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You can find GPT-2's training dataset list - at a high level - in the GPT-2 repository on Github: https://github.com/openai/gpt-2/blob/master/model_card.md#da... However, OpenAI go…

I hadn't heard of this website, SiliconAngle.com, before this week but they interviewed someone from the company that I work at (not for this Neeva article; for a different article…

I have not read the paper below yet, but it seems germane to any discussion of the source(s) of credit default swap data: "Are all Credit Default Swap Databases Equal?" https://www…

In this post I've read A LOT of incorrect population decline estimates. Here is a paper from The Lancet - not retracted, that I know of - that charts the populations of the present…

ProPublica has some consistently high-quality reporting on meatpacking as a an industry from all kinds of perspectives - the (mis)management of them during the pandemic, the hiring…

Yes, SVB Securities is a separate entity from SVB, the bank. See this press release from PRNewswire: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/svb-securities-cont... SVB Securities …

I think they mean Transformers in the Vaswani et al 'Attention is all you need' paper, not Generative Pretrained Transformers, specifically? Paper link below: https://proceedings.n…

Does anyone have a good alternative to Privacy.com where your virtual credit card transaction data isn't sold to Wall Street? If you're unfamiliar with what a "virtual [credit] car…

I was writing a long comment up top about this, but instead I'll reply here. Person with a background in public policy, especially around poverty alleviation efforts. I think that …

One thing that I'm not seeing mentioned in any capacity in the comments on this HN page is role of institutional investors. Prior to 2008 'single family homes' did not exist as an …

Is there a way to use an app similar to Privacy to set up a "burner bank account"? Or do you physically go into a bank, credit union, etc. and sign up for a new account as a new me…

I forget where I read it - maybe it was a creative writing exercise somewhere - but the hivemind was tasked with coming up with "a replacement for the car wash in Breaking Bad". Al…

I thought that people understood that this was the point of chat bots? Much like useless phone trees with awful automated speech recognition chatbot are - IMO as someone who has wo…

I wonder if a large portion of their valuation isn't based on the data rather than the product? (Would allow you to get signal on when [your] employees are interviewing elsewhere, …

My email address is fname.lname@gmail.com and I get dozens of these account signups per year. You'd be surprised at the mobile phone companies, banks, and other accounts which do n…

You may have to turn on your VPN to appear to be coming from an EU country (or maybe even from inside Germany, since this Youtube channel, Strg-F [literally "Ctrl F", so 'find'] is…

For folks who are curious, here's a translation. Scroll to the bottom of the dictionary page. In the left-hand column there is an entry under `gadara`: https://ejtaal.net/aa/#hw4=7…

I like to use OpenSyllabus to investigate which textbooks, papers, etc. are used to teach courses: https://opensyllabus.org/

I'd reach out to Crowdstrike with the domains names ( https://dataservicegroup[.]com ). This follows the MO of APTs out of North Korea: https://www.wired.com/story/north-korean-it-…