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Already working on this: https://examine.dev/ "In the examine|AI system, the base AI (e.g. ChatGPT) is continuously supervised and corrected by a supervisor AI. The supervisor can …

Well they are not useless for academic research.

> Also PLoS one is basically not peer reviewed - they accept every paper after a short review. That is absolutely not true, PLOS ONE has proper peer-review, their review guidelines…

Which often is terrible advice that mostly serves to limit liability. Most medical doctors will not have a good, evidence-based answer to such questions. Better reply: Search the i…

Being very efficient at mostly extractive summarization and abstaining from abstractive summarization does seem a better bet though, because fewer things can go wrong and it is eas…

> HTML is a language that is too ambiguous to parse, and that's not a good thing for browsers. Wouldn't that be XHTML? Which was killed by HTML 5?

On the other hand: "BioNTech CEO expects vaccine can be fridge-stored for two weeks" "Speaking at an online media briefing on the purchase of an additional German production site, …

The original Nabla article is missing information on how they primed GPT-3 for each use-case, and how much effort they put into finding good ways of priming. All fancy GPT-3 demos …

Meta-comment: How is it possible that the original submission has been on the front page for 8+ hours, and all discussion is focused on this completely unrelated link? Have people …

Well, in table 1 they compare to RoBERTa trained in a vanilla supervised fashion?

> GPT-3 didn't even get SOTA on SuperGLUE. Of course neither GPT-3 nor the PET paper claim SOTA on SuperGLUE. They used a few-shot learning setup with 32 examples per task The norm…

A shorter reply would be: It would be great to compare PET not only to GPT-3, but also to other models, especially ones geared towards few-shot learning. Do you know of any other m…

I think few-shot learning (or priming) is actually the main selling point of GPT-3 for most practical applications (rather than merely entertaining language generation). So if ther…

I tried using Obsidian, but I could not resolve the uncertainty of what should be a separate note file vs several items inside a note file. I then tried various 'outliner' applicat…

Dynalist has an offline app (which syncs with the server when online). See https://dynalist.io/download . It's the same interface as on the web (so not 'native'), though.

I got very motivated to use Roam, but then settled for Dynalist. It's more polished, cheaper, and they recently added backlinks as well.

Non-American here. I think 9/11 has global significance that goes beyond its impact on the US. It destroyed the narrative that liberal democracy, free markets and technology had re…

I am an 'old millenial' and have absolutely the same impression (and my personal life at that time was also a mixed bag, so it certainly is not personal nostalgia). The time period…

> They said travel bans don't work. This defies basic logic. > They delayed declaraing the pandemic to be a pandemic. I have come to think that a major problem with the WHO might b…

It is the consensus of medical professionals and officials in those countries that have demonstrated that they can greatly reduce the spread (China, South Korea, Japan). It is not …

The message should be that simple, non-N95/FFP3 masks only have minor protective effect for the wearer, but can significantly reduce the spread of droplets by the wearer and protec…

I co-authored an evidence-based call to action for promoting simple DIY masks some time ago [1] and it got some good resonance from politicians. Still, we don't see adoption of DIY…

I recently co-authored a scientific commentary on this, ask me anything! "Promoting simple do-it-yourself masks: an urgent intervention for COVID-19 mitigation" (Svara et al. 2020)…

This also resonates with recent sentiment that telling people that "masks don't work" (with the intention of keeping people from buying masks when they are scarce even for health c…

Abstract: "We demonstrate that widespread use of masks by the general population could be an effective strategy for slowing down the spread of COVID-19. Since surgical masks might …