2025-05-26
'They're very determined, suddenly, to see your game fail': Former Dragon Age writer calls out 'anti-fans' who bet on games failing before launch
David Gaider criticized the way gamers have come to celebrate certain games' failures.
A Roblox farming game made by a teenager 'in like three days' had 8.9 million players online at the same time—Steam peaked at 11.5 million across all games on the same day
Grow a Garden's popularity on TikTok and YouTube suggests it's not bots.
How Canada Can Get to ‘Yes’ on the F-35 Fighter
Key Points – Canada can proceed with its F-35 fighter jet acquisition, but only if Prime Minister Mark Carney secures crucial terms from the US Trump administration to ensure greater...
Why the US Army Passed on the M1A2 SEPV4 ‘Super Tank’
Key Points – The US Army cancelled the M1A2 Abrams SEPv4 upgrade due to excessive weight growth, which compromised mobility and survivability, and concerns highlighted by recent conflicts about the...
Warhammer 40,000 games Darktide and Rogue Trader enjoyed a sales bump due to the popularity of Space Marine 2
A rising warptide lifts all voidcraft.
How ChatGPT Helped Code a Copula Model Without Human Input
This study explores how ChatGPT autonomously generated, optimized, and parallelized copula model code in Python and R, highlighting AI's evolving role in coding.
What Works (and Doesn’t) When Coding with ChatGPT
Pair programming with ChatGPT offers speed, flexibility, and learning benefits. However, it struggles with uncommon tasks, reasoning errors, and lacks memory. Verification by humans is essential.
Debugging Copulas and Speeding Up Simulations with AI
This excerpt explores how ChatGPT assists with debugging and porting code across R, Python, and MATLAB, using a Clayton copula example. It shows how precise prompt engineering can resolve errors...
When AI Gets It Wrong—and Then Gets It Right
ChatGPT initially misapplies copula sampling, but after being guided with the proper theory, it corrects its code and demonstrates a strong ability to learn and assist in statistical modeling.
ChatGPT, Symbolic Math, and the Struggle for Accuracy
While ChatGPT struggles to deduce the correct Clayton copula density formula—highlighting its reasoning limits—it excels once the correct expression is provided. Using short, natural prompts, it outputs clean code in...
Testing ChatGPT as a Pair Programming Partner
This section simulates pair programming with ChatGPT, where the human plays navigator and the AI writes code for statistical modeling. Starting with simple tasks, the complexity increases, exposing both ChatGPT’s...
Exploring AI Memory, Limitations, and Workarounds in Practice
This section outlines a method to test ChatGPT’s ability to solve technical coding tasks via natural language prompts, simulating real client-engineer workflows. It details the communication strategy, context window limitations,...
Using AI to Build a Monte Carlo Simulation
This study shows how ChatGPT, through prompt engineering and expert supervision, can generate complete Monte Carlo simulation code for copula models in R, Python, and MATLAB—demonstrating the feasibility and limitations...
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How I'm telling my friends about AI Safety
Published on May 25, 2025 10:43 PM GMTOne of the comments on the new book post asked how to tell normie friends about AI safety. I don't have any special...
2025-05-25
Good Writing
Published on May 25, 2025 9:52 PM GMTI thought this was an interesting post. It's central claim[1] is that writing that sounds good is more likely to be right. In...
Teenagers Are Quietly Using AI Chatbots As Therapists (The Results Surprised Me)
What happens when desperate teens bypass human therapists for artificial ones?Continue reading on Ideas With Wings »
The summer movie challenge
Here's a little challenge I'd like to pose: this summer, watch 2 movies you skipped previously.Pretty simple, right? Yes, but here's the tricky part.The first movie should be one you...
I have again a coding block with @postreads.bsky.social - I start to have some ideas on how to move
I have again a coding block with @postreads.bsky.social - I start to have some ideas on how to move forward but that requires refactoring. But in the mean time I've...
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