Tag: research
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AI Software Development – What Does The Data Say?
Jason Gorman's summarised the state of the art in research into the efficacy of LLM-assisted software engineering, and I was reassured to see that it closely mirrors my own personal experience of these technologies, with which I've now experimented for several years.
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The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.
Minas Karamanis has produced a fantastic article about his experience of the use of LLMs for research in physics, and the concerns that he has about its use by less-experienced researchers just beginning to find their way in the field. I echo his thoughts, from my own field of software engineering, and wonder... how will we allow junior developers to gain experience in a world that may encourage them to use LLMs rather than trying and failing for themselves?
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How You Read My Content (The Answers)
Kev Quirk ran a one-question survey recently about how people discover and read his blog posts, and I think it's a pretty inspiring idea. Sure, consent-based surveying introduces biases... but what analytic technique doesn't, really?
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Do you know the story of how Tom Lehrer hid an Easter Egg in an academic paper he wrote at the NSA, and his joke wasn't discovered for almost six decades?
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Are Geocache Logs Getting Shorter?
Are geocaching log entries getting shorter? Let's extract a sample of 134,000 of them and make Excel cry. With graphs!
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That moment when you realise, to your immense surprise, that the research you've spent most of the year on might actually demonstrate the thing you set out to test after all. 😲
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Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial
by BMJ ...
Conclusion
Parachute use did not reduce death or major traumatic injury when jumping from aircraft in the first randomized evaluation of this intervention.
However, the trial was only able to enroll participants on small stationary aircraft on the ground, suggesting cautious extrapolation to high altitude jumps.
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Yeh et al (BMJ)
As always, when the BMJ … -
Long-forgotten virus could help solve antibiotics crisis
Alexander Belcredi (TED)
Fantastic lightweight introduction to bacteriophages and how they can potentially be our next best weapon against infection as we approach the post-antibiotic age. Plus an interesting look at the history and the discovery of bacteriophages! -
How Edge Follows In IE's Security Failings
Replicating an experiment Steve Gibson performed into browser EV certificate acceptance, Dan discovers that an ugly security-weakening "feature" of Internet Explorer also appears in Edge. What the hell, Microsoft?
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AI Nationalism
AI Nationalism by Ian Hogarth (Ian Hogarth) For the past 9 months I have been presenting versions of this talk to AI researchers, investors, politicians and policy makers. I felt it was time to share these ideas with a wider audience. Thanks to the Ditchley conference on Machine Learning in 2017 for giving me a …
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What Does Jack FM Sound Like?
Does Jack FM, Dan's favourite local radio station, always play the same old stuff? Let's find out with the help of some data mining...
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Disaster Analysis
In the aftermath of this week's shocking lunchquake, Dan is joined by Dr. Pepper, who surveys the damage.
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Hawaii
I'm scared. Kit is researching the laws governing marriage in Hawaii, and I'm not exactly sure why.
"Hey; you can get married at 15 in Hawaii!"
Meanwhile, I'm currently coding a wiki engine. For those of you who aren't in-the-know, a wiki is a collaborative network of web pages that anybody can edit. They're fun, if a … -
Head Sizes
Is there a correlation between head circumference and intelligence, as measured by GCSE scores? Our research says no.
Raw data:
MALE Head Size (cm) GCSE Score TOPLINE BOTTOMLEFT BOTTOMRIGHT 60.4 45 12.87 115.025625 21.855625 57.2 48 31.605 56.625625 2.805625 57.5 44 1.565 61.230625 32.205625 56.4 41 -18.83 45.225625 75.255625 57.1 44 1.485 55.130625 32.205625 56.6 …