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here's some posts about my humdrum life
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yeah it's been a wild ride for the whole field I think
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current models are capable of reasoning! they are not just regurgitating the input. I never would have said that would happen within a decade then
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Bayesian methods were the future, over fitting was important, real intelligence was decades off of possible at all
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basically everything I believed circa 2014 was wrong! neat
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there's a grab bag of techniques for specific tasks but it is all tribal knowledge and I wouldn't call it rigorous
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that's cool man
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posting does not need to be praxis, for Posting is already praxis
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yeah they are going for it imo
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man
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yeah the decline of the american project was kicked off by the Simpsons
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I just drink a tall glass of grapeseed oil
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maybe he'll rise to the challenge of being president. nine years after first being elected and well into his second term. maybe it will happen now. these takes and more in my new NYT column
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many of us cut our teeth trying to make the weirdest people alive laugh a bit online
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not if you have a gun
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the quoted post was a sincere "you cannot be a leftist if you use generative AI" and I took it from there
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You cannot be a leftist and have a life. The two are incompatible.
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ten bucks
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sardines light the way
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HARD AGREE RE: BLOBS
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mainlining schadenfreude atm
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ok good luck boss
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yes dad's advice that is what I meant
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X files MOTW episodes from early seasons
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correct according to the original paper. however, subsequent work demonstrated that dishonest actors can collude and take over with less than half of the hash power
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under what conditions does the network converge to the honest transaction chain?
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I implemented the bitcoin transaction virtual machine independently lol
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yeah pretty wild to think about how that is peanuts compared to the capital required to develop and train state of the art LLMs