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A template default prompt injections for LLM chat services. The premise is that since consumer AI portals largely lack agent settings for distinct voices, we can hard code a few de…

I am less concerned about addiction than i am about introducing micro targeted foreign agendas into our nation’s cultural landscape.

Frederick Brooks in his essay "No Silver Bullet" (included in the collection Mythical Man Month) talked about the conventions of software development and I recall had called for ta…

A few comments: - It has long been known in other settings that a small number of points can impact performance of different conventions, this could perhaps be considered a validat…

I hereby present Book 7 of the essay series from the Diaries of John Henry, "Inevitable". I used to publish these every year, took a little more time on this book featuring a self-…

The best way to learn a subject is to teach it.

The only tech that scales cheaper than drones are digital interventions. This is a better way to intercept.

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal featured a full page ad directed to any remaining skeptics of quantum computing from the CEO of D-Wave Quantum.

Part of the problem of this form of benchmarking is that in some domains we wouldn't only be interested in the percent of times that an error channel is successfully mitigated, we …

Thank God someone other than Scott Aaronson is publishing this kind of content. Shetl Optimized is too much of a vanity project to serve as a mainstream resource.

Joplin really laid the stage for the emergence of jazz music. The ragtime conventions are deceptively simple, they carry a kind of counter balance between the cleffs almost resembl…

The book is not just about the ideas, it is about the tapestry of how it was presented. It was a new form of literature. The whole document was its own strange loop.

Hi there, author here, this collection marks the sixth year of writing essays on themes like machine learning, entrepreneurship, and quantum computing. Through the project we've pu…

You can't evaluate rationality in context of small number of samples of a fat tailed distribution with wide uncertainty bands. Besides, startups can be a kind of success even in fa…

The funny thing is that entrepreneurship doesn't even have to require dropping out of school. A three month summer break is easily enough time to start digging into a niche and val…

They cited some of LeCun's solo work from the 80's on related matters, note that he also collaborated with Geoffrey Hinton on a related paper from NIPS 89 in which they used random…

The root enabling factor was not only the reinforcement learning, it was the simulation. Put differently, any environment that you can simulate within sufficient accuracy, you can …

The cool thing about math applications is just how easy it would be to generate synthetic data. That these large language models haven't attempted to supplement their gigabytes+ sc…

This article highlights a few fundamental flaws: - design certification treated as "just another 737" which ignored fundamental deviations in hardware and software, complicated by …

Based on wikipedia it appears the original definition of perceptron was associated with the specific case of a neuron with a heavy-side step function activation output (which maps …