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Labels did work in reducing harmful behaviors: > Participants drew on a range of risk discourses in framing their abstention or moderate drinking along the lines of health, wellnes…

Having similar thoughts at times. What are you reading nowadays?

The GPT3 paper is a good starting point Language Models are Few-Shot Learners https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165 I also enjoyed the papers for DeepSeek and GLM for an overview of all…

There are other players in the game: the business and the market. Good code makes it easier for the business to move fast and stay ahead of the competition while reducing expenses …

Is it because people genuinely don't care, or because the barrier to become a power user is becoming taller and taller every passing year?

> what kind of neural-net architecture and training would allow a model to handle numbers lengths it hasn't been trained on A recurrent neural network implementing binary addition …

> I measure, test, and validate outputs exhaustively. How do you do this? Do you follow traditional testing practices or do you have novel strategies like agents with separate resp…

There is no escaping the fact that feeding addictions is a great business model.

Luckily our friends overseas have shown us the way of dealing with uncompetitive local industries: tariffs.

Whether the code is AI generated or not is not important, what matters is that it really works. Sharing code enables others to validate the method on a different dataset. Even befo…

Isn't it insane that any web page can run a port scan in the first place? Who wants that? Meanwhile, running opencode in a podman container seems to stop this particular, err, feat…

I had similar thoughts, and my conclusion is that competition is an inherently unstable state of affairs: at some point somebody wins, and they will try very hard to prevent any fu…

But we do ban tools sometimes: you can't bring a knife to a concert, for good reason.

It is both common and uncontroversial to put restrictions on using certain tools in certain situations for safety reasons, especially in public and crowded places: you can't bring …

What other countries could teach the U.S. about bringing down drug prices A look at how European governments negotiate with pharma companies helps explain why Americans pay more fo…

Because US voters prefer the free market as opposed to government regulation and nationalized healthcare.

No, this would crash with numpy arrays, pandas series and such, with a ValueError: The truth value of an array with more than one element is ambiguous.

It is done, in many countries there are legal requirements to report adverse events whenever they are observed upon use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacovigilance#Adverse_even…

Generalized Additive Models: An Introduction with R by Simon N. Wood This book is very strong on the fundamentals, while the R code is minimal and easy to follow.

And so fact checking is back in vogue. Seems pretty biased.

Two thoughts: > how important is computing the exact gradient using calculus Normally the gradient is computed with a small "minibatch" of examples, meaning that on average over ma…

Tailoring the message to the audience is really a fundamental principle of good communication. Scientists and academics demand an entirely different level of rigor compared to cust…

I really don't know... They made a model to predict the number of views of a video from its metadata, then assumed that model errors correspond to intentional manipulation rather t…

GOS allows you to install and use apps from the Play Store and the vast majority of them works flawlessly.