niplav

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High Status Eschews Quantification of Performance

niplav19 Mar 2023 22:14 UTC

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[Question] What is Going On With CFAR?

niplav28 May 2022 15:21 UTC

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Have Attention Spans Been Declining?

niplav8 Sep 2023 14:11 UTC

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Subscripts for Probabilities

niplav13 Apr 2023 18:32 UTC

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Transfer Learning in Humans

niplav21 Apr 2024 20:49 UTC

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Self-Blinded L-Theanine RCT

niplav31 Oct 2023 15:24 UTC

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Properties of Good Textbooks

niplav7 May 2023 8:38 UTC

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Range and Forecasting Accuracy

niplav27 May 2022 18:47 UTC

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Cryonics Cost-Benefit Analysis

niplav3 Aug 2020 17:30 UTC

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Self-Blinded Caffeine RCT

niplav27 Jun 2023 12:38 UTC

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Please Bet On My Quantified Self Decision Markets

niplav1 Dec 2023 20:07 UTC

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Brain-Computer Interfaces and AI Alignment

niplav28 Aug 2021 19:48 UTC

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Iqisa: A Library For Handling Forecasting Datasets

niplav14 Apr 2023 15:16 UTC

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Turning Some Inconsistent Preferences into Consistent Ones

niplav18 Jul 2022 18:40 UTC

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The Evidence for Question Decomposition is Weak

niplav28 Aug 2023 15:46 UTC

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Precision of Sets of Forecasts

niplav19 Sep 2023 18:19 UTC

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scipy.optimize.curve_fit Is Awesome

niplav7 May 2022 10:57 UTC

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[Question] How Often Does ¬Correlation ⇏ ¬Causation?

niplav2 Apr 2024 17:58 UTC

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[Question] Examples of Low Status Fun

niplav10 Oct 2023 23:19 UTC

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Open & Welcome Thread—Oct 2022

niplav2 Oct 2022 11:04 UTC

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