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Large language models can have billions, or even trillions, of parameters. But how big do they need to be to achieve acceptable performance?

Last week I posted a retrospective on swing state polls. However, I excluded Nevada and Arizona as both states still had a significant number of votes to count. Since then, both st…

How smart is ChatGPT, really?

Warning, this post is going to be about one of the most boring topics possible, font choice. The Washington Post reports the State Department has ordered a shift in font choice fro…

That's discussed in the post.

With recent management changes it seems a lot of employees have left the bird app. Turns out if you give people a choice between working long hours with little to no vision or thre…

The short answer is that because there is a huge variety in quality of high schools in the US, that would result in a lack of diversity.

That's the case in some liberal arts colleges, but is not typical, or at least wasn't in the early 00's when I went to school. Then most students did have to declare a major pretty…

If by lawyer you mean partner and by doctor you mean a practicing surgeon, both of those are pretty far into their careers. It's not very fair to compare them with an entry level e…

Google results are personalized so your first page is likely different from other people's. To be honest I would probably have to have been there to know for certain whether he was…

I am in full support of women's clothing getting oversized pockets. Especially if it means I can wear cargo pants without getting weird looks from women.

IBM's problems predate Rometty becoming CEO.

Yes, but his performance was more aided by his 7 years of experience than his two weeks of cramming.

I'm guessing it's the 7 years of experience that impressed Google, not the two weeks of cramming.

More likely they aren't testing your knowledge of the algorithm but testing your ability to write code.

Again, you aren't going to get familiar with the patterns in computer science in one week. That requires years of practice. Most likely you will just hit a Dunning-Kruger peak and …

You are unlikely to get asked any of these things during the interview, and if you are it will be obvious that you just crammed for them (much like if just brush your teeth the day…

You aren't going to gain the skills gained by a four year education in a week. And if you try it will likely be obvious. Interviewers (at least the good ones) aren't looking for so…