Noah Cowan

Currently @Stanford Statistics PhD, former Physicist and Bad Hockey Player™ | Brown ‘19 | Effective Altruist (Giving What We Can Pledger) and NeoNeoLiberal

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I think about this often

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@RylanSchaeffer @AnthropicAI Did it ask you to use usage credits specifically for Fable? I have had it say “needs usage credits” or something before I was technically at the 100% Fable limit because I was close enough and I suppose it determined it would need the credits to finish the request.

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@DocOctagonical @deltaVee42 @jasondeanlee He is a great mathematician from a great school who graduated from a great school (with a fantastic advisor) who is clearly posting this as a bit. Did you look at the prompt? Have you read his prior work?

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@DocOctagonical @deltaVee42 @jasondeanlee I’m not sure you know who you are replying to

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@chrisdeville Speaking as a young millennial who thinks the New Abnormal is great but obviously not the best Strokes album and that In Rainbows is the best Radiohead album (but it’s close) this one really hit close to home

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@Arda @ESPNInsights Gotta be Petteri Nummelin right?

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@CaltrainAlerts Any update? ETA on when they’ll start moving again?

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@vsbuffalo @besttrousers The Bonferroni correction (which is just a way to keep the correct likelihood of error when you’re testing multiple hypotheses) is a principled way to change the threshold for significance! It sounds like the authors of the paper knew what they were doing!

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I hope they all come with ceremonial machetes

[Elex Michaelson @Elex_Michaelson]

L.A. will soon be getting extra help from @JoeBiden's administration to fight homelessness.

@POTUS is sending full-time federal staffers to cut through red tape.

@MayorOfLA @KarenBassLA told me: "We have been lobbying to be a part of this effort and today that came true!"

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@Noahpinion but it also seems true that people with serious mental illness are more likely to be found in prison in the US than in a hospital https://t.co/krtjP9k08Y

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@Noahpinion I think the Economist included an important correction to that chart a little after it was published (in 2003)

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@nominalthoughts This article reinforces the point that basically everyone who has used LaTeX knows: you’re trying to create tables it sucks and you should use a table generator website, but if you use equations a lot it is better

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Interesting to note both that absolute number of disruptive papers hasn’t changed (we are making lots of incremental headway!) and that disruptive and incremental aren’t “good” and “bad.” Incremental growth in knowledge is what science is built on!

[Max Kozlov @maxdkozlov]

'Disruptive' science has plummeted — and no one knows why.

Research in the 2000s is much more likely to incrementally push science forward than to veer off in a new direction.

Check out my latest for @Nature with @russellfunk, @dashunwang, @yian_yin

https://t.co/Uh5hAHkrSw

[Max Kozlov @maxdkozlov]

'Disruptive' science has plummeted — and no one knows why.

Research in the 2000s is much more likely to incrementally push science forward than to veer off in a new direction.

Check out my latest for @Nature with @russellfunk, @dashunwang, @yian_yin

https://t.co/Uh5hAHkrSw

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@rhyslmurphy1 I have never loved anything as much as this

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@k2mcb @NateSilver538 Probability that it rains 8 times out of ten days if the probability that it rains every day is .8 is 45*(.8)^8*(.2)^2 = .302 which is the max of the binomial density with n=10, p=.8. ChatGPT is incredible but also v bad at math.

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It’s that time of year again when we are reminded of the great choice of our generation:

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@CStrable @AlexNowrasteh @bechhof @Craig_Lawson but it’s still *15 YEARS* for the average sibling

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Some of the new IRS money should go into making sure that low income filers are getting all of the refund they are owed. I want automatic EITC filing! I want people to love the IRS!

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Oh look it’s Bear Grills

[Dinty W. Moore @brevitymag]

My 4th of July weekend plans are off to a good start

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@rayyyynell The artists on that soundtrack are way too big/expensive/(also good??) for the covers to have been the cheaper option