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Sam Altman: “GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like talking to an expert in any topic, like a PhD-level expert.” Elon Musk on Grok: “better than PhD level in everything.…

> Now talk to someone living near the equator like Singapore, and 0F is unimaginably cold (even 40F is basically unheard of), and 100F is very hot but not extraordinarily so. Bad e…

This matches my experience as a statistician who used to begrudgingly write bad code when I had to. LLMs have opened up huge new possibilities for me. No doubt there's some Gell-Ma…

If you haven't tried a creatine supplement, I'd suggest trying it. 5g/day makes a huge difference for me in workout recovery.

Agreed. The concept of “don’t reuse your old work when you’re supposed to be creating new work” may be valid, especially in training environments, but it shouldn’t be called self-p…

Perhaps an easier to intuit version of it is how full airliners are. An airline might report that their flights are on average 60% full, and that might be completely absolutely 100…

I have similar feelings about TV shows. There are shows that I wish hadn’t ended after a couple of seasons, but there are also a ton of shows that dragged on for 6, 8, 15 seasons w…

Make sure to remind it to make no mistakes.

An LLM trained only on true statements will still hallucinate.

> Remember, the only thing that stops a guy with an evil god-in-a-box is a guy with a benevolent god-in-a-box, and only Antrophic can lead us to the second one – but only if we act…

A highly publicized recent example: the author (of a book about genAI!) who doesn’t understand why he should be held responsible for the fake quotes he copy and pasted into his boo…

Fair. The concept predates Marx, but in contemporary thought is most closely associated with Marxism. The quote about silver from Peru is particularly striking to my ears. That’s a…

Labor theory of value is a Marxist idea, not an Adam Smith idea. Internet Marxists sometimes point to a passage in The Wealth of Nations to suggest that Smith also supported a labo…

Doesn’t it? It seems in line with the matplotlib drama where the llm agent wrote a blog post attacking the maintainer for rejecting its pull request [1]. It’s not something that st…

Giraffes neurons can be up to 15 feet long. Blue whales are speculated to have neurons up to 100 feet long, though they've never been directly observed (dissected).

> For an example, look at some of Julia Mossbridge's work. Never heard of her but I just spent about 5 minutes looking. Her PhD is in communication sciences and disorders [1], but …

> We expect our machines to behave in predictable ways. I expect LLMs to produce randomly varying output. Maybe it's the thousands of hours I spent doing monte carlo simulations fo…

LLMs have a temperature parameter. At zero temperature they are deterministic: they always choose the most likely next token at each step based on what came before and the model we…

Please point to where in my initial comment I indicated that LLMs are human or reason. If you are unable to do so please withdraw your accusation of gaslighting, a serious form of …

I didn’t claim that LLMs are people or that they reason. If the behavior of the llm is the same as the behavior of reasonable people then the behavior of the llm is reasonable, reg…

If you ask 10 different humans to produce the spec with the same information (prompt and context) they will also produce 10 unique answers that will contradict each other and (depe…

In STEM fields, yes. In humanities it’s not uncommon.

The goal of a PhD is to become a world expert in a specific topic, whether or not you’re planning on staying in academia. This may or may not be in alignment with the student’s goa…

> Does an approximation to pi therefore slowly creep in as you increase the sides on the polygon? Yes, under some assumptions. As the sibling comment points out, if there’s a singl…

> If I were hosting illegal malicious actors doing this stuff on my home servers and refused to even say who was doing it I would 100% get my door kicked down by the FBI. But some …