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> moving products or services right to the pain or tolerance threshold When did we start talking about the airline industry? But seriously, the reason it works for the airline indu…

This reminds me of the case of the 500 mile email: https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

You can mail in cash for ivpn too

A comprehensive discussion of the topic: https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/emergent-abilities-of-large-...

Fun fact: All of Wikipedia (text only, compressed) is like 20 GB

> Such as? I'm not specifying them, I'm referencing their existence. You can take them not to exist, but in that case good luck explaining the measurable consistency that every hum…

I have no idea what "true" means if it does not mean "a quality of a statement as being an accurate description of objective reality". While mathematics itself may be a human inven…

How is it a leap of faith when mathematical models that describe reality demonstrate continued reliance in making predictions? Does this not demonstrate that there exist mathematic…

If by "objective truth" we mean the qualities of nature that exist irrespective of any individual's perception, then I think the continued reliance of our scientific knowledge in p…

Is the fact that these systems cannot prove their own consistency actually a feature of the incompleteness theorem? I thought it effectively boiled down to "you can keep either con…

Not that you were, but I don't quite understand why people get so caught up on this fact. There are objective facts about the nature of reality, and we are all (or at least compete…

I'm assuming this is the "Cramer-Rao lower bound" Rao? What an interesting life, I knew nothing about him before this.

One use case is in the training of Diffusion Models. In the original formulation, the likelihood-maximizing objective is recast in terms of KL divergences. This is done because the…

Fantastic article - I would love to see an analysis comparing larger quantized models to smaller unquantized models. e.g. is a 14b quantized model better than a 7b unquantized mode…