Doing Research Part-Time is Great 2024-11-22T19:01:15.542Z

An Unexpected GPT-3 Decision in a Simple Gamble 2022-09-25T16:46:01.254Z

Risk aversion and GPT-3 2022-09-13T20:50:48.563Z

The Economics of a New Energy Source 2022-05-13T14:08:34.865Z

Do universities have an incentive to ignore data ethics as more small sample bias is brought to light? 2022-04-16T20:32:38.819Z

What recent academic areas of study have a sample size that is 'too small'? 2022-04-16T13:52:56.257Z

Comment by casualphysicsenjoyer (hatta_afiq) on Doing Research Part-Time is Great · 2024-11-22T21:46:44.170Z · LW · GW

Did you email supervisors in the areas you were publishing in? 

No. But even if I did, my one publication that I somehow managed to do on my own was trash. So I wouldn't put much weight on that. 

How often did you email them?

I probably tried to email a new person every couple of weeks. The first person that seriously responded is the person I am working with now!

Why'd it take so long for them to accept free high-skilled labour?

I think taking on part time students is really time consuming. A lot of institutions flat out don't do it. And providing them with resources (like compute time on a HPC in my case) is expensive and bureaucratic. I also included my day job in my CV, so they could've just flat-out not have believed that I'd commit, and be wasting their time. 

Comment by casualphysicsenjoyer (hatta_afiq) on Small Talk is Good, Actually · 2023-05-24T18:50:23.507Z · LW · GW

I love this post. 

Comment by casualphysicsenjoyer (hatta_afiq) on An Unexpected GPT-3 Decision in a Simple Gamble · 2022-09-25T17:57:34.548Z · LW · GW

text-davinci-002, updated with a link to github 

Comment by casualphysicsenjoyer (hatta_afiq) on An Unexpected GPT-3 Decision in a Simple Gamble · 2022-09-25T17:42:30.473Z · LW · GW

text-davinci-002

Comment by casualphysicsenjoyer (hatta_afiq) on The Economics of a New Energy Source · 2022-05-14T13:43:27.590Z · LW · GW

Sorry, I might be missing something here but

• Isn't price of energy typically measured in kW hours. Energy = Power x Time. 
• If a space solar system can output more energy since it stays on for longer, wouldn't this mean that the cost per watt hour would naturally decrease? This would be because the price of a watt hour I imagine would be Energy / price. So, if our launch cost is a fixed cost, then we would find that E / price decreases. 

Comment by casualphysicsenjoyer (hatta_afiq) on Call For Distillers · 2022-04-27T12:10:14.083Z · LW · GW

Should the role of a distiller include spotting mistakes? I assume that you'd only want distillers to get to work once you have some confidence that the original claims are correct. 

Comment by casualphysicsenjoyer (hatta_afiq) on What recent academic areas of study have a sample size that is 'too small'? · 2022-04-16T15:59:27.451Z · LW · GW

Thanks Derek. I'm writing a blog post on results from small samples - may I cite your answer?