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Does anyone have any insight (or informed guesses) that might explain the strange downward "spike" that was consistently observed at dimension 196 in OpenAI's text-embedding-ada-00…

Was it only the last sentence that was wrong? Would you mind indicating what advice you think the PhD person should have written to you based on what they knew of you at the time? …

Can anyone find a link to Apple’s nine-page submission document? All reports of this seem to refer back to the same BBC article, which purports to quote from Apple’s submission, bu…

Can anyone comment on how the limits on GPT-X’s token space translate to limits on its vocabulary (with corresponding limits on understanding input and generating output)? For exam…

For a fun exploration of this, see the short story “Crystal Nights”, by Greg Egan: https://www.gregegan.net/MISC/CRYSTAL/Crystal.html

I also had this experience, thank you for fixing it so quickly. The game is fun!

Possibly relevant (from the Firebase FAQ[1]): Why was my Realtime Database reported bandwidth lower than average between September 2016 and March 2017? For our bandwidth calculatio…

This analysis from Ben Thompson (Stratechery[1]) just yesterday would be a great place to start: "Imagine a Twitter app that, instead of a generic Moment that is little more than T…

Chris Lattner talked about some of these issues on the Accidental Tech Podcast a few weeks ago: http://atp.fm/205-chris-lattner-interview-transcript/ It was a great episode and is …

"It is our goal to train a trillion-parameter model on a trillion-word corpus. We have not scaled our systems this far as of the writing of this paper, but it should be possible by…

In telling the other side of the story, the Dash developer published his (apparently secret) recording of a 7-minute long telephone call he had with a person at Apple who purports …

> If I had an algorithm that produced halfway decent results in an automated fashion, I wouldn't use it to get into the legal technology market. I'd set myself up as a litigation f…

"In some Australian cities, in the central business district, the traffic light push buttons don't work at certain times — for example, 7 am to 7 pm, Monday to Wednesday, and 7 am …

Here you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11924009

The free app Mathpix for iOS does this really well too: http://mathpix.com

The public beta of OpenAI Gym, a toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning algorithms, was released last month: https://openai.com/blog/openai-gym-beta/

Some of these statements are incorrect or incomplete in a way that might hinder the casual reader. The families on Nauru are free to leave and return to their countries of origin a…

I would have found it easier to review these Apply HN threads if each applicant had completed the full YC Fellowship application and posted that in their thread as well. For many o…

That isn't the case he ran before the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention though.[1] Judging from his written submissions, he says that the UK has caused him to face "an impossibl…

There is something curious about the conclusion that surrounding a person for the purpose of lawfully detaining them amounts to unlawful detention. Hasn't that been a traditional m…

Thanks very much for your time and consideration, Aaron—this has been helpful.

We have at least a small user base in every state, and also a small user base amongst students who started with us and went on to be accepted into universities and colleges, but to…