get the multiplicative hazard ratio immediately, in a statistically powerful and statistically efficient manner. Extremely useful if you are, say, trialing a novel chemotherapy drug and want to end your trial ASAP to get everyone on the intervention arm if the drug actually works.

The places where proportional hazards gets squirrely (very long observation times, crossing curves) are a small fraction of the use cases of survival analysis, and dunking on them for "not being Bayesian" or whatever misses this broader context.
levocardia
·anteayer·discuss
I think the "secret sauce" is not juicing the benchmarks. Claude models just feel like they are better than the benchmarks suggest, in terms of smarts and creativity, while models from every other company feel worse relative to what you'd think from the benchmarks. Only company to really internalize Goodhart's Law, IMO.
levocardia
·hace 3 días·discuss
Cash for Clunkers was not mandatory
levocardia
·hace 7 días·discuss
Also this argument is easily refuted by the US Postal Service, which physically delivers individual pieces of paper in a few days, for pennies.
levocardia
·hace 9 días·discuss
I was actually waiting for it to pull out a butcher knife and reveal the landing page is actually a promo for a techno-horror film.
levocardia
·hace 9 días·discuss
Real answer: how many animals can you think of with three legs?
levocardia
·hace 9 días·discuss
I have a startup idea: I will make the robot that ferries your laundry robot up and down the stairs.
levocardia
·hace 10 días·discuss
3.5 days to escape the permanent underclass ;_;
levocardia
·hace 10 días·discuss
I'll take the opposite side of that bet. My prediction is that Fable 5 Re-Release will have safety classifiers that flag much more often on mundane front-end and back-end coding tasks.
levocardia
·hace 10 días·discuss
I sense a business opportunity: a web app that de-sloppifies real estate, airbnb, and vrbo photos! See what it really looks like, thanks to the power of AI!
levocardia
·hace 11 días·discuss
This article is 100% AI generated slop
levocardia
·hace 12 días·discuss
The craziest part is that a game theory expert can't see the problem here!
levocardia
·hace 12 días·discuss
Yes, you really need "dollars per amount of RAM you need for standard computing tasks." Windows 11 requires a bare minimum of 4 GB of RAM, Window 10 only needed 1 GB.
levocardia
·hace 16 días·discuss
"The real problem with this package is that it makes things easy, instead of hard"
levocardia
·hace 17 días·discuss
|> works too
levocardia
·hace 23 días·discuss
...which is why there are no emerging far-right-populist political movements in welfare-heavy societies like the UK, France, and Germany, right?
levocardia
·hace 24 días·discuss
Conversely: the self-help nonfiction book existed because it was the only practical way to monetize "good advice" or "good ideas" at scale. Now you can do a podcast or a youtube series and try to make money from advertising/affiliates/etc, but for a very long time, "buy my book" was the only game in town
levocardia
·el mes pasado·discuss
So are you short the market?
levocardia
·hace 2 meses·discuss
There is a footnote discussing this point; he uses 5% as the risk-free rate.