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How to Do Research. v1
Pablo Repetto3y10

I'm glad you like it!

Fixed the footnotes. They were there at the end, but unlinked. Some mixup when switching between LW's Markdown and Docs-style editor, most likely.

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Could Patent-Trolling delay AI timelines?
Pablo Repetto3y10

I see... so trolling by patenting something akin to convolutional neural networks wouldn't work because you can't tell what's powering a service unless the company building it tells you.

Maybe something on the lines of "service that does automatic text translation" or "car that drives itself" (obviously not these, since a patent with so much prior art would never get granted) would be a thing that you could fight over?

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Summary: "How to Read Books and Write Essays" by OSP's Blue
Pablo Repetto3y10

You're welcome! I'd like hearing a bit about how it helped, if you are ok with sharing.

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How To Write Quickly While Maintaining Epistemic Rigor
Pablo Repetto3y30

Hi! I wrote a summary with some of my thoughts in this post as part of an ongoing effort to stop sucking at researching stuff. This article was a big help, thank you!

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Summary: "Internet Search tips" by Gwern Branwen
Pablo Repetto3y60

I'm glad you enjoyed it! I agree that more should be done. Just listing the specific search advice on the new table of contents would help a lot.

I'm gonna do the work, I promise. I'm just working up the nerve. Saying, in effect, "this experienced professional should have done his work better, let me show you how" is scary as balls.

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Duels & D.Sci March 2022: Evaluation and Ruleset
Pablo Repetto3y40

First of all: thank you for setting up the problem, I had lots of fun!

This one reminded me a lot of D&D.Sci 1, in that the main difficulty I encountered was the curse of dimensionality. The space had lots of dimensions so I was data-starved when considering complex hypotheses (performance of individual decks, for instance). Contrast with Voyages of the Grey Swan, where the main difficulty is that broad chunks of the data are explicitly censored.

I also noticed that I'm getting less out of active competitions than I was from the archived posts. I'm so concerned with trying to win that I don't write about and share my process, which I believe is a big mistake. Carefully composed posts have helped me get my ideas in order, and I think they were far more interesting to observers. So I'll step back from active competitions for a bit. I'll probably do the research summaries I promised, "Monster Carcass Auction", "Earwax" (maybe?), then come back to active competitions.

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Becoming a Staff Engineer
Pablo Repetto3y10

Thank you for doing the work of correcting this usage; precision in language matters.

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Duels & D.Sci March 2022: It's time for D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-data!
Pablo Repetto3y20

I made some progress (right in the nick of time) by...

Massaging the data into a table of every deck we've seen, and whether the deck won its match or lost it (the code is long and boring, so I'm skipping it here), then building the following machinery to quickly analyze restricted subsets of deck-space.

q = "1 <= dragon <= 6 and 1 <= lotus <= 6"
display(decks.query(q).corr()["win"].drop("win").sort_values(ascending=False).plot.bar())
decks.query(q)["win"].agg(["mean", "sum", "count"])

q is used to filter us down to decks that obey the constraint. We then check the correlation of each card to winrate. Finally, we show how many decks were kept, and what the winrate actually is.

q can be pretty complicated, with expressiveness limits defined by pd.DataFrame.query. A few things that work:

  • (angel + lotus) == 0
  • 1 <= dragon and 1 <= lotus and 4 <= (dragon + lotus)
  • 1 <= dragon and lotus == 0
  • (pirate-1) <= sword <= (pirate+1)

My deck submission (PvE and PvP) is:

4 angels 3 lotuses 3 pirates 2 sword

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MIRI announces new "Death With Dignity" strategy
Pablo Repetto3y10

See response to Ben Pace for counterpoints.

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1Could Patent-Trolling delay AI timelines?
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5Notes from a conversation with Ing. Agr. Adriana Balzarini
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8Summary: "How to Read Books and Write Essays" by OSP's Blue
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9Summary: "How to Do Research" by OSP's Red
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4Summary: "How to Write Quickly..." by John Wentworth
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12Summary: "Internet Search tips" by Gwern Branwen
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9Hallelujah
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5Summary: "How to read a book" by Mortimer Adler
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7Summary: "How to write a thesis" by Umberto Eco
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