stats quiz, scale ai

quiz
- Spent 45 minutes reviewing and checking answers repeatedly
- questions i keep asking myself:
  - Where could I have made a mistake in this question?
  - Is this answer actually correct?
  - Could it be a different answer?
  - Can this answer be verified?
- i need to view quizzes and exams in a different way to make it less pressuring, i also need to study more efficiently
Notes from Experiments Book
- Psychology vs. Economics Rules
  - should your experiment be psychological or economical?
  - psych: Difficulty navigating a website on first try = design flaw
  - econ: Wait until several interactions to decide if new design is easy or hard. the small blip of users leaving initially is inconsequential
- Heuristics
  - Availability heuristics: Assessing frequency or probability based on readily available memory.
  - Representativeness heuristics: Making judgments based on previously formed stereotypes.
- Framing
  - Gain frame vs. loss frame.
  - Risk averse vs. risk seeking.
- Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
  - Randomized control trials for effective evaluations of development policies.
  - Example: Does giving new textbooks to schools in Kenya improve educational outcomes?
  - Cross-sectional correlation can be misleading (e.g., schools with textbooks may have access to good teachers and better parents).
- Investing in Student Health and Facilities
  - Reduce poverty by ensuring policy is informed by scientific evidence, primarily through field experiments.
- importance of policy making
  - Organ donation: Only one third of people get organs out of 100k; this policy issue is a matter of life and death.
Scale AI
- Spacious and modern office at 650 Townsend, 600k sq ft.
- Hoping to see Alexandr; crazy that he started the company at a young age (19?).
- Feeling too insecure to talk to anyone there.
Tesla
- Realizing past work was messy and incoherent.
- Need to structure a story for interviews.

BENEDICT NEO 梁耀恩

stats quiz, scale ai