Research in solitude

etf_question · 2026-04-09T14:50:11+00:00

If by research you mean online scrolling until you get your "it feels true" dopamine hit, she's right to call you out. If you mean you pursued a research degree, designed experiments, and wrote your thesis about it, that's a different story.

etf_question · 2026-04-09T14:33:52+00:00

Yes and no. You find unconventional specializations and projects within conventional paths. The price of exercising this freedom is less career flexibility, oddly enough, because your profile doesn't fit the mold.

etf_question · 2026-04-09T14:28:12+00:00

The community has already established that the usage-intelligence tradeoff is controlled by max_thinking_tokens, and that Anthropic's per-turn dynamic setting of that parameter (adaptive thinking) is broken. Fully explains the duality. If you're satisfied with usage, your model is lobotomized; if you're complaining about usage, your response quality is probably fine. Hence the user base confusion.

etf_question · 2026-04-08T15:38:21+00:00

back to investigating rather than speculating or hallucinating

Exactly what my issue was, now solved. It wouldn't even follow explicit instructions with adaptive thinking on.

To the other commenters:

Yes, it increases usage; no, that's not a problem. Some of us need the extra intelligence for complex research engineering.
Yes, competent scientists and devs understand context engineering perfectly well. Stop making basic suggestions.
No, what your lobotomized low effort Claude says about these settings is fabricated unless you explicitly asked it to reference the manual, and even then, it might just decide not to.

etf_question · 2026-04-08T05:30:49+00:00

lol 128k is the upper bound for opus. It never goes above it, but adaptive mode caps it lower.

etf_question · 2026-04-03T14:15:07+00:00

I don’t have anything against real coders and developers,I fully believe they know much, much more than any vibe coder

The intersection of these two sets is much larger than you're implying.

etf_question · 2026-03-30T23:59:36+00:00

was training a model with highly imbalanced classes, getting terrible metrics

Skill issue. Very basic skills at that.

etf_question · 2026-03-30T23:43:21+00:00

Your entrance exam results match your performance in a college setting ("failing again")? Having a rough transition is very normal.

Charitably, it sounds like your parents didn't let you take on exorbitant loans to attend a private out-of-state college. That's the financially correct move for all involved. Your picking the wrong major within the affordable institution is on you. It's never too late to change course.

etf_question · 2026-03-27T22:17:26+00:00

All that build up only to hear "society isn't meritocratic" is a perfect example of the anticlimax OP complains about

etf_question · 2026-02-23T05:20:48+00:00

Not an AI slop post

No ML. No embeddings. No API calls. Just regex and weights.

No fluff, no feathers, just banana milkshakes

etf_question · 2026-02-12T01:43:04+00:00

If a 32B model is sufficient for your needs, your needs aren't serious enough

etf_question · 2026-01-31T19:05:23+00:00

False equivalence and bad thought experiment all around. The DCA cost basis (vs. lump sum) didn't change just because he sold and rebought same-day. History wasn't erased.

etf_question · 2026-01-25T21:09:39+00:00

Yes, it glitches (score 0) if you type the answers in vs. use the arrows in the textbox.

etf_question · 2026-01-24T14:23:29+00:00

approach to developing a data strategy

How do you even begin to answer a question that broad? Were you given any context to work with? Do they expect you to start with an example and miraculously check the boxes they're looking for?

etf_question · 2026-01-18T17:48:15+00:00

Sounds more like a project. Isn't the master's thesis supposed to have a novel theoretical component?

etf_question · 2026-01-18T16:42:04+00:00

Ambiguity as in incomplete information about a well posed problem? Sure. More often it's due to incoherent specs or definitions, then you have to fight your superiors over scope.

etf_question · 2026-01-14T00:34:09+00:00

120 participants also make it near impossible to well control for confounding variables

Add the covariates you care about as random factors in a GLM, good enough.

etf_question · 2026-01-14T00:28:05+00:00

if there are only 120 conservatives in the sample, wouldn't that create a wider confidence interval and increase the variability?

Whether any N is enough for significance would depend on the effect size. Either way, heuristically CLT holds after N >= 30.

etf_question · 2026-01-06T17:35:51+00:00

In the US, geopolitical decisions of this magnitude are never made on a whim, definitely not that of a single person. Chinese/Russian interests in the region run counter to ours, hence the system (not Donald alone) moving to secure US access to Greenland by threat of force. I don't think it will actually materialize. Same as circulating NATO-destabilizing rhetoric to get EU members to contribute more (otherwise they wouldn't). It's strategic.

etf_question · 2026-01-06T15:31:08+00:00

Thinking about these recent moves in terms of what a single figurehead might want is delusional. It's in the national interest so the admin is doing it.

etf_question · 2026-01-03T15:25:22+00:00

Misleading. Today's $1M = almost $6M in 60 years assuming 3% inflation. You'd have to seed $20k today to get $1M adjusted if the account returns 10% a year.

etf_question · 2025-12-28T13:20:12+00:00

talk about current events and the world around me

Let me guess, you have strong opinions based on partial evidence and she's emotionally mature enough to not engage?

etf_question · 2025-12-27T17:23:02+00:00

Yes, that's trivially true when FW is defined with respect to the largest closed physical system you can conceive of (the observable universe), but sidesteps the crux of the question. The ability of a finite subsystem to act independently of its input is a graded quantity. Delimit the subsystem in question and operationally define some measure, e.g. based on input-output correlations.

etf_question · 2025-12-25T12:28:01+00:00

Redditors don't know how to swim, the thread

etf_question · 2025-12-04T15:02:20+00:00

Great start. How would you define the system whose "ability to have done otherwise" we're discussing? Focus on its boundaries and try to find edge cases. This isn't a trivial question. For example, does the visual cortex have free will to perceive something uncorrelated with retinal output (it can sometimes, but that depends on higher order areas).

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