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    Not a core paper, but I found Formal Algorithms for Transformers [1] (a Google paper from 2022) to have a great pedagogical style. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.09238

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    Skim is amazing, I've never had it crash on large documents or with keyword searches as Preview almost always does. Also has a great note-taking system for scientific / academic wo…

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    Comment #44564140

    That's a fair critique, although I think you could mitigate that by decreasing the desired arclength - reducing Del S to 0.5 from 0.85 in your example mostly fixes the problem. In …

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    Yeah, you put it better than I did - I'm not secretly raining an LLM lol. I'm not really interested in changing my information diet to help me follow the news, but I feel like I'm …

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    Ask HN: How do you find and consume content online?

    I don't actively use social media (Reddit, X or Bluesky), but I'm wondering if it's even possible to discover new content through any other source. The best I've been able to do is…

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    Comment #40736297

    Are classical machine learning techniques that don't involve neural networks / DL not considered "learning-based systems" anymore? I would argue that even something as simple as li…

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    Comment #40494221

    The causes of homelessness are a little more complex than that, at least in the US: https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/blog/vacancies-are-red-herring

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    Comment #40340045

    I think the dumbfoundedness didn't arise from the inherent quality of the music, but his shock at the fact that five people in England didn't know who the Beatles were. That said, …

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    Comment #40329232

    This indeed seems to have been a heavy focus of their research team in the past year, eg. "Efficient Large Language Model Inference with Limited Memory" [1] and OpenELM [2] [1] htt…

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    Comment #40329202

    The licences for open-source models are generally designed to restrict this kind of usage by big tech. See the "Additional commercial terms" of the Llama 2 licence, for example: > …

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    I'm not the OP, but recently, YouTube has started adding an automatic summary below videos. Before that, they also started adding automatic chapter titles, which, in my experience,…

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    Comment #38654485

    This is only true in the western world. Globally, education has been trending upwards, at least until the pandemic. What is happening is a noticeable decline in the levels of trust…

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    Comment #38412568

    Yes, but in the vast majority of cases, it's hard to tell just by reading a paper if there's been dishonesty somewhere in the pipeline. Also, the LK-99 example is an exception, not…

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    Comment #38342892

    ChatGPT Plus was never intended to be OpenAI's main revenue stream. The real cash is in the GPT API, which they're currently making good money on, but which also directly competes …

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    Comment #36470721

    One useful trick to avoid some of the pitfalls of ChatGPT for non-creative tasks is to respond to its output with something like: _"Point out incorrect assumptions or statements in…

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    Comment #36470573

    Yeah, it's extremely common for people to be extremely prolific programmers in high school, without having much knowledge of foundational computer science or algorithm concepts. So…

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    Dropbox Paper should meet your requirements. I tried switching to it a few years ago, but the problem is that the other people I'm collaborating with always want to use Google Docs…