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Reverse Dependency Checks for Empirical Outputs
When you change an R package, CRAN expects you to run reverse dependency checks: build every package that depends on yours and see what breaks. When you fix a bug in a statistical package, it might be worth running the equivalent check against papers.To r
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Operating a Retrieval-Augmented Classifier
Consider a design: a query gets embedded, retrieval pulls the nearest labeled examples from a vector store, and an LLM assigns a label from a fixed set. Mechanically this is kNN classification with an LLM head: the store is the training set, retrieval fin
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Notes from a fan
A few days ago I was looking at Wirecutter's best-fan guide. The Vornado 630 was $60 on Amazon, $80 on Walmart, and $80 on Vornado's own website. A 33% gap on a fan caught my attention. I wondered how common gaps like this were. So I scraped 74 Wirecutter
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Science: 20 GPs in a single District
One of the quieter successes of post-Independence India is that the gender gap in education has closed. The trajectory is plain in the historical data. In 1951, fewer than three in ten girls were enrolled at the primary level, against six in ten boys; at
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Ceci N'est Pas un Proxy
Chaturvedi, Das, and Mahajan (2024) argue that female reservation in the 2015 Gram Panchayat elections raised household toilet provision more in villages with a higher Muslim share. At low Muslim share the estimated reservation effect is essentially zero.
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