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the natural language tasking for actions between apps is the first thing that's made me excited about anything related to the latest AI craze. if apple can keep it actually private…

"Oxen of the Sun" is, in a sense, the apex of English literature to me. The modernists had a knack for essentially believing that if they just tried hard enough and wrote with enou…

Yeah, my understanding is the ULMFit paper was the “genesis” Of fine-tuning in the way we mean it now.

IR theorists sometimes try to get around this by narrowing the focus to direct great-power wars, which always felt like a cop-out to me (I'm a political scientist) EDIT: although t…

I really do love New England towns in general. I went to undergrad at a small Vermont college and being walkable or bikeable to restaurants, bars, grocery stores, etc. but also bei…

Perhaps I snuck in a bit of a hot take I had when doing my thesis ;) I find that GR’s cadence and vibe follow Ulysses; the psyche deconstruction that occurs alongside physical mean…

I think it's worth trying again--it has a story, but its plot structure is in direct conversation/opposition to the modernists, so it's looser, more chaotic, and more deconstructed…

I wrote my undergrad thesis on Gravity's Rainbow and the book has stuck with me more than perhaps any other. It's a post-modern retelling of Ulysses, for one, but not just that. It…

“Just” linear alg, LOL. I made it through calculus 2/3 in high school but linear algebra gives me fits, especially since I only ever learned it in a data science context. Linear al…

My understanding is that multi-modal models are the primary focus of OpenAI right now, due to their stated goal of achieving AGI. This product is probably better thought of as an o…

This appears to be heterodox here, but this statement is nothing to be alarmed about. IRBs have been mandating this type of risk analysis for decades for the subjects of research, …

This feels weird at first glance, but the IDE is staying as RStudio. I love the company and all they’ve done to make data analysis more accessible, so good on them and may they suc…

Zerohedge really shouldn’t be tolerated here at this point in time, to be honest.

This is some good climate news for once. The fast pace of renewable energy rollout can and will help us avoid catastrophe.

Love the design but debit cards always feel a bit dicey to use.

at this point, it should be abundantly obvious that the point of mask-wearing is collective protection from asymptomatic people. You’re a bad person because you’re actively putting…

Clearly. I also think that the pain of the centralization of tech like this will be felt in the scope of years, while the increase in the automation of propaganda and radicalizatio…

In spite of all that we're studying wrt abuse potential, I (and my team) generally support open-sourcing tech, and I hope that we can contribute not to "oh this is dangerous, don't…

Might be able to get 745M down to work on a single GPU. I'm definitely not using all 24GB, so fp16 might be able to get it down enough.

We (the Middlebury Institute's CTEC) are an extremism and terrorism research lab, and so we're tracking the ways that tech is used by terrorists and extremists. For a lot of nonsta…

I'm the lead researcher on the Middlebury Institute project looking at fine-tuning the bigger models, and I got OOM on 745M and 1.5B originally. I had to get an Azure instance with…

The criteria is pretty straightforward: you apply the "intolerance of intolerance" to the first intolerant action in the chain, i.e. the one that infringes unprompted on someone el…

> When you say “you can’t blame Amazon, they’re just paying market wages” what you’re saying is “profit is the only thing that could possibly matter.” You put your finger on the th…

I don't have time to reply to this in-depth, but I think that your comment actually elucidated the biggest issue, which is that this demonization and distrust of the mainstream med…

It's... pretty incredible that this comment subtly shifts the blame for fake news from networks of coordinated, decentralized, anti-mainstream actors to the mainstream. It's almost…