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adventures in bayesian medicine: when diagnosing mad cow disease, you need to consider not only the evidence but also your prions

@WomanCorn
> You abandon a sunk cost. You didn’t want to. It’s crying.

okay new task find all the papers in which people have undergone the CPT and do a meta-analysis

Would it be a good thing if someone wrote a Wikipedia article on neural network scaling laws?

@why sorry friend you're stuck in here forever

@Arcana not to be confused with Ngorongoro, an area in Tanzania, or Ngo, who is a research scientist at OpenAI

@feralbot misread as "this is a planet"

still true tho, since round

@tulpa guy who would rather read than sleep

(i do display a revealed preference for reading supremacy)

daygame locations as a multi-armed bandit

guy who would rather read than meditate

optimize by satisficing, satisfice by optimizing

a problem with minmaxing is that the crisper your model of the world becomes, the more conservative you become—but intuitively it should be the other way around!

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