How Should We Critique Research?
Ordinary Incompetence
The Replication Crisis: Flaws in Mainstream Science
On Bloom’s two sigma problem: A systematic review of the effectiveness of mastery learning, tutoring, and direct instruction
Your Strength As a Rationalist
Landau’s Theoretical Minimum, Landau’s Seminar, ITEP in the Beginning of the 1950’s
‘Fermi problems’ directory
How to Measure Anything
My Market Board Game
Prediction Markets
List of Probability Calibration Exercises
[Wikipedia guessing game proposal]
My Favorite Liar
‘Two truths and a lie’ as a class-participation activity
ImageNet: A Large-Scale Hierarchical Image Database
gpt-3-nonfiction#arxiv-paper
[Transclude the forward-link's
context]
CM3: A Causal Masked Multimodal Model of the Internet
Generating Scientific Claims for Zero-Shot Scientific Fact Checking
Better Language Models and Their Implications
Why So Few Matt Levines?
https://www.roft.io/
RoFT: A Tool for Evaluating Human Detection of Machine-Generated Text
On (Not) Reading Papers
Never Trust A Number
Comparing scientific abstracts generated by ChatGPT to original abstracts using an artificial intelligence output detector, plagiarism detector, and blinded human reviewers
https://x.com/ccanonne_/status/1639848150495301633
Don’t Want Students to Rely on ChatGPT? Have Them Use It: It’s easy to forget how little students and educators understand generative AI’s flaws. Once they actually try it out, they’ll see that it can’t replace them
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/puv8fRDCH9jx5yhbX/johnswentworth-s-shortform?commentId=wK5L54LB9KGy4LQKR
Inhaling the spore: Field trip to a museum of natural (un)history
The Death of the Chicago Style Seminar
A Novel Classroom Exercise for Teaching the Philosophy of Science
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38744828
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/12/25/in-judo-before-you-learn-the-cool-moves-you-first-have-to-learn-how-to-fall-maybe-we-should-be-training-researchers-the-same-way-first-learn-how-things-can-go-wrong-and-only-when-you-get-that-le/#comment-2299290
https://wiki.improbableisland.com/doku.php?id=start#what_goes_in_the_wiki
https://www.improbableisland.com/
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/ImprobableIsland
PL-detective: A system for teaching programming language concepts
Toward a History Based Doctrine for Wargaming
NewsGuesser: Using Curiosity to Reduce Selective Exposure
Crystal Ball Trading Challenge
Predicting History
Guess ICLR Reviews
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31443826
Fake Journal Club Proposal
https://x.com/yacineMTB/status/1610303012219621379