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Omer Calakos-Mano
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Data Scientist, former neuroscientist, Jersey City resident
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The prompt is slightly ambiguous. "A cyclops wearing sunglasses that are specially made for him" does better but still fails.
The glasses are correct but the eye is drawn above them
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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The google AI summary feature needs to include a "sanity check" step. LLMs have all the knowledge necessary to provide a correct answer if you don't confuse them with wrong information from the web. Here is an example from Gemini 2.0 advanced (which doesn't have search capability):
Estimated Annual Income: Let's consider a few scenarios to estimate annual income: Scenario 1: Low End $2,500 per course 2 courses per semester (4 per year) Annual income: $10,000 Scenario 2: Mid Range $3,500 per course 3 courses per semester (6 per year) Annual income: $21,000 Scenario 3: Higher End (Less Common) $4,500 per course 3 courses per semester (6 per year) Annual income: $27,000 Important Considerations: Benefits: Adjuncts often do not receive benefits like health insurance, retirement contributions, or paid time off. This significantly impacts their overall compensation and financial security. Job Security: Adjunct positions are often contingent and lack the job security of tenured or tenure-track positions. Courses can be canceled due to low enrollment, and contracts are typically renewed semester by semester or year by year. Multiple Jobs: Many adjuncts must teach at multiple institutions or hold other jobs to make ends meet, making it difficult to generalize about the average pay of all adjuncts as they are not usually employed full time. Conclusion: Based on available data and common scenarios, an adjunct professor in Ohio likely makes between $10,000 and $27,000 per year, with most falling somewhere in the middle. It's a wide range, highlighting the precarious and often underpaid nature of adjunct work. The lack of benefits and job security further compounds the financial challenges faced by adjunct faculty. It is crucial to remember that this is a broad estimate. For the most accurate information, one should research specific institutions and their pay scales for adjunct faculty. Resources like the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the Chronicle of Higher Education sometimes publish data on faculty salaries, including adjunct pay.
January 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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The ZipRecruiter error is probably due to an issue with a non-ML-based parser. Here is an example adjunct posting: archive.ph/lwBM1. The stipend is for a semester but the parser thinks it's per month. An LLM-based parser would probably be able to avoid the error. Gemini gets this right for instance
Screenshot of Gemini's output. It says the following: The job posting states a stipend of $13,112.93. However, it also mentions that this figure is an estimate and the final salary may vary based on factors like experience, qualifications, and departmental budgets. It's also important to note that this is a part-time position for the Spring 2025 semester, so the stipend likely covers the entire semester, not a monthly salary.
January 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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I think Matt's style is really annoying to a lot of people (and I totally get it!). For what it's worth, Matt lays out the how he would personally evaluate the tradeoffs in the article: he would trust a scientific and economic consensus analysis for the global social cost of carbon.
Snippet from the article: In a kind of idealized wonk technocrat space, we’d have a global estimate of the social cost of carbon, and then every country would simultaneously set a carbon price exactly equal to the global social cost of carbon. That new pricing framework could then become the baseline for climate policy, and the revenue raised by the carbon price could be used for things like high-value investments in research and innovation. And then you’re off to the races.
December 2, 2024 at 10:33 PM