Simon Spavound

Head of Data Science, US Ops @Peak_HQ, Forecasting, Economics and #rstats enthusiast. PhD Economics from @LancasterUni. Views my own.

[Simon Spavound @SimonSpavound]

@abhinavcurious Add legal, and compliance, and strategy...

[David K 🎹 @DavidKPiano]

Before AI coding agents, I'd constantly have 2 or 3 side-projects that I would struggle to finish

AI completely changed the game

Now I have 15-20 unfinished side-projects

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@s8mb I think prices overall might adjust but the individual level distortion remains as I am "locked-in" to my lower taxes due to my older valuation

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@dc_lawrence I think this is an interesting proposal, particularly as it avoids the government/council having to revalue the property. A downside is that by only doing re-evaluations at sale you could cause some weird effects to discourage moving (compare with Prop 13 in CA which is similar)

[Sam Altman @sama]

Small-but-happy win:

If you tell ChatGPT not to use em-dashes in your custom instructions, it finally does what it's supposed to do!

[Simon Spavound @SimonSpavound]

@AntBreach @HCH_Hill Definitely check out the Atkinson's coffee shop inside!

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Beautiful, but rare, sight

[Simon Spavound @SimonSpavound]

When did Microsoft make copying images into Office so much more difficult? Every time I muscle-memory paste this appears - meaning I have to right-click and go to a menu-item. Is there some reason that this is the default? #office #microsoft #softwaredesign #uiuxdesign

[Shreya Shankar @sh_reya]

dear RL reward function designers: I hate that my AI-generated code is putting everything in try-except blocks. The program executes without exceptions but it’s all wrong and such a pain to debug. I cannot seem to steer my prompts out of this undesired behavior 😭

[Simon Spavound @SimonSpavound]

@stianwestlake @WorksInProgMag Also this report / data is timely for this discussion! https://t.co/LiVwFWNC5o

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@stianwestlake @WorksInProgMag If I can't get the metal for e.g. aircraft production, why would I acquire the advanced components in a different region (all other things remaining equal) - particularly as I imagine that the energy intense production components are also likely to be the most expensive to move

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@Apple please add one time alarms to iOS so that my phone stops looking like this (you don't want to see what my morning looks like from early flights)

[Chris Albon @chrisalbon]

I just fixed slack

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Does anyone have any good examples of use of stem and leaf diagrams? Or are they now archaic and should be removed from teaching? #stats #visualization

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This excellent post by @redblobgames is everything I did not think I needed to know about Hexagons: https://t.co/GNsltawVK1

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To be a long time England supporter #ENGSPN #EURO2024

[Simon Spavound @SimonSpavound]

Thinking about the architecture that would be suited to solving the ARC-AGI challenge: it demonstrates the lack of reasoning capabilities of LLMs - I am more skeptical that this is the final test for "AGI" #LLM #AGI #AI

[ARC Prize @arcprize]

Can you solve it? Reply with the answer.

[Simon Spavound @SimonSpavound]

Shout out to services that have added WhatsApp to MFA rather than texts - amazing for the times with no access to mobile service or when abroad. Banks/Finance companies should copy @PayPalUK and others