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9,319karma·1,597submissions·May 18, 2016
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Really enjoyed that. Thanks for sharing.
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He has this tactic that I really dislike. After hearing a question he pauses a tremendously long time, as if deeply pondering it, but then spits out what is clearly just the company line, but he speak…
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Viruses are to life as LLMs are to reasoning: they often behave like their category expects but not for the same reasons as the genuine article.
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> "Optimizers will optimize your objective function, not your intended objective function." Extremely important to remember when using LLMs.
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It's a good article. The long term problem is that Vegas went too upscale and now has priced out a huge swath of the market. The immediate term problem is that the U.S. has frightened away foreig…
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I'm still on 18. I keep waiting for the all clear sign to upgrade. I take it, not yet?
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I work in marketing and I beg my father not to buy anything he sees in digital ads, especially not the garbage promoted in the word game app he likes. I tell him if he sees a product he wants in an ad…
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“Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.”
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Most stimuli result in habituation over time. Live with trash long enough and you’ll stop noticing it so much.
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I had a Kindle and quite liked it, but I also have an iPad and when the Kindle died I decided I didn’t need two devices in that form factor even though eink is great for the beach. I would consider bu…
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