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I think it’s AI-generated. Still made me smile.

If the government audited the company's tax records and disagreed that the fiber bars should've been expensed, they'd most likely charge tax, interest, and a penalty proportional t…

The problem is that 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality is too big to be explained solely by the vaccine. The reduction is similar when excluding deaths due to COVID-19, and is p…

If you're not on social media, you might be missing part of what has changed people's minds. Social media is the biggest consumer-facing technological innovation of the last two de…

Per https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-c... , it looks like the FDA is unhappy that Cue did something to identify whether the cartridge went outside of the …

Also BERT was integrated into Google search in 2019 (see https://blog.google/products/search/search-language-understa... )

There's nothing super-special about the host. The accelerators are the special part (and, as described elsewhere, they are orders of magnitude more powerful than the Edge TPU). How…

A single TPUv2 host has 8 TPU cores with 64GB of total HBM (8GB per core), but like GPUs, TPUs can't directly access a network, so the host also needs CPUs and standard RAM to send…

According to the paper, "the success of our attack when applied to Claude may be lowered owing to what appears to be an initial content filter applied to the text prior to evaluati…

In ML, no one is going to police your citation list. I've cited some weird stuff in my papers, including ideas from tweets and random quotes from Jeff Dean. It's never been a probl…

It's interesting, because as a scientist who reads and writes these kinds of papers, my first impression was: This guy has a pretty big ego or is otherwise badly miscalibrated if h…

Yes, there are more obese and elderly people now than there were in 1957. No, we can't "adjust" death numbers to place less weight on the deaths of those obese and elderly people i…

If this is true ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_preferences#Economic_im... suggests it's disputed), the effect is probably marginal, and in any case, Harvard has the largest…

At some point in high school, I realized that the reason I was unhappy was that I was suppressing my feelings and ignoring what they were telling me. Instead, I needed to learn how…

There are two steps to building a conversational LLM. The first is pretraining on an enormous amount of text. The second is fine-tuning, which usually involves a combination of a s…

It means that the market believes they are unlikely to be on the hook for that amount, or else the market cap would be near-zero. Given 3M's current profits, assets, and liabilitie…

Excess deaths are the number of deaths above the expected number of deaths. The expected number of deaths usually comes from a model that takes into account how the number of death…

I know that there are many people at OpenAI who worry about the risks posed by AI and support real regulation to mitigate these risks. That said, given that Sam Altman’s position o…

I guess my hope was that I could get people who disagree with my views to engage substantively with them by hinting that I have sufficient knowledge to weigh in here. However, that…

I’m not sure I understand what you’re getting at. It doesn’t seem hard for a top AI lab to get extremely detailed data regarding how top AI researchers perform research. It’s proba…

For the best AI researchers, creating better AI systems takes only time and compute. If we can create systems with the ability to do anything at the level of the best human, as Jac…

I work for Google Brain. I remember meeting Brian at a conference and I have nothing but good things to say about him. That said, I think Brian is underestimating the extent to whi…

Nope, Llion Jones is still at Google.