Damek
Damek
@damekdavis.bsky.social
Optimization and Machine Learning
Assoc Prof Wharton stats
http://OptimizationInPyTorch.com
http://damekdavis.com/random
wait so how does this site work do you double post from twitter?
May 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I agree, but how do you convince rationalist and more importantly policy people influenced by rationalists and their P(doom). IME conversation just devolves into (1) bet me next time I make a claim; (2) it’s better than nothing; (3) It doesn’t matter how bad initial guess is I just update my prior.
October 18, 2023 at 6:39 PM
Important to couple cynicism with naïveté.
October 13, 2023 at 9:36 PM
Interesting do you have a link to a write up/paper?
October 7, 2023 at 11:29 PM
I guess we’re speaking kind of generally here. can you provide concrete examples?
October 7, 2023 at 8:06 PM
putting aside theoretical guarantees does conformal empirically provide significantly better coverage than non conformal techniques? (Not sure whether this is what you’re saying.)
October 7, 2023 at 7:58 PM
Is there an example application that really benefits from conformal prediction, I.e., where the results you get are significantly better than classical confidence intervals in some metric? I ask every person I meet if CP actually works in practice and I never get a satisfying answer.
October 7, 2023 at 5:34 PM