Metadata
- Author: Benn Stancil
- Full Title:: Playing for Ourselves
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://benn.substack.com/p/playing-for-ourselves
- Finished date:: 2023-12-16
Highlights
Instead of working like a novelist or an academic to write Who Makes the NBA?, Stephens-Davidowitz worked like one of us: Against a tight deadline, worried more about directional correctness than scientific rigor, and responsible for not just producing his analysis but also presenting it. (View Highlight)
Ask ChatGPT to write a SQL query against an artificially simple schema; it’s a junior analyst, at best. But ask it to come up with possible hypotheses to explain why there’s some anomaly in a metric, and it does better than I would. (View Highlight)
As both an analyst and a hack on the internet, I want to find results with clever punchlines. I likely benefit more by saying something startling than I do by saying something that is right. The brilliant analyses that perfectly predict when the sun will rise tomorrow get no press, because it’s expected. The bold and exciting claims get the clicks. (View Highlight)