Italy did an accidental experiment on the effectiveness of GitHub Copilot

Re:Italy did an accidental experiment on the effectiveness o... by dadadad100 on Sunday December 03, 2023 @01:53PM (#38509658)

By turning off access to GPTs the Italian government showed how their country’s developers felt about copilot

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Re:Italy did an accidental experiment on the effectiveness o... by jruohonen on Sunday December 03, 2023 @02:00PM (#38509721)

Like with most event studies, they don't control any other events that might possibly affect the likelihoods. It seems that the ban also occurred in a weekend. They should also show the raw time series from a longer period in order to see how stable the series are and thus how realistic the effects are.

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Re:Italy did an accidental experiment on the effectiveness o... by bonzini on Sunday December 03, 2023 @02:38PM (#38510021)

Copilot was not included in the ban, only ChatGPT. Flagging.

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Re:Italy did an accidental experiment on the effectiveness o... by dadadad100 on Sunday December 03, 2023 @06:43PM (#38511985)

Yep. Sloppy on my part. Suggested better title above but I can’t change it myself.

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