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> 1. The AI answers many questions, some of which are potentially harmful, and generates first draft answers. ... > 4. The system repeats this process until it collects a large dat…

> Factually, its first draft made a best guess (prediction) of what’s accurate. A well pre-trained LLM makes every word a good guess of what the authors of its training set would s…

FTFY: "they're _almost_ the same thing." Dividends lower stock price by moving cash from company to owner, buybacks increase stock prices[1] by de-diluting, so only one of those is…

That sounds like an argument about "if one's time is worth less than minimum wage, one cannot find a job". And sure that is true for some people, but saying it benefits _only_ ... …

PhD in Machine Learning, on O-1 based on research. EB1B got denied (I have enough accomplishments, company accomplishments excluded for weird reasons). O-1 up for renewal next year…

Have you ever used Rust? it is not object oriented at all. It uses Traits (kinda like interfaces) for generic programming. If you don't know, please don't muddy the waters.

As a trading quant starting this Friday, are there any good forums on the net for reading up the soft aspects?

Of course the coverage by libraries, accessibility of varied example code have improved tremendously, as have version control (es. distributed). But I would say that the amount of …

I won't argue about definitions, except to say I am following [1], and suggest you do the same (because it is a use of words that matches their general meanings, not because it is …

Eh... no. Most markets are for items there are many of. There are lots of apples, people see friends enjoying them, people buy one, like it, buy another, a price is established. Ke…

It is a job of the government to counteract destabilizing influences such as the wealth concentrating effects of technology and under-competition. As a foreigner living in the US, …

Location: Princeton, US Title: ML postdoc, formerly software engineer Years Exp: >5, depends how you count Next move: Finding a job in industry (tech or finance in NYC or Bay area)…

Proof based trusted computing. seL4 and similar applications of coq proof assistant. Existing academia is funding some development of tools like coq, and also some core application…