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Duncan Gates
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R/stats addict in ed-tech, committed dilettante of linguistics, history, and the world in general.
The amendment would simply read: “all justices have an x year term limit, currently serving justices are subject to that term limit as abbreviated by their current tenure since appointment.” or something along those lines. There are specific carve outs throughout the constitution like this
August 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
A looot of money in education being poured into LLM tools to help teachers modify curriculum to fit their classroom/needs, which sure, is helpful, but that seems like the emblematic case, it’s a helpful productivity boost that needs significant oversight
March 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Does using ‘by’ count as an “explicit” loop?
by(df, df$g, function(sub) lines(sub$x, sub$y, col = as.factor(sub$g))
Feels less loopy than writing lapply for some reason
December 17, 2024 at 2:18 PM
I’ve watched Google AI/ChatGPT/Claude hallucinate the sources or be incorrect in terms of what the source actually says. I see companies trying to do this constantly with their chatbot gates to customer support as well, it creates a very poor user experience that prevents people from reaching out
December 15, 2024 at 6:02 PM
I see this everyday where I work so it’s by no means a student exclusive issue, but what the FAQ page has that LLM’s never will is a 0% error rate. Rearranging a UI, adding semantic search, and making better design choices (which ed-tech works on constantly!) seems a vastly superior solution to me
December 15, 2024 at 5:40 PM
What’s the benefit of a curated LLM tool over a curated FAQ page in this case?
December 15, 2024 at 4:12 PM
I think the key issue is the framing - people will give different answers if you present all the caveats we have discussed in this thread. Does media present negative bias? Yes. Does that mean surveys presenting forced misapprehension of data are meaningful? Not really imo
November 28, 2024 at 10:52 PM
Concerning that the trend has reversed in the last 5 though!
November 28, 2024 at 10:38 PM
This is infant mortality (dying before 1 year), not child (5-year and below) as was originally posted. That WDI data is quite difficult to dig into source material, but I would reference the latest NVSS reports, infant mortality in the US ⬆️:
www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nv...
www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nv...
www.cdc.gov
November 28, 2024 at 10:11 PM
I tried tracking down the source here and was unsuccessful, the CDC official data indicates that in the US it has gone up in the last 5 years which is consistent with other medical data I am aware of: wonder.cdc.gov/controller/s...

Arguable that it is as a result of covid, but upwards trend.
November 28, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Key word “voters beliefs”, there is no political compass messaging slider that can fix already broken beliefs that aren’t even real, gotta change the topic at that point. Generic dems ran better with swing voters
November 13, 2024 at 6:15 AM
Genuinely curious about the source here, would love to read it. But I think this illustrates my exact point, she tried to campaign to the right/middle on all of these points and they didn’t believe her! It came off as inauthentic and was hopeless from the start of her candidacy.
November 13, 2024 at 5:59 AM
Independents who are famously indecisive, difficult to engage en masse, and hold nuanced views that go beyond the right-left distinction?
November 13, 2024 at 5:52 AM
It was a lot of wasted effort campaigning for republican voted as it stands. Which direction do you suggest she should have gone?
November 13, 2024 at 5:34 AM
I know it’s nitpicky but gained ground really implies that Trump won a greater following, while that simply isn’t true. The chart should be titled “How democrats lost ground”
November 7, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Any idea on the source there? Would love to read
October 7, 2023 at 7:43 PM