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Daniel Rock @danielrock.bsky.social · 5d

I still teach from this book. It rules.

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Schmidt Sciences @schmidtsciences.bsky.social · Sep 8

How will AI reshape jobs—not just replace them?

Daniel Rock, 2023 AI2050 Early Career Fellow at Wharton, studies how AI transforms individual tasks within jobs and is building a model to track those shifts.

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Community Perspective - Daniel Rock - AI2050

Rock asks how, and how much, AI technology will impact the many tasks that comprise a given job — each one may be affected to different extents, changing a job in more nuanced ways than completely…

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Daniel Rock @danielrock.bsky.social · Aug 29

that's interesting I didn't realize you could still get shingles if you had an attenuated vaccine.

I had chickenpox and then shingles a couple years ago. worst physical pain I've ever had.

Daniel Rock @danielrock.bsky.social · Aug 5

“They’re eating… the pets”

Sky News @news.sky.com · Aug 4

Denmark zoo asks people to donate unwanted pets as food for its predators

A zoo in Denmark is asking for unwanted pets to be donated - not for further care but as food for its predators.

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Daniel Rock @danielrock.bsky.social · Jul 7

gonna drop this platform for a bit. take care everyone.

Daniel Rock @danielrock.bsky.social · Jul 2

tbh there's no "best" AI. I think using cursor for scripting with claude code and gemini as terminal options works well right now.

I write spec docs with sonnet 3.7, architectures with gemini, and code with a combo of models. models have different strong suits.

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Daniel Rock @danielrock.bsky.social · Jun 29

Are you at all concerned about an uprising

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Daniel Rock @danielrock.bsky.social · Jun 27

Feel like there are a lot of folks on Bluesky who need to read this paper.

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Jun 26

With rent control in the news, it’s a good moment to recall the research of @rebeccadiamond.bsky.social and co-authors.

They show that strict rent control in San Francisco reduced the availability of rental housing, eventually *raising* rental costs.
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Daniel Rock @danielrock.bsky.social · Jun 23

Common AI failure mode is to ask it for what you want in the end. One day that’ll be doable generally… only sometimes it works now.

For now ask for code that generates what you want (where applicable).

This is true for training ML models too… learn the DGP then transfer to other target/outcome.

Andy Bruce (Reuters) @bruceandy.bsky.social · Jun 23

Point is...
1. Don't trust AI to run even the most basic statistical things (yes, yes I knew that already, but then you get told you must use this stuff, and then...).

2. Don't rush to post things to social media, it creates dumb and embarrassing situations like this one.

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Daniel Rock @danielrock.bsky.social · Jun 23

It was always a better platform for building.

One thing I love now is being able to implement papers on my own at low cost.

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Daniel Rock @danielrock.bsky.social · Jun 17

Yo you’re leading our scrum later right

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Daniel Rock @danielrock.bsky.social · Jun 7

Yellen would’ve kicked his ass, and everyone would’ve watched.

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Yair Rosenberg @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social · Jun 1

This is a common phenomenon that's not unique to this site. As a reporter, I post things about antisemitism in America as part of my job. The posts do not mention Israel. I will nonetheless get many reflexive replies saying "anti-Zionism is not antisemitism." These people are telling on themselves.

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · Jun 1

This is a post from a Jewish politician condemning rising antisemitism in the US, saying nothing about anti-Zionism or Israel. And yet the replies are entirely full of people preemptively jumping in to say, “criticizing Israel is not antisemitism! Being anti-Zionist is not antisemitic!”

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · May 31

Today marks the end of Jewish American Heritage Month, Illinois.

I won't be silent in the face of a continuing record rise of antisemitism in our nation.

There is strength in our faith, and we can always find strength in one another.

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Daniel Rock @danielrock.bsky.social · May 31

Full automation of code is a choice, and I don’t think it’s one that’ll be made in most firms. By percentage of code written, sure, machines will dominate. but you know what’s complementary to shitloads of new code? Talented developers.

Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · May 28

Again, I don't think it's at all obvious what AI is going to do to the economy but on my very specific hobby horse: it's darkly funny how quickly we've gone from "mobilize schools to meet the economy's unfathomable appetite for computer scientists" to "tough luck coders we have AI now".

Axios @axios.com · May 28

EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has a blunt, scary warning: AI could wipe out half of entry-level white-collar jobs and spike unemployment to 10-20% in the next 1-5 years.

Few are paying attention: Politicians don't get it. CEOs are afraid to talk about it.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · May 3

For those who don't know this story, which I first shared six years ago today....

This one time I got my days wrong at work and ended up alone in a room with my boss and the President of Ireland while I was on ketamine.

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Harper 🤯 @harper.lol · May 27

My perspective on vibe coding vs real coding

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Daniel Rock @danielrock.bsky.social · May 25

It also strikes me as somewhat bad faith to attack Koch or Arnold here.

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Bailey Bowcutt @baileybowcutt.bsky.social · May 22

I'm a current Harvard graduate student and I found out today that I had my NSF GRFP terminated without notification. I was awarded this individual research fellowship before even choosing Harvard as my graduate school

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Daniel Rock @danielrock.bsky.social · May 21

“Hitchbot was a literal pile of trash and got what it deserved”

Go Birds.

Drew Breunig @dbreunig.bsky.social · May 21

The team at Harvard's insight and interaction lab says this is due to RL-induced guardrails specific to Chargers fans, but I bet ChatGPT knows what Philadelphians do to robots they don't like. aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-m...

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Daniel Rock @danielrock.bsky.social · May 21

lol delco pooper

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Daniel Rock @danielrock.bsky.social · May 20

People don’t realize the reason bond ratings matter is that they’re tied to regulations and policies with margining requirements.

You really don’t want the BBB- to BB+ change.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · May 20

(Bloomberg) - Hong Kong’s pension fund managers have flagged the risk of potential forced selling on their Treasury holdings after a downgrade by Moody’s Ratings of US debt, according to people familiar with the matter.

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