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by scotty79 166 days ago
> The prompt of my most-missed card (39 misses in 2025) is: Merrily We Roll Along (the musical) is based on a 1934 play by what two people

> [...] But, ChatGPT and Gemini both tell me that these effects are not statistically significant, despite having pretty large sample sizes.

Imagine he instead learned how to calculate staristical significance instead so he didn't have to believe AI guesswork.

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Yes, different strokes I guess but I can't imagine just using flashcards for random information. And you'd think someone who wrote(maybe vibe coded?) a flashcard program would be calculate that by hand.
Yes, I can calculate that! I was a math major and have some basic literacy. I checked the LLMs' work. That said, I only did so with medium rigor, and I wanted to flag that I was speaking as someone who was assisted by AI, not someone who had done the process by hand.