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I'm confused. I think you're confusing Gemini and Gemma. Gemini is Google's frontier offering which is closed-weight, API-only, like most frontier models. Gemma is Google's open-we…

You're saying it's important to have up-to-date facts stored in parametric knowledge? It seems to me like that's grown less and less important as agentic capabilities have grown. E…

Accuracy isn't a meaningful metric here without reference to a specific task.

Not that this really takes away from the substance of the article, but the first two paragraphs are giving heavy Claude smell. Semicolons, em dashes, "That sequencing matters"... I…

Raphaël Millière has a very useful term for this kind of vacuous dismissal, the redescription fallacy ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.03910 , page 9): > Recent debates have been cloud…

I'll be really interested to hear qualitative reports of how this model works out in practice. I just can't believe that a model this small is actually as good as Opus, which is ru…

Is Java or Haskell any closer to human language?

Has everyone always nailed their implementation of every program on the first try? Of course not. Probably what happens most times is you first complete something that sorta works …

I know this is mostly about keyword substitution but it still tickles me that you still write f(x) in this language and not (x)f given that Korean is SOV but I guess that's just ho…

Let's be real here, regardless of what Boris thinks, this decision is not in his hands.

Novels are fictional too. So long as they're not taken too literally, archetypes can be helpful mental prompts.

If you're really just doing traditional NER (identifying non-overlapping spans of tokens which refer to named entities) then you're probably better off using encoder-only (e.g. htt…

I recommend having a look at 16.3 onward here if you're curious about this: https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/16.pdf I'm not familiar with Whisper in particular, but typicall…

In my (poor) understanding, this can depend on hardware details. What are you running your models on? I haven't paid close attention to this with LLMs, but I've tried very hard to …

Sure, this is a common sentiment, and one that works for some courses. But for others (introductory programming, say) I have a really hard time imagining an assignment that could n…

I'm a professor at an R1 university teaching mostly graduate-level courses with substantive Python programming components. On the one hand, I've caught some students red handed (Ch…

> Fermentation is completely stopped in a regular fridge, you need higher temperature for fermentation. My understanding as a hobbyist brewer and fermenter is that this is not true…

I think this is both a harmful and irrational attitude. Why focus on some trivial mechanical errors and disparage the authors for it instead of the thing that is much more importan…