Using Points to Rate Different Kinds of Evidence
There’s a lot of discussion on the EA Forum and LessWrong about epistemics, evidence, and updating. I don’t know of many attempts at formalizing our thinking here into concrete tables or equations. Here is one (very rough and simplistic) attempt. I’d be excited to see much better
Squiggle 0.8.4
Private Models and UI improvements
Announcing Squiggle Hub
A free new platform for writing and sharing Squiggle code
Squiggle 0.8
A much better editor and viewer, function annotations, and lots more
Squiggle: Technical Overview (2020)
This post was originally published on Nov 2020, on LessWrong. We’re moving this document here, to centralize our writing in one place. This piece is meant to be read after Squiggle: An Overview . It includes technical information I thought best separated out for readers familiar with coding. As such,
Squiggle Overview (2020)
This post was originally published on Nov 2020, on LessWrong. We’re moving this document here, to centralize our writing in one place. I’ve spent a fair bit of time over the last several years iterating on a text-based probability distribution editor (the 5 to 10 input editor in
The Squiggly language (Short Presentation, 2020)
A short presentation from 2020 about a very early version of Squiggle
Downsides of Small Organizations in EA
Recently I partipated in the EA Strategy Fortnight, with this post on the EA Forum. There are some good comment threads there I suggest checking out. Note: Our main work recently has been on making a “Squiggle Hub” that we intend to announce in the next few weeks, so there’
Ozzie, on the Mutual Understanding Podcast
Hear me ramble on coordination, government, and estimation systems
Relative Value Functions: A Flexible New Format for Value Estimation
We just published a blog post outlining the details of relative value functions. This was touched on in the presentation I sent out yesterday. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/EFEwBvuDrTLDndqCt/relative-value-functions-a-flexible-new-format-for-value The post has several code sections and tables, so I won’t attempt to copy that over here. Instead,
Presentation: Estimating Everything Everywhere Always
An overview of our plan at QURI
Upcoming QURI Events
An online presentation this Thursday, and a Berkeley meetup next Tuesday