It's well known that lower income people tend to suffer much worse health. Is poverty at the heart of this disparity, and, if so, could a large cash transfer help close this gap? We examine an RCT that provided 1000 low income participants $1000/month for 3 years. We find…

Our Llama 3.1 405B is now openly available! After a year of dedicated effort, from project planning to launch reviews, we are thrilled to open-source the Llama 3 herd of models and share our findings through the paper: 🔹Llama 3.1 405B, continuously trained with a 128K context

💥BOOM 💥 Llama 3.1 is out 💥 405B, 70B, 8B versions. Main takeaways: 1. 405B performance is on par with the best closed models. 2. Open/free weights and code, with a license that enables fine-tuning, distillation into other models, and deployment anywhere. 3. 128k context

Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions? No they don't link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Predictions for the future of software engineering:

WaitGPT: Monitoring and Steering Conversational LLM Agent in Data Analysis with On-the-Fly Code Visualization. arxiv.org/abs/2408.01703

🎉 Stoked to share The AI-Scientist 🧑‍🔬 - our end-to-end approach for conducting research with LLMs including ideation, coding, experiment execution, paper write-up & reviewing. Blog 📰: sakana.ai/ai-scientist/ Paper 📜: arxiv.org/abs/2408.06292 Code 💻: github.com/SakanaAI/AI-Sc…

Are you a quantitative social scientist interested in working UCL Social Research Institute (SRI)? If so check out our new job here: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Check out all of the AI Scientist's artifacts! Blog 📰: sakana.ai/ai-scientist/ Paper ✍️: arxiv.org/abs/2408.06292 Code 🧑‍💻: github.com/SakanaAI/AI-Sc… Talk 🎙️: youtube.com/watch?v=KzXPEL… Slides 🎨: docs.google.com/presentation/d… On a personal note: This collaboration with Chris Lu,

Our new NBER paper shows young people’s mental health in the UK began declining in the late 1990s nber.org/papers/w32879?… UCL Social Research Institute (SRI) Professor Danny Blanchflower economist & fisherman

🚨 We’re looking for a researcher with expertise in statistics or quantitative social science to help us lead the way in how to deal with potential mode effects in survey research. Apply by 11 September! Find out more on the CLS website: bit.ly/3KuzL1x #ResearchJobs

I just used NotebookLM to read the original and new versions of a paper and write a response to two referee reports. It got 90% of it. Actually, to be fair it got 100% of it but I am going to add some rationalisation for the stuff I didn’t want to address.

New data release! Data from the Next Steps Age 32 Sweep are now available to download from UKDataService. For 20 years, this important national cohort study has been building a unique picture of the lives of the millennial generation. Find out more➡️ bit.ly/3MM7Db0

Interesting data analysis by John Burn-Murdoch showing that young women in the UK have been closing the employment and earning gap with their male counterparts while non-graduate men have had deteriorating labour market outcomes ft.com/content/17606f…

Nice + super clear talk from UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies PhD student Alice deng on cognition and BMI #slls2024 UCL Social Research Institute (SRI)

📣📣📣Just out from the lab! Enhancing the Polygenic Score Catalog with tools for score calculation and ancestry normalization nature.com/articles/s4158… Check out recent updates to PGS Catalog (pgscatalog.org). Since 2021, 730% & 550% increases in PGSs and curated pubs.

Tim Morris on education using genetically informed + family-based designs in MCS UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies, data freely available to researchers worldwide #slls2024

A problem in science academia unfortunately is that many scientists would rather get a big grant than make a big discovery

interesting podcast on the history and continuing value of UK cohort studies UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies. with 2 x AI hosts... created in a few clicks using the very impressive NotebookLM ! notebooklm.google.com/notebook/feddc…