gdeejay.bsky.social
Applied economist working in international development policy
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Mostly memes.
Sometimes post about #publicpolicy, research, data science, #PFM and #Rstats
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I meant to reply and note that this is a snack in the Pacific.
Peanuts are much nicer raw. They taste a little sweet and a nice texture.
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Yeah, I work a lot with PACs in my job and having a strong PAC makes a huge difference. A good PAC is constantly looking for opportunities to point out what the Government is doing wrong.
They also keep me on my toes as an economist as they're deeply interested in the detail 👌🏼
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Oh! Also, the PAC is responsible for overseeing the budget on behalf of the parliament and usually publishes reports on their findings.
If they can't come to an agreement others can publish a dissenting view, which is a boring version of ragging on each other in the group chat 😂
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I mean, I'm being a tad simplistic about it and it varies across countries. But, the basic idea of the Westminster style PAC is to use political competition as a force for better outcomes.
This is one of the reasons the chair *should* be from the opposition.
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A regular reminder that if you want to support Ukrainian air defense to protect people from being killed by a kamikaze drones in their sleep you can donate here: savelife.in.ua/second-front...
#UAView
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Yeah, no doubt!
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This is also a sample size of one, so you know, probably isn't externally valid.
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They hypothesized this is because the parliament is a well-established 'status-quo' democratic institution, which better reflects the conservative view of politics and policy.
(FYI this is not the US 😬)
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Claude is the best, but I've stopped using it after the rate limits became frustrating, despite having a pro subscription.
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I haven't read the article (which is bad form on my part), but other studies I've seen like this find that the success rate depends on the task.
So, I'd guess there are some tasks in my job AI would have a very high success rate for.
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If you haven't worked in #pfm you'd likely be surprised how much time is spent manually getting data from pdf files.
#LLMs save a boatload of time when doing this.
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These are all going to make a great 'plumbeR' package.
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I'm told more plumbing functionality is already included on the #tidyverse rollout.
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I was being facetious, but I clearly missed that.
Interesting!
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Source:
www.usgs.gov/faqs/yellows...
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Probably by the same guy too.
Rude.
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And: "...One study suggests that a single LLM query requires 2.9 watt-hours of electricity, compared with 0.3 watt-hours for
a regular internet search..."
So, 10 searches are as energy intensive as 1 LLM call.
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Here's the TLDR of the issue I have with most discussions of AI's environmental impact:
(from: wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/ha...)
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I also haven't seen much consideration of the marginal environmental impacts of a task.
This study attempts a more holistic assessment and finds LLMs have a lower environmental impact for some tasks:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Aka "AI bad for the environment" is too simplistic a take.
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I find LLMs extremely useful, but I mainly use them for tasks that are likely to save me a good amount of time.
I'm also unsure about the environmental impact claims that are frequently cited as the estimates I saw were for data centers not exclusive to AI (e.g. for cloud storage).
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These scenarios or the generation of this meme?
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It's like watching a video game where somebody skips the cutscenes.
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Yeah, that sounds about right.
I think it's based on a popular comic series.
And my nephew is 12-16 so he fits the age demographic.
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I looked it up and it appears the ads are references to sources:
answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...
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I'm pretty sure Copilot already incorporates targeted advertising in replies(?).
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I should have mentioned this is talking about LLMs.
I'm still pretending there's an edit window for posts 😔.
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"...According to philosopher Harry Frankfurt, a liar knows the truth and is trying to lead us in the opposite direction.
A bullshitter either doesn't know the truth, or doesn't care. They are just trying to be persuasive..."