Dan Goldstein

The original post above is missing a question mark. At least you know it wasn't AI generated!

The original post above is missing a question mark. At least you know it wasn't AI generated!

We're open to PhD students of any age :)

There's a meme with kids about "six seven"

Would you kindly repost? Thanks!

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Happy Friday to all who celebrate

Version 2 that uses a plug in electric drill instead of batteries (this is going to take hours)

A classmate of my 11-year-old daughter said he'd give her a pack of Sour Patch Kids if she could get his pedometer to 67,000. Enter the reciprocating saw.

The original script

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cc @khoavuumn.bsky.social

dggoldst on Sora R (at the river Eure): We are statisticians. We come to take over statistical computing. STATA corp: What CEO has sent you? R: We have no master, we are all equal. -Dudo de Sancto Quintino, late 10...

In 2020, my friend @jasndoc.bsky.social wrote a fictional dialog between R and STATA. In 2023 I said in a few years AI could make it into a stunning movie with spoken parts. It's here.

sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_692d0b8c...

Tom Stoppard always made me think. This quote above all.

The penalties employed so far include getting clobbered by a pillow or having a balloon explode in your general vicinity

It's the holidays and our 11-year-old is making her little cousins play the prisoners' dilemma

Just being modest?

Miley prefers to face backwards when riding in a vehicle's hot tub

Miley Cyrus would like a word

electoral districts should be determined by an algorithm with proven guarantees and it is cruel not to let the theoretical computer scientists design it because they have been waiting their whole lives for an opportunity like this

There's a joke in Germany that Bielefeld doesn't exist. I have evidence that it may not be a joke after all.

There are some very nice Japanese woodworking videos on YouTube that are all Makita.

I tried to avoid it but you can only do so much. The plan was to do all Milwaukee. But companies do loss leader promotions (to lock you into their battery universes) so I could get the Ryobi and DeWalt batteries for next to nothing with the tools.

Oh yes, the battery universe.

I'm on three battery universes. Not as bad as it sounds. I've got three dewalt tools and two batteries. To Ryobi tools and two batteries. About 9 Milwaukee tools and five batteries.

I don't usually fly Delta but when I do I wonder if it's called that because the flight is the delta between you and your destination

The Delta airlines boarding song is Despacito, which literally means slowly and is not how you want people to board a plane

But there are still many very legit very ethical researchers there

So cool to see a bunch of present and past Microsoft Research NYC researchers' work in this keynote address

Experimental conditions: - No facilitation - Human facilitation - LLM facilitation

Human and LLM facilitators receive the same instructions 1. Guiding message "People may have different information about what is being discussed in this meeting, so encourage everyone to share all of the relevant information they have.' 2. Information about the facilitator role "As a facilitator for this meeting, your specific role is help the group make a decision by, first, making sure that everyone is heard from and shares what they know and, second, acting as a scoreboard and keeping track of pros and cons.*

Forecasted and actual decisions were similar across conditions.

See Figure 7 from the preprint (URL/DOI in the post). Survey question: "You completed this task with a [human, Al, none] facilitator. If you were to repeat this task, which would you prefer?" "Users seem to prefer what they know, whatever it may be" "Experiencing LLM facilitation seems to yield interest in both facilitators, in a way that human facilitation doesn't."

Before #MSFT offered "Facilitator" in Teams meetings, @dggoldst.bsky.social et al. developed something similar.

People preferred their #statusQuo, but #AI facilitation
- made people more open to both human and #LLM facilitation.
- didn't seem to impact decisions

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Every hotel lamp should have three switches. The switch locations should be determined by pretests conducted in dark rooms. Each switch should reverse the light's state, independent of the other two switch positions.

Well that's nice that you've got machine learning. We've got DOUBLE machine learning.