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I was inspired by https://slop.zackg.me/ , which does the same thing for PL papers but with entire fully generated AI papers (i.e. LaTeX-rendered PDFs and all) - check it out! I th…

> What counts as research? You might be aware of this, but most big tech companies (i.e. the ones with massive user counts) don't just let you roll out UI changes to everyone, beca…

A parody of a fictional New Yorker article, in which journalist Isaac Chotiner grills the administrator from Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" about the civic benefits of ritual ston…

The madlib like sentences approach is actually how masked token prediction works! It was one of the pretraining tasks for BERT, but nowadays I think all (?) LLMs are trained with n…