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No matter what you’re doing, from building a civilization on Mars to getting a summer internship, you will have to ask people for help. Yet, most people get this crucial skill wrong. They put themselves at the front of their request, when they should be putting the other person there. But isn’t getting help just charisma and luck? No, asking for help is a skill , not an attribute you…
A popular view of the economics profession, as one with oscillating, or perhaps no consensus, is summarized by Harry Truman’s supposed quip that he wanted a one handed economist, because they kept saying “on one hand …but on the other…”. On the other hand, other critics say that academic and professional economists have too much consensus with Paul Romer alleging that economics has a “persistent…
Does when you review your Anki cards matter? The answer is yes, and over a sustained period of time the timing of when you review your spaced repetition material probably affects the strength of your memory in a large and sustained manner. But while academic research on spaced repetition has accumulated a compelling body of evidence, there is another burgeoning line of inquiry which suggests that…
I went to my first ML conference the last few days and I realised there is a lot of stuff I didn’t know about how to attend a large ML conference. So here is a list of information that is useful to you, a first time ML conference attendee. Before we start, let’s explain the three parts of a ML conference Posters: this is where most papers of the conference come. When a paper gets…
Nobody has lived through a technological change that in theory at least promises to take all of our jobs, change our existence as the apex species on the planet and potentially kill us. I’m not an expert on AI, and I’m far from an expert on labour markets. But I am often reminded of the economist Alain Enthoven, who remarked to an Air Force general challenging his analysis of nuclear war that…
It was only after the release of the Deepseek R1 model that I realised that RL was our best shot to AGI, and possibly even super intelligence To summarize the past (2019 to 2024): When you perform regular language model pre-training, what you’re doing is making the model predict the next token over a very very large corpus of data. In theory the idea is that the language model not only…
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Milton is a tool that makes it extremely easy to find economic data, analyse it, and present it the way you want.
So the idea here is that you can just do something like… Keep writing in one long page, prepending as you go. If you’d like this to be separate pages (e.g. Tom’s Micro), we could do that too, and switch the TIL to be one long page? idk, this one is up to you.
How do we fix air pollution in India?
List of books/blogs.
This is a list of my current projects, previous work, and other accomplishments. Education I am studying Computer Science at the National University of Singapore, graduating in 2027. I’m also a member of the NUS College program which is a successor to the University Scholars Program. Milton (In progress) Repo link . AI agent for macroeconomic research. The AI agent exhibits the following…