Legal US prediction markets are finally here from Kalshi after a major legal victory kalshi.com/events/polit...
Iâve probably been paying more attention to this case because itâs where my parents live, but this sentence couldnât have come at a better time and I hope every election official is paying attention. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/u...
New in Scientific American w Jenny Allen: Is misinformation *really* a problem? Our take= Exposure to "fake news" is rare, but misinformedness is common- b/c of misleading claims from elites & mainstream news. Solutions must take this into account! www.scientificamerican.com/article/comb...
âFake newsâ-style misinformation is only a fraction of what deceives voters. Fighting misinformation will require holding political elites and mainstream media accountable
One of the more interesting paragraphs from Nate Cohnâs article today: Online pollsters have basically found âone weird trickâ to get reasonable looking results. Gift link: nytimes.com/2024/09/27/u...
In related news, we should be putting billions into vaccines to stop the next pandemic. It'll come, eventually, and we need to be ready. www.statnews.com/2024/09/13/h...
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it's absolutely bonkers that nVidia is going full-bore into hardware-accelerated causal inference, and choosing potential outcomes for the underlying formalism. they're even naming the platform after Don Rubin! DAGstans rekt, econometrics just crushed ML arstechnica.com/information-...
"I'm not sure yet whether I'm going to regret this," says CEO Jensen Huang at Computex 2024.
These two visual introductions to transformer models are amazing. 1) But what is a GPT? Visual intro to transformers www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZo...www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMlx...
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