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And sell some puts against assets at good prices to harvest premium in the meantime

Can you elaborate on this? I am curious what processes are being simulated to feed the network.

The lack of screen time limits on the Apple TV just demonstrates Apple's complete lack of credibility in this area too. And the parental controls on their other devices are illogic…

> The salt in the wounds is that universities are flush with cash, yet its spent on anything and everything except for the welfare of the students. Maybe the elites. State schools …

This is remarkably dystopian. ‘Bought our tv? We are going to show you ads and you can’t even turn it off’

And no evidence - literally nothing - presented to support the idea of looming AGI except ‘some people in the business/in the government said so, and I believe them.’

I think of hallucinating as a phenomenon where the model makes up something that appears correct but isn’t. Citations to papers that don’t exist, for example. Regurgitating trainin…

The interesting thing here to me is that the llm isn’t ‘hallucinating’, it’s simply regurgitating some data it digested during training.

To say nothing of the California golden bear, which graces the state flag despite being hunted to extinction around 1924. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_grizzly_bear

I teach linear algebra to undergraduates mostly majoring in cs or other tech-related fields. I've never found a textbook or resource that I feel really serves this population well …

PyTorch is just much more flexible. Implementing a custom loss function, for example, is straightforward in PyTorch and a hassle in Keras (or was last time I used it, which was sev…

In addition to the points others have made, flights that pass near the poles are often rerouted to lower latitudes.

If you have a pair of eclipse glasses you may be able to see the sunspot cluster causing all the action with them, it’s enormous.

Unfortunately a rain/sleet/ice/wet snow mix is now more common than 'dry' snow in my part of the northeast US, necessitating waterproof gear if you want to be outside in the winter…

66north from Iceland has some excellent wool fleeces.

But where do you find a good agent? My experiences have been of sellers agents dramatically undervaluing my property hoping for a quick sale and buyers agents with none of the qual…

Pay cash, skip the screen