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Review: The Unaccountability Machine, by Dan Davies
'Everyone now kind of sounds the same': How AI is changing college classes
The Economy of Loneliness
Tiny-TSM: Efficiently Training a Lightweight SOTA Time Series Foundation Model
Pandas AI
Impact of Small Savings over Time
Do you look like your name?
Show HN: Fermi estimation game (100% written by ChatGPT o1)
https://huggingface.co/spaces/skanderovitch/fermi_estimation_game
I wanted to try out ChatGPT o1 model to generate a full streamlit app, asking Fermi style of estimation questions, without looking at the codeWith some simple prompts, it did a fairly good job, in about one hourI only needed to copy paste error messages a couple of times, for it to suggest correctionsMy take-away is that LLMs will empower many non-technical users to achieve their (simple /...
Interactive Data on the UK Government Wine Cellar
The Art of Richard Feynman
Benford's Law
Play: How random can a human brain truly be?
TDAmeritrade: Timeseries Analysis with Stumpy
My Favorite Algorithm: Linear Time Median Finding
The Misunderstood Kelly Criterion
Absurd Trolley Problems
The Moral Machine (MIT)
Show HN: Understand politics by visualising manifesto embeddings
https://huggingface.co/spaces/skanderovitch/politics
Based on embeddings of the political parties manisfestos (gathered from ChatGPT) on different matters, we visualise how different they truly are on a PCA projectionI want to extend this to US parties/candidates and make it more general
Ask HN: What are we compensated for when we work an extra day?
I am feeling I am missing something obvious, help me out:In a white collar / non-hourly job, how much should an employee receive for forfeiting a holiday (holiday buy-back) ?Assuming (for 2024): - working all weekdays : 234 days - except 8 bank holidays - except 20 days of holidays a year, all taken in June - except all week ends : 104 daysThe annual salary is 100k and is paid in equal...