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> A lot of people seem to think of the training process as curve-fitting data (the "stochastic parrot" model), but I think of it more as "solving an inverse problem to approximate …

You may be discounting the tokens generated in the thinking trace but not included in the output to users.

The “problem” is exactly as you’ve framed it: individual 1-1 tutoring unambiguously improves education outcomes by a significant (2 StDev’s in Blooms study) vs any other understood…

Thank you for this and for parent’s comment - I know what rabbit hole I’m going down today.

Mistral in the EU, for one.

Mistral (a French company) shouldn’t be discounted.

What makes you think 1-2, 6-8 can’t be done by agents?

Yes - itself.

Friend, I bet those folks living rural West Virginia are super happy that, on average, a group whose only shared characteristics is the colour of their skin are enjoying an elevate…

How do you feel about your current levels of dakka?

Are you ok there? SAML, OIDC and a depressingly long tail of Kerberos is how modern enterprise identity security works.

We have multiple threads of research demonstrating in-context learning, friend. https://github.com/dqxiu/ICL_PaperList

This thread is about coding agents , of which a model is only one (important) part.

Fancy while() loops is how I describe them.

Claude, with a modicum of guidance from an engineer familiar with your monolith, could could write comprehensive unit tests of your existing system, then refactor it into coherent …

Only if you’re relying upon the models to recall facts from its training set - intuitively, at sufficient complexity, models ability to reason is what is critical and can have its …

Guilds of Knowledge hoarders and AI adepts are my bet as well.

Thank you, I learnt a new term today.

… the internet was not immediately useful in a million different ways for almost every person. Even if you skip ARPAnet, you’re forgetting the Gopher days and even if you jump stra…

Nitpick: Language is technology, it’s not something we’re genetically born with and is critical for education to happen.

Technically you are correct but the commenter you’re responding to means that with the amount of Western Governments spend on MS products and services, the are a d facto (if not de…

Only if you profoundly misunderstand what GC is.

Ping Identity run the largest enterprise identity platforms on the planet after merging with ForgeRock last year. Think HSBC, JP Morgan Chase-scale.

>Humas learn dynamically In-context learning (Few Shot Prompting) is absolutely demonstrable by LLMs since GPT 3.5 at least.

> In most rent controlled systems there is a per sqm pre-allowed rent. Those markets are frequently characterised by poorly maintained rental stock. >Don’t you have a moral obligat…