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Designing and Simulating Forecasting Questions with EDSL

How to use LLM-powered agents to generate structured datasets from ranges, rationales, and free-text forecasts

Sep 23 • 

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Robin Horton

August 2025

Teaching AI simulations? Get free credits for your students and research projects.

We have ready-to-use materials for teaching LLM-based simulations with our open-source tools, and free credits for getting started. Earn more free…

Aug 17 • 

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July 2025

How to launch a survey with LLMs and humans

Our tools let you design and run the same survey with AI agents and human respondents, and seamlessly compare results.

Jul 22 • 

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Bring your own keys or mix and match

A key feature of Expected Parrot is that you can always use your own keys for LLMs and human participant platforms, or you can use your Expected Parrot…

Jul 18 • 

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Robin Horton

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June 2025

Why AI social simulations will be transformative

The Simulmatics corporation, founded in 1959, aimed to predict the future using simulations (it's right there in the company name).

Jun 30 • 

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John Horton

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Do I have time for this?

Our tools look technical and emphasize tinkering over quick answers. Here's why I still think you should try them.

Jun 18 • 

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Robin Horton

May 2025

Validate your LLM answers with real respondents

Here's a quick example of methods for generating a web-based version of your LLM survey and analyzing human and LLM responses together at your…

May 25 • 

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Robin Horton

How to retrieve, combine & query your saved results with SQL

Quick methods for accessing and analyzing your automatically stored results from anywhere.

May 12 • 

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Robin Horton

'Whit' Diffie Erasure!

Why human-provided structure improves AI answers to research questions, with examples.

May 3 • 

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John Horton

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🚀 Over 1 million Q&A cached and counting

The Universal Remote Cache now has over a million unique LLM prompts and responses. You can retrieve them at no cost whenever you replicate research at…

May 1 • 

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Robin Horton

April 2025

New features for monitoring your AI research costs

Our tools are designed to make it easy to understand and monitor your LLM usage. Learn more about our latest features for precisely tracking your costs.

Apr 28 • 

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Robin Horton

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I want to see how OpenAI's o3 compares to...

EDSL is an open-source tool that lets you readily compare performance for many language models at once.

Apr 22 • 

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