Some of my recent prompting strategies… See my Structured LLM Prompting post for more recent and advanced prompting tips. General Tips Keep in mind: LLMs are charting a way through a latent topic space. Prompts are the starting, pre-defined path on a longer journey, and you are asking the model to auto-complete that journey. AddingContinue reading “LLM Prompts”
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Earth Engine Guide
I’m working on a guide to help economists get started using Google Earth Engine. The first draft of this guide is on this google doc, which seems fairly effective so far. Some of the contents:– common confusion about the client-side and server-side of Earth Engine functions– a typical workflow for developing Earth Engine code– notesContinue reading “Earth Engine Guide”
Some tools for Bayesian Posterior Estimation
Below are some tools I’m familiar with as of 2023-04-07. Stan seems the most promising. I plan to come back and update this post in the future once I have finished a project. Stan – a power tool for Bayesian probability models Assuming you already want to sample from some posterior distribution… what tools areContinue reading “Some tools for Bayesian Posterior Estimation”
Getting Started with Julia
Julia is a young programming language that is gaining speed and usage in economics. There’s a growing number of sites exploring and teaching Julia in the context of economics. One great site is quantecon.org, and I hope to outline a few more examples in the future. To get started in Julia, here are a fewContinue reading “Getting Started with Julia”