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rajap

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About rajap

Engineer, financial economist, investor, and long-distance runner based in San Francisco.

https://www.rajapatnaik.com/

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    RL algorithms are less bitter-lesson-pilled than 2015-era deep learning

    The real issue isn't reward shaping or curriculum learning - everyone complains about those. The deeper problem is that we're hardcoding the credit assignment timescale into our al…

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    Disconnect between AI capability and public perception thereof

    I am increasingly concerned about the disconnect between the capabilities of AI and the public perception thereof. While GPT-5 has closed that gap somewhat by providing free users …

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    Comment #45118770

    with proper testing you can make suer that given A the returned value is B

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