Knowledge Delta

Economics & agriculture lecturer in China, PhD.
AI for Research & Education | Building my own agents
Learning in public
Ask better. Use AI better. Judge better.

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Hi X! I'm building Knowledge Delta, and here's my 30-second introduction.
I'm a researcher in applied economics and rural development, exploring how AI is changing research, education, and the way we think.
I'm also building AI Skills and Agents for real research workflows.
Even the hand-drawn animation in this video was created using a Skill I developed, after quite a few rounds of trial and error.
Now I'm curious:
If you could have an AI Agent handle one part of your research workflow, what would it be?
Reading papers? Cleaning data? Running analyses? Writing? Teaching?
I'd love to hear your ideas. I might build the most requested one next.
Ask better. Use AI better. Judge better.

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@huang18825 卧槽！我半夜蹲到了什么！

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Engel's law: the richer you get, the smaller the share you spend on food. My food share is impressively low. Mostly because my AI subscriptions are eating the budget.

恩格尔定律：收入越高，吃饭的开销占比越低。我的恩格尔系数很低。主要是因为 AI 会员费占比太高了。

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Dunning–Kruger: the less you know, the more confident you are.

AI is the perfect mascot:
it sounds most certain exactly when it knows least.

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@s_batzoglou Agreed! Affordable, open-weight models at that level are a huge win for independent developers.

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@chrisalbon Agree！

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@vista8 微信文章是真的可以！

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@thsottiaux Best one-word changelog of the year.

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@levelsio Turns out the real flex is a commute so boring nobody remembers it.

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@pmarca Funny timing, given how many people said this would be the year AI killed movies.

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@rohanpaul_ai Grad school was always partly an apprenticeship in taste. Trouble is, taste is a lot harder to put on a CV than a solved problem.

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@GaryMarcus My read: the clean productivity effect is still hard to find in GDP. What does show up is mostly data center spending, which is a cost before it's a gain.

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@Iris97w I'd want to know which detector made that call, they swing a lot.

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@ns123abc Next step: Sam reviews his own proof and accepts it with minor revisions lol

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@riya_mishra007 To be fair, Wikipedia had a talk page where people fought over every source. ChatGPT just says it with a straight face.

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@newscientist Journals feel this first. Submissions can scale with a model, careful reviewers can't, and that gap lands on a few unpaid people.

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@TokenGremlin Open source doing OpenAI's homework for them is not the plot twist anyone ordered lol

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@reionize Curious whether this month's AI proof dumps changed your answer at all, or if theory was always more about taste than output.

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@newscientist High schoolers getting hands-on time with a quantum computer, probably before most of their teachers did, is a nice reversal.

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@Yuchenj_UW Every "OSS will never catch up" take should come with an expiry date at this point.

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@Noahpinion Tombstone with Chris Pratt and a BlackBerry in every saloon. I'd watch it exactly once.