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by maxutility 3y ago
Article says there is compelling but contested “smoking gun” evidence in favor of both lab leak and zoonotic/wet market origin theories (only one of which can be the actual origin), including new elaboration of details about infections
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Has Covid’s Patient Zero Finally Been Named?(theatlantic.com)
9 points by maxutility 3y ago|3 comments
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The Government Must Say What It Knows About Covid’s Origins(nytimes.com)
7 points by maxutility 3y ago|0 comments
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by maxutility 3y ago
From the article: > The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, argued that Amazon had “duped millions of consumers” into enrolling in Prime by using “manipulative, coercive or deceptive” design tact
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FTC Sues Amazon for Tricking Users into Subscribing to Prime(nytimes.com)
7 points by maxutility 3y ago|1 comments
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Car-Rental Companies Are Ruining EVs(theatlantic.com)
2 points by maxutility 3y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Secure way to send/access a document to/on a public computer?
2 points by maxutility 3y ago|2 comments
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by maxutility 3y ago
Interesting. Does the decision to use ALiBi have to be done before the model weights are first trained, or is there a way that these models could have incorporated ALiBi instead or in addition to an alternate positional encoding method to A
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Elon Musk has picked new CEO for Twitter(washingtonpost.com)
6 points by maxutility 3y ago|1 comments
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by maxutility 3y ago
I don’t see this in the article. Has Anthropic explained the mechanism by which they were able to cost-effectively expand the context window, and whether there was additional training or a design decision (e.g. alternative positional embedd
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The Inferno of the Nerds(aiascendant.substack.com)
2 points by maxutility 4y ago|0 comments
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by maxutility 4y ago
Useful overview on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jlowin/status/1641155964601548802?s=46&t... > We're open-sourcing @AskMarvinAI to make it easy to build AI-powered software! > Marvin introduces AI Fu
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Ask Marvin – AI Functions in Python(askmarvin.ai)
3 points by maxutility 4y ago|1 comments
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The biggest problem in media is the audience(slowboring.com)
2 points by maxutility 4y ago|0 comments
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The Kottke.org Ask Me Anything(kottke.org)
1 points by maxutility 4y ago|0 comments
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by maxutility 4y ago
Not a LLM-expert, but here are three theories in descending order: 1. Quantization (e.g. fewer bits per weight) 2. Optimization to dedicated hardware 3. (Speculative) pruning of parameters to get comparable performance with a smaller model
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by maxutility 4y ago
This is a very intriguing explanation of observed “bad” behavior by Bing/Sydney, the effectiveness of GPT jailbreaks, and a somewhat compelling argument that it is hard-to-impossible to truly align a LLM and maintain that alignment thr
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Cuboid skyscraper “big enough to hold 20 Empire State Buildings”(newatlas.com)
4 points by maxutility 4y ago|0 comments
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The AI Disaster Scenario(theatlantic.com)
3 points by maxutility 4y ago|0 comments
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Lab leak is not a debunked conspiracy theory and never has been(slowboring.com)
25 points by maxutility 4y ago|2 comments
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Jason Kottke: Ask Me Anything(kottke.org)
8 points by maxutility 4y ago|0 comments
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What’s our Problem? A (Wait but Why?) self-help book for societies(waitbutwhy.com)
2 points by maxutility 4y ago|0 comments
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The Death of the Smart Shopper(theatlantic.com)
5 points by maxutility 4y ago|0 comments
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H3: New generative language model that can outperform Transformers(twitter.com)
2 points by maxutility 4y ago|0 comments
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Psychedelics open your brain. You might not like what falls in(theatlantic.com)
3 points by maxutility 4y ago|1 comments
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by maxutility 4y ago
> This approach, which we call DetectGPT, does not require training a separate classifier, collecting a dataset of real or generated passages, or explicitly watermarking generated text. It uses only log probabilities computed by the mode
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Cistercian Numerals(kottke.org)
140 points by maxutility 4y ago|51 comments
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by maxutility 4y ago
Craig Mazin, the screenwriter of HBO's Chernobyl and the Last of Us series, once gave an awesome 45 minute lecture on his ScriptNotes podcast titled “How to write a movie,” in which he walks through how he thinks of storytelling and st
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by maxutility 4y ago
I found this article on “transformers from scratch”[0] to be a perfect (for me) middle ground between high level hand-wavy explanations and overly technical in-the-weeds academic or code treatments. [0] https://e2eml.school/
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Google’s new AI turns text into music(theverge.com)
1 points by maxutility 4y ago|0 comments

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