LanguageGamer

I use LLMs to answer certain questions, but those are often questions that I wouldn't have bothered using a search engine for in the past, rather I would have asked a colleague or just thought through the question on my own. And when I try to ask an LLM questions that search engines are good at, I'm most often disappointed.

In other words, it's not clear to me LLMs are going to eat into the market share of search engines, rather than just providing a tool with largely orthogonal use cases. But we'll see how the tech develops from here.

"When asked to draw circles representing themselves and friends or family, for example, people tend to self-inflate their own circle but they self-inflate more in individualist cultures."

This sort of methodology sounds sketchy to me - how much can we really learn from this? Does it reproduce? If it does, how do we know there isn't some other cause?

Since I don't see anyone else mentioning this:

The geometric mean (6.9) is all that really matters for investors, not the arithmetic mean (8.4) - the arithmetic mean under-weights the importance of negative years to long term performance.

For example, if the market is down 20% one year and up 20% the next year, the arithmetic mean will be 0%, but you'll be down 4% (0.8*1.2 = 0.96), which is reflected in the geometric mean of (about) -2%.

That's less likely given the wide variety of species.

I want to believe this. Do you have any citations?

My experience would suggest shipping higher quality software is a lot cheaper in the long run, but has up-front costs that often times startups can't afford.

With mastery learning, it's the feedback loop that's making the difference. In some domains where the subject matter itself can be computationally modeled (such as math), it seems plausible that the feedback loop as well can be emulated by software. There have been many attempts and many failures to do so, but I'm optimistic and believe it's a matter of further investment and research.

This shows that wealthier people are moving to California, while middle and lower income people are leaving (People with an income lower than 110k a year).

This is a tragedy in its own right. Small businesses create richer communities and help stave off cultural homogeneity. They can be a source of pride for locals. They help de-centralize economic power. I hope we can find a way to rebuild what's being lost here.

Counterargument: If you believe that a system is immoral, its better to minimize your participation in that system, even if you're coerced to participate to a certain degree.