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has it occurred to you that we are all stochastic parrots, in chinese rooms, trained on the test set
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there is nothing google research can build that google management cannot destroy
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what homeownership was to the boomers, compute ownership will be to us
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Reminder: Pooh is now public domain and GPT knows it
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now see, rule 4 here is what you call a regularization term
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when i was an undergrad CS student, the "rubber ducky" was a very common debugging technique (explain your problems to an inanimate object to better understand them yourself) it's been a brave new world since the rubber duckies started talking back
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can't wait for the gpt-5 <=> sora agentic feedback loop to replace hollywood
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ml is absolutely the most grug-brained field of research pick magic parameters, check results, maybe add gallbladder of toad, repeat at scale mostly this is a good thing
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til the original aladdin has a post-credits scene the original! in 1992!
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the dark secret of book reviews is that no one actually reads the book however replete with details the review may be, once you actually start reading you will invariably find them all in the first 20 pages
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a billion tokens is not cool. you know what's cool? 8 trillion tokens
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Only if you're relying on a generic GPT-4 API! Try running mistral locally and observe the possibilities
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In what case is (1) ever true?
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that's why you have to marry someone who treats logistics as a personal passion
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Idea: a podcast with anonymous guests verified by ZK, to discuss topics too wild for their regular persona
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Self-invalidating sentences: statements that, if true, becomes false as soon as they are declared. For instance, "I am a Straussian."
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"Wen token" was the bull market question "Why token" is the bear market question
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My chess is limited to blitz during work breaks...but bring the Go board and we're talking
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One of the many whose vision far outpaces both their philosophy and their prose - happens much too often for anything related to economics and the hard sciences.
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It occurs to me with the Emsam discussion that self-medication is both asymmetric downside and adversely selected: you can do more severe harm than good, and the more you need it, the less likely you are to make the right judgment calls. This can be countered by methodological rigor, but I suspect few manage it well.
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