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A friend once told me that virtue is like going to the gym. You practice daily, start with smaller weights (virtuous acts), and review how well you did on a regular basis. You ask …

Thank you for the pointer!

Are these companies developing InfiniBand-class interconnects to pair with their custom chips? Without equivalent fabric, they can’t replace NVIDIA GPUs for large-scale training.

One fun trick for this is to commit to writing a check to a non profit you dislike / would be embarrassed by if you don't complete your task.

STEM often overlooks the fundamental work that was done in philosophy that led to breakthroughs within STEM. For example, Claude Shannon's undergraduate philosophy course is what t…

I wrote up a short post on large language model scaling laws. Let me know what you think!

Hmm, yea, I agree with you on several points. For one, we don't fully understand the internal mechanisms of LLMs. I'm also with you on Markov chains and autocomplete tools not havi…

Japan =) Here's the original: https://basho-yamadera.com/en/yamadera/horohoro/

What would an LLM have to do to convince you it was good at math? Check out this recent post by OpenAI where one of their models is solving 60%+ of problems from a high school math…

Author here. First off, thank you for reading and for your thoughts. I provided examples that I thought would be intuitive for humans to help folks understand that an understanding…

A guide for the non-technical