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occamrazor

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    I’m curious, what was the rationale for forbidding it?

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    Comment #43583735

    Apple group of companies, rather than a specific legal entity. A common distinction in financial journalism.

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    Comment #43544761

    FYI: Lex, not Rex. But a Rex Talionis is an interesting concept too.

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    Comment #40822660

    On prompts only, with answers presumably from the teacher model (Gemini). It was not trained or RLHFd on Arena replies or user preferences.

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    Comment #40721518

    How so? Maybe in the past, but nothing announced today is open.

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    Comment #40660724

    For Tao, spending 10x time on aproof still means spending 5x less time than an average postdoc. He is incredibly fast and productive.

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    Comment #40010028

    On all flights I have taken the flight attendants count the passengers on board before taxiing and check the lavatories. This method wouldn't have worked even with available free s…

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    Comment #39927786

    Zopf means “braid” and it also denotes a medium-size bread type, made with some milk and glazed with yolk, shaped like a braid, traditionally eaten on Sunday.

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    Comment #39840765

    I like: - “open weights” for no training data and no restrictions on use, - “weights available” for no training data and restrictions on use, like in this case.

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    Comment #39840666

    It‘s more likely to be incompetence than malice: even their 73.7% is closer to 72% than to 74%.

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    Comment #39778688

    Scholar is heavily used internally, it’s unlikely to be discontinued even if it has never brought any money to Google.

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    Comment #39698258

    Note that the model is based on RoBERTa and has only 125m parameter. It is not competing against any of the new popular models, not even small ones like Phi or GeMMa.

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    Comment #39652291

    Pedantic remark: HTML 4.0 is an SGML profile, but HTML 5 isn’t anymore.

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    Comment #39580411

    They have fixed the image now.

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    Comment #39559965

    For German there is an international body. Regional language differences are officially acknowledged. For example, Swiss High German has no Esszet and in Austria January is spelled…

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    Comment #39460396

    It doesn't work. There is no encoding for "OO".

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    Comment #39426914

    > Microsoft keeps paying the bills For those who may not know it: SPJ was employed at Microsoft Research for a long time. He recently moved to Epic Games, where he co-developed the…

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    Comment #39072923

    Probably because some people find it funny.

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    Comment #38881510

    Because there is no _intent_ to slander.

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    Comment #38795621

    Hijacking the right click is useful for web apps like word processors, text editors, spreadsheets, image editors.

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    Comment #38711443

    Because total dollar cost is dominated by major hurricanes, which are rare, therefore any underlying trend would be invisible under the stochastic noise. Frequency at a moderate se…

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    Comment #38571394

    You also do random audits, to check that the targeting follows the actual risk.

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