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Re:AI Measurement Science on Thursday October 08, 2026 @05:54AM (#50003849)
This looks vibe-written. Why should I trust it then? Some guys at Stanford decided to feed Claude their ideas and ask it to write a lengthy textbook for them?
Re:Spatial languages: Writing code in 2D on Saturday July 25, 2026 @09:33PM (#49053702)
Notational programming explored this, also with quantum computing, except the spatial notation was interleaved in a well-established 1d language (Python): https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3526113.3545619
Re:LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate on Sunday May 10, 2026 @09:07AM (#48083688)
My problem with this kind of work is—-obviously they do. Did anyone seriously think otherwise? I’m shocked why these are even questions deserving scientific scrutiny. Have people truly lost their critical thinking that badly already?
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Re:Anxiety and Frustration at NeurIPS'24 on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @09:47AM (#42509025)
Sorry, but these people are not victims. I went through a tech PhD; it was well-known how fast the wind changes and the trendy topic falls by the wayside. Big data and crowdsourcing pre-AI boom, then ML, then ethics of AI (around 2020-21), now we are at AI agents which is inherently more product-oriented. Beyond this, we had COVID and a now brutal tech market, despite the US economy seemingly way up and the AI craze continuing. If you went into a CS PhD thinking nothing changes and people will beg you to take cushy salary positions with total freedom, then you simply didn’t do your research.
Wow. This actually disproves a key subtext of the match mentioned by some commentators: that Ding failed to convert winning positions to wins. Instead, it shows that Ding converted more often than Gukesh. The fact that Gukesh won seems more a statistical anomaly in light of this evidence. We are indeed probably post-hoc rationalizing the winner.
Re:Do Artifacts Have Politics? [pdf] on Monday March 25, 2024 @01:03AM (#39812996)
“Do politics have artifacts?” was the rejoinder article. IMO that article should be as widely read as the main one, because it provides a warning to those who take the main one as gospel. Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/030631299029003...
Re:Claude for Google Sheets on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @04:17PM (#38618675)
This seems like a sheets implementation of something like ChainForge (https://github.com/ianarawjo/ChainForge).

It's curious that Anthropic is entering the LLMOps tooling space ---this definitely comes as a surprise to me, as both OpenAI and HuggingFace seem to avoid building prompt engineering tooling themselves. Is this a business strategy of Anthropic's? An experiment? Regardless, it's cool to see a company like them throw their hat into the LLMOps space beyond being a model provider. Interested to see what comes next.

Re:There is no "seasonal affective disorder" of ChatGPT on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @12:06PM (#38614967)
The original poster making this claim used a t-test to compare means (https://x.com/RobLynch99/status/1734278713762549970?s=20). Turns out the data is not normally distributed, making a t-test worthless (https://www.statology.org/t-test-assumptions/).

There might be other tests to do, but for this specific setup, the claim has been debunked.

Re:GPT-4 has Seasonal Depression on Monday December 11, 2023 @03:43PM (#38605263)
Can’t reproduce this. See for yourself: https://x.com/IanArawjo/status/1734307886124474680?s=20

Inspectable evaluation flow in ChainForge: https://chainforge.ai/play/?f=2yvqkpe1vpus8

Re:Anthropic Claude for Google Sheets on Monday December 11, 2023 @01:59PM (#38603911)
This seems like a sheets implementation of something like ChainForge (https://github.com/ianarawjo/ChainForge).

It's curious that Anthropic is entering the LLMOps tooling space ---this definitely comes as a surprise to me, as both OpenAI and HuggingFace seem to avoid building prompt engineering tooling themselves. Is this a business strategy of Anthropic's? An experiment? Regardless, it's very cool to see a company like them throw their hat into the LLMOps space beyond being a model provider. Interested to see what comes next.

Re:Comparing 60 LLMs with a set of 20 prompts on Sunday September 10, 2023 @11:51PM (#37462666)
ChainForge lets you do this, and also setup ad-hoc evaluations with code, LLM scorers, etc. It also shows model responses side-by-side for the same prompt: https://github.com/ianarawjo/ChainForge

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