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• Causal Inference The Mixtape - 1  Introduction3 savers
• What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?—Stephen Wolfram Writings19 savers
• How to Do Great Work51 savers

highlights — 2

• I named the course Causal Inference and Research Design and taught it for the first time to Baylor master’s students in 2010. At the time, I couldn’t really find an example of the sort of class I was looking for, so I cobbled together a patchwork of ideas from several disciplines and authors, like labor economics, public economics, sociology, political science, epidemiology, and statistics. You name it. My class wasn’t a pure econometrics course; rather, it was an applied empirical class that taught a variety of contemporary research designs, such as difference-in-differences, and it was fille…

  Causal Inference The Mixtape - 1  Introduction

• So … What Is ChatGPT Doing, and Why Does It Work? The basic concept of ChatGPT is at some level rather simple. Start from a huge sample of human-created text from the web, books, etc. Then train a neural net to generate text that’s “like this”. And in particular, make it able to start from a “prompt” and then continue with text that’s “like what it’s been trained with”.

  What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?—Stephen Wolfram Writings