New from @Stripe Economics today:
One of the biggest labor market uncertainties is whether AI will displace human work at scale. Evidence so far is still early & mixed. The story of travel agents—a clear case of tech displacement—is instructive. And not entirely bleak. 🧵 /1
Our internal LLM tool, built last March, allows Stripes to safely experiment with LLMs.
With 3K Stripes using the tool weekly and over 700 shared prompts, the tool is reshaping how we work and build for our users.
We shared more with @bentossell
"Inconsistency in Conference Peer Review: Revisiting the 2014 NeurIPS Experiment"
We logged the publication/citation status of over 1000 papers that were originally submitted to the 2014 conference.
Write up on ArXiv here: https://t.co/qcjeP4Rgjl
We’re hiring a data scientist to gather insights and help us evolve @stripe’s developer experience.
You’ll be essential to enabling developers around the globe to build their businesses faster. 🌍🛠
Join us! https://t.co/uSvZUSCvAn
The World War II mobilization of US science powered the take-off of regional technology hubs and decades of technological progress, from Daniel P. Gross and Bhaven N. Sampat https://t.co/WkhfG7qfjq
Ole Miss had some of the best Tite front beaters vs. LSU, that I'd seen in a long time. The individual plays weren't as impressive is how they were packaged together. They centered on sawing the defense in half and getting lead blockers to the perimeter.
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Everybody talking about how Jordan treated Horace Grant and Scott Burrell... this Robert Parish anecdote didn't get any run (✍:Jackie MacMullan) https://t.co/RrcI1HqMvO
It was a real privilege to work on this project - an unusual confluence of science, engineering, data, and design. I’m especially proud of our long list of citations and attention to detail in parameterization.
1/ Some folks at Stripe built https://t.co/7g2o78kwE6.
While no model is perfect, it does three things a bit differently: (1) goes to extensive lengths to fit a sensible parametric model to observed data (both medical and mobility);
Stan User's Guide is one of the biggest gifts to the statistical computing community. Now with chapters and worked examples in Poststratification, Decision Analysis, and even Bootstrap and Bagging. https://t.co/mkdXf9Fbi0
Can we get a thread going of some our favorite NFL concepts of the year? Can just be something interesting or funny, a cool blitz, coverage, formation, RPO, whatever.
Here's one of my favorites, the #Titans getting into 02 personnel and running a toss play to TE Jonnu Smith.
A longish thread on the old death-of-distance argument, claiming that the Internet will let us do everything from anywhere so place doesn't matter.
Inspired by a twitter conversation last night among @AlecStapp@AdamSinger@TaylorLorenz@TheStalwart
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