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New research from the University of Michigan revealed LLMs demonstrate higher performance when prompted to act as gender-neutral or male rather than female. The findings highlight the importance of addressing biases that can creep into machine learning models' training data.

@alandownie Tanked career to have a baby, we have more joy and less time. Thinking of getting out of tech into behavioural science.

@alandownie Glad you are getting through a stormy patch, you were extremely helpful to me and I will always appreciate it. You are a good person dealt a bad year, those two things are separate from eachother.

People with autism less likely to succumb to bystander effect, research finds Study points to the benefits of having neurodivergent people in the workplace A well-established psychological theory states that most of us are less likely to intervene in a bad situation if other people are present, and this 'bystander effect' also applies to workplace settings. However, new research shows that people with autism are less likely to be affected by this social contagion than neurotypical people. They are less likely to stay silent in the face of gross misconduct or even just everyday mistakes, pointing to the positive aspects of autism and how organizations can benefit from hiring more neurodivergent people, findings reveal. sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/…

5/ It's pretty obvious now that AI will supercharge product leverage. A single person or a small team can now create much better content and code with AI in one tenth the time. Yet, most people are still chasing the other forms of leverage.

The entire data science field is about to be revolutionized. ChatGPT, AutoGPT, and GPT-4 is old news. The Code Interpreter plugin is the next biggest thing. Here are 10 insane examples that prove it:

@amyjccuddy When I moved back to country Victoria, Australia I found no one asked me. Everyone assumes because I am a mother that I don’t work. Most frequent question I get is “do you think it’ll rain” or something child related. I actually miss it.

@dave__whiteside 🙌 still waiting for my 4.5yr old to sleep through the night so we take shifts. My partner couldn’t get back to sleep if he did the early morning shift so he did the late night shift. I drink lots of water and drink chai. Both of us don’t drink coffee.

A question for my fellow non-coffee drinkers who are also parents: How did you tackle the lack of sleep in the first few weeks of parenting? Did you change anything up to get some extra boosts of energy in the early days? Our due date is today and I’m taking copious notes.

@rbfasho @ycombinator So no parents or carers came?

We ran a "Phone Check" at a @ycombinator event last night for ~150 founders in San Francisco. Here's how it went: tinyurl.com/yd5zbjs8

@NWischoff You should look at Australia, apparently wanting a valuation of any kind is too grandiose for a non tech female founder.

Haven't seen a seed deal with a term sheet raising less than 7M in almost three weeks

@bigyahu Tech-phillic customer, are you anti her industry or her? She built a product, managed devs, onboarded partners & advisors. I’m still confused by the point of taking down someone with ambition. Feels like a car dealer trying to get a lower valuation during a trade-in walk around.

@SairEB You mean Instant? I didn’t get pitched so all I know is what I read in the press, but seems like they have everything that she lacks: mad dev skills, rapid customer and rev growth at low cost, selling to a customer which is tech-philic and unregulated unlike health.

Met a non-tech founder of an AU startup. Used an offshore team to build a prototype of an app to help hospitals. She seems top-notch, has made big progress on getting research grants, hospital trial partners and an impressive advisory board…

@ElaineStead Get CFA to assess the risk. I’d rather a house standing after a bushfire than pine trees.

@sophwith_ Creates community when presenting on relatable social topics like neurodiversity. I don’t like the concept of talking with everyone listening without a live feedback loop. Chat provides an outlet for others to share experiences & insight without derailing the flow of a talk.

Zoom chat is so rogue. IRL no one is throwing comments out loud as a person presents. I use it a lot but having the realisation it’s poss because I have poor turn taking in conversations and should just listen more. Thoughts on Zoom chat?

@emilyscasey Continued risk aversion with the usual subconscious discriminatory undertones.

What do people think the future of venture in Aus looks like? Particularly the next 10 years? Obviously its going to be very different - but curious for peoples takes

Maybe the reason it’s hard to make friends as an adult is because we’ve created a culture where adults have no places to consistently see the same people. No walkable cities. No community gatherings. No shared activities. Repeated exposure breeds friendships.

@HowtoADHD I look forward to the many updates and skipped versions. Version 12 followed by 14 and none of us will notice because attention to detail…..🤷🏼‍♀️

I apologize in advance for all the things I’m gonna forget to include in my book about ADHD. …I have ADHD.

@emilyscasey I have a memory of a fish so I used to do this all the time at work when I would look at my confluence pages and find a super organised document or diagram that I needed. My present self would openly appreciate my organised past self.

Ever look at past things you've done and be like "Dammann, past me did that?! Hot damn, yasss you queen. Present me doesn't even know what that means"

@NWischoff We have set our son up but we worked 10-12hrs/day & occasional weekends for 4-5 years at a company with great share value until we both burnt out. We could have achieved generational wealth if we stayed but modest financial independence & living life was the right choice for us.

Name someone that built generational wealth only working 8 hours/day. I'll wait.

@lizgiorgi Both male and female superiors who f***ked me over are now at Google in very cushy jobs. I started my own tech start up to help identify these people through communication analytics. They may not pay but I will help others avoid it happening to them.

Good luck to the women who fuck over other women. One day, you eventually pay for that shit.