Temperature vs thinking level for LLM products
If using ChatGPT or an API in 2023, you might have followed the advice “turn the temperature down” when you wanted a more serious answer. That is going out of date. The following is a collaboration between me and Grok to lay this out simply: What temperature was Imagine the model is always choosing…
College Major & Income Sources
Economists make the most lifetime income if we count salary and other compensation alone. But if we look at the older cohorts, economics majors also earn more passive income. You’d think that Finance majors would earn more from investments.
Ranking State Economies On a Governor Time Scale
Governors serve for 4 years in most US states. You can find many rankings of state economies out there, but they tend not to measure how states have done over the last 4 years- instead they either use measurements based on levels (things like mean income which were mostly determined by events before the current…
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Economist Writing Every Day 