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by mbbbackus 2y ago
I've been reading the author's book, Mathematica, and it's awesome. The title of this post doesn't do it justice. He shows that math skill is almost more like a sports talent than it is knowledge talent. He claims this b
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by mbbbackus 2y ago
Location: Washington D.C. Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Typescript, React, Node, Django, SQL Resume: https://benback.us/static/media/Backus_Resume.de670ddec52d5d... Email: mbbbackus@gmail.com Portfolio: b
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by mbbbackus 2y ago
Currently in the same boat! When you say beta readers, do you mean other friends/writers or like people on twitter
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ChatGPT has been down for an hour(windowscentral.com)
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by mbbbackus 3y ago
I live in the part of Arlington that this article talks about the most and it's so fascinating to learn about the history of how the area got developed. It really does feel like the county has nailed the the development of Ballston and
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by mbbbackus 3y ago
Good point. You can create a formal definition of hallucinations in formal language, like math and logic, but probably not for natural language. There are bound to be edge cases where natural language defies the rules of formal logic withou
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by mbbbackus 3y ago
Really excited to see if this approach can help reduce hallucinations overall. Process supervision combined with the browsing models could drastically improve how logically sound anything that's generated is. Creating consistently vali
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by mbbbackus 3y ago
Best article I've read on here in a while. From now on, whenever there's dead air in a conversation, I'm just gonna drop "I get weirded out when couples treat their dogs like babies." Also, this is great for relatio
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by mbbbackus 4y ago
In my experience, the commitment to read every day is more important than how much. If I’m in a spacey mood, I can still power through a page in a meaningful way. Plus, sometimes I’ll get momentum from that and then the next few pages will