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7 bookmarks tagged “experiment”

Generative A.I. Made All My Decisions for a Week. Here's What Happened. - The New York Times

nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/01/technology/generative-ai-decisions-experiment.html
There are also outsiders seeking to manipulate the systems’ answers; the search optimization specialists who developed sneaky techniques to appear at the top of Google’s rankings now want to influence what chatbots say. And research shows it’s possible.

A/B testing mistakes I learned the hard way

newsletter.posthog.com/p/ab-testing-mistakes-i-learned-the

Reporting bias makes homeopathy trials look like homeopathy works | Ars Technica

arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/reporting-bias-makes-homeopathy-trials-look-like-they-work/
When clinical trials are registered in advance, homeopathy doesn't seem to work.

Hygiene Theater Is Still a Huge Waste of Time - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/hygiene-theater-still-waste/617939/
Too many people imagine the fight against COVID-19 as a land war to be waged with sudsy hand-to-hand combat against grimy surfaces.

Doorbells, Danger, and Dead Batteries: The Myth of Objectivity

uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2017/01/doorbells-danger-and-dead-batteries-user-research-war-stories.php

Lojban

mw.lojban.org/papri/Lojban
Lojban (pronounced [ˈloʒban]) is an experiment in human language – a constructed language based on formal logic.

GLXY

kaeru.neritic.net/projects/short-experiments/glxy/