The Edge of Reason
Critical thinking gives us an edge in life. We must constantly sharpen our reasoning skills. Otherwise the ambiguity of language and our need for quick answers may bring us beyond the edge of reason.
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Generative AI as a Potential New Factor of Production (opens the original)
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Deus ex machina (opens the original)
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Using Large Language Models to Streamline and Enhance R&D Surveys (opens the original)
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AbstractLarge language models (LLMs) can support official statistics most effectively when they are embedded in concrete production tasks rather than treated as autonomous systems. This paper discusses three practical use cases from the production of R&D statistics at Statistics Iceland. First, ChatGPT and DeepSeek were used to help design a Microsoft SQL Server pipeline that transforms raw R&D survey outputs into a full SDMX template for Eurostat. The resulting architecture used unpivoted surve
Digital sovereignty is not just French eccentricity (opens the original)
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