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Erin Braid

@erinbraid

prioritization researcher, master of logic, baby parent

San Francisco, CA Katılım Mayıs 2021
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Erin Braid@erinbraid·
I wrote a little history of washing dishes, from scouring pewter with horsetail to the Chicago World's Fair to modern environmental concerns. You can read it at Works in Progress! I'm also happy to report that the topic was thoroughly baby-approved. worksinprogress.co/issue/inventin…
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Erin Braid@erinbraid·
@Kirsten3531 ...figuring out how to exploit unsupervised/"self-supervised" learning, which you can then point at unlabeled data, e.g. all the text in the world.
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Kirsten@Kirsten3531·
my husband and I are watching a youtube video about how neural nets learn (movie night, cute) and some ordinary least squares-ass shit pops up on the screen?? why are there econometrics in my ai movie???? (I do not understand regressions or ai)
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Erin Braid@erinbraid·
@wirmgurl @Romy_Holland Infamously, my little brother once said that the sun was a boy because it didn't have any hair clips
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Romy@Romy_Holland·
everyone who sees my baby defaults to thinking he’s a girl. i don’t know if babies are just so cute they all read as feminine (like cats) or if my baby is actually just really pretty.
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🍃@cardamomkiss·
The baby helps put away clean silverware from the dishwasher now but he sticks every third or so piece of cutlery in his mouth before putting it in the organizer. Quality assurance
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Erin Braid@erinbraid·
If educational materials tend not to work for you, *and you can articulate why*, I think it's worth giving an LLM a shot at it.
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Erin Braid@erinbraid·
I just want to take "Intro to [X] for Mathematicians," though of course it's obvious that there's not enough demand for that class to exist. But now some facsimile does exist!
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Erin Braid@erinbraid·
I must reluctantly admit that I've found the killer app for LLMs for me personally, and it's simply this: "Please give me an overview of [technical topic]. I have a pure math background, and you can assume that I'm very comfortable with abstraction and analytical thinking."
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Erin Braid@erinbraid·
It still seems wrong to me that you ""should"" apply to jobs that you don't meet the requirements for. On the other hand, I just made up a guy who believes that you have to have all the ingredients in order to cook a recipe, and boy is that guy wrong...
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Erin Braid@erinbraid·
@simonsarris @drethelin I got out a screwdriver while replacing a battery and my 13mo immediately identified it as a species of "rah-rah" ("round and round") and became obsessed. I had to make him a pretend screwing station (bolts in holes in a cardboard box)
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Simon Sarris@simonsarris·
My 2yo figured out how to use a screwdriver when I didn't want him to! And there are people that never used one because its "manual labor"? No chances ever to use one? Confusing.
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Simon Sarris@simonsarris·
This just sounds so impossible but I've heard 2 anecdotes from teachers that suggest the same thing. Kids who never ever picked up a drill or a screwdriver before graduating high school.
Andrew A.Abbott@realAAAbbott

First thing we skills test for is "can you run a cordless drill". 98% of guys under 35 in fact cannot. They can't run a cordless drill properly, safely. You aren't going to learn to be a plumber or electrician in 2 years because you don't even know enough to change a tire.

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Erin Braid@erinbraid·
@brennanoonan @HormoneHangover My little brother's favorite book as a toddler was a pocket-sized French-English dictionary. He claimed it was called "My Father's Story" (probably based on My Father's Dragon, which was an actual family favorite)
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brenna ♈@brennanoonan·
@HormoneHangover my baby's favorite book is the PSA book about lead poisoning we got for free from his pediatrician lol
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Grace 🦎🩵🐣🐈‍⬛🌃@HormoneHangover·
Another one of those parenting ideas that didn’t survive parenthood I had was that my children would love poring over gorgeous intricate watercolor illustration fairytale storybooks. In fact, the main thing they care about is if there’s a big picture of a truck
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Erin Braid@erinbraid·
@grep_cat_ @drethelin Yeah you don't even find out the genre (svefg pbagnpg) until like a third of the way through the 1000-page book, if that doesn't sound charming I'd recommend giving up tbh
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James@grep_cat_·
@drethelin I started this book but so far nothing has happened and I am confused
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Erin Braid@erinbraid·
@salonium There are some interesting one-off examples of controlled trials from before Lind btw!
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Saloni@salonium·
New post! It may seem ambitious to ask for individual patient data from clinical trials to be shared, anonymized, for other researchers. But clinical trials have already undergone a series of transformations that once seemed equally bold: clinicaltrialsabundance.blog/p/clinical-tri…
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Erin Braid@erinbraid·
Devastating
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Erin Braid@erinbraid·
Fell down a rabbithole of increasingly obscure "create content/evals for AI" job postings. If you can write difficult questions about archives, or you do advanced math in Tamil, or you're a formally trained compuational astrologer, the AIs want you! But this is the best one:
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Erin Braid@erinbraid·
@Chesedgirl @sonyasupposedly @SoniaBaschez @tallsnail I just have the one, and I never got into timing everything! I never even learned what exactly a "wake window" is supposed to be tbh. At first it's just all over the place, then at some point you're like, oh, the baby takes the same number of naps at similar times most days! Nice
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Sonia Baschez@SoniaBaschez·
Society focuses too much on the first baby experience and we’d better serve all moms by speaking to the second baby experience: you can!! do things and go out, you don’t have to be as uptight and precious about their schedules, their environment, or how “clean” everything is
lia@tallsnail

first baby at 3 weeks: precisely timed feeds in a dark quiet room, specific pillow and foot stool absolutely necessary second baby at 3 weeks: nursing discreetly in a wrap while i follow my toddler around test-driving bikes at the sporting goods store, coffee in hand

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