Ashish Mehta

Postdoctoral AI and Psychology researcher at Stanford

[Ashish Mehta @ashishkab0b]

We use money and predetermined prices as a heuristic because barter would be too laborious for every little transaction. I wonder if in the future, more transactions might undergo negotiation by AI agents that deeply understand what you want and what you're willing to offer.

[Ashish Mehta @ashishkab0b]

So much of math pedagogy could be improved by explaining WHY you are doing something *before* you do it. I wonder why this seems to be comparatively more rare in math relative to other fields.

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@archivepilled I'd like to devote some more compute to this problem, but I'm running into rate limit problems. What is the procedure for requesting a rate limit increase on a particular IP?

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@N8Programs artisanal transformer weights

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@pmddomingos It's not so much about saving time for me as it is about being able to do things I wouldn't have had time for before.

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@NTFabiano perhaps people who do things with their brain regularly tend to drink coffee regularly as well?

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@mdneuzerling There are already mutate_if() and filter_if() functions that do this very neatly. No braces required!

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@AcademicChatter 😆

[Ashish Mehta @ashishkab0b]

@Brooke_Criswell @AcademicChatter Python for more general software development purposes and machine learning/AI.

R for traditional statistical modeling, exploratory data analysis, and plotting.

Just depends which one your field dictates is more pressing to learn first.