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by adw 7d ago
Fidji Simo has well documented chronic health issues so there’s no reason to assume that the ostensible and actual reasoning are far apart there.
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by adw 11d ago
The famous levitating frog guy has the double; one Nobel, one IgNobel.
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by adw 13d ago
Schools use it!
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by adw 13d ago
The Noah Smith/Nate Silver axis of opinion-politics writers are — literally — Stephen J Smith and Skip Bayless for people who think politics is sports. They're in the entertainment business.
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by adw 13d ago
There are many examples; k12.<state>.us is another.
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by adw 29d ago
The implication (given that the US is an outlier here) is that prevention is much better than cure here; that means reform of healthcare and social housing so people are less likely to wind up in that trap.
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by adw 1mo ago
> Yet IPv6 hasn’t been adopted. news to literally anyone on a mobile internet connection (which is most internet connections!)
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by adw 2mo ago
What is the error rate of human programmers? Anyone who tells you that either human or A.I. code is magically exempt from issues is selling you something.
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by adw 2mo ago
Other post-train mechanisms have meaningful bandwidth for introducing new information to the model (on-policy distillation is more or less the other extreme). RLVR aligns the model to particular behaviors it could already (unreliably, inter
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by adw 2mo ago
This paper is less dramatic than you think it is and really just re-explains what RLVR does. Let's stipulate that what pretraining does is train next token prediction over a gigantic corpus. You can then sample from this distribution r
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by adw 2mo ago
She went to UCL which is also a tier one university, though.
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by adw 2mo ago
One of the coolest things about seeing a show at the Fillmore is getting the posters they hand out. A number of bands sell, or have their artists, sell show posters (which then become collectible limited editions); it's way less offens
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by adw 2mo ago
I mean, they kind of have, but mostly by finding an infinite money glitch.
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by adw 2mo ago
They’re skint too. It’s something you would really like the research council to take on.
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by adw 2mo ago
The living-costs stipend for an EPSRC PhD student is around £20k so it's about ten percent of that... big commitment for a student to make!
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by adw 2mo ago
The usual answer is "config macros", because if you don't give people something Turing complete they'll just m4 their way into Turing completeness and that isn't really an improvement. (Starlark in Bazel, etc.)
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by adw 2mo ago
Another intuition is that near a minimum you can Taylor expand the function and show that the higher order coefficients (past the square) are negligible.
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by adw 3mo ago
It is common for big workplaces to have multiple unions and essentially all unions are sectoral and role-specific rather than company specific. Take the NHS; it will have to deal with ten plus separate unions - https://nhsunions.
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by adw 3mo ago
> you cannot go to a bank and ask them to help you acquire something 100x worth your cap. you literally can, it's the entire point of eg management buyouts
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by adw 3mo ago
It's just an acronym, "parameter-efficient fine tuning". LoRA is one method, prefix tuning is another, there are more.
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by adw 3mo ago
> So much precision is required that session musicians are playing most of the things you hear, not the actual artists. In pop music this has been true since the 60s. For independent music it has mostly never been true. This hasn't
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by adw 3mo ago
Leverage. They’re essentially an 80s style junk bond LBO house.
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by adw 4mo ago
kexp.org in Seattle and San Francisco for a start.
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by adw 4mo ago
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/machine-learning-stree... is a pretty good primer on METR, what it measures, and its limitations.
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by adw 4mo ago
arXiV is not intended to be your blog. You should be held to a zero-mistake standard when publishing academic work. The people I worry for are the junior researchers who are going to be splash damage for dishonest PIs. The PIs, though, dese
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by adw 5mo ago
You are forgetting the albums KG and LW which are both microtonal. I knew exactly what you were saying :-)
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by adw 5mo ago
You’ve got nine years of experience, so work your network and get referrals. It’s very hard to get mid-career jobs through the front door; most people want someone they trust to vouch for you.
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by adw 5mo ago
Bunch of Balkan and Turkish music has quarter tones too. (And you’re forgetting KG and LW…)
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by adw 5mo ago
He did a stupid thing. Doesn’t make him stupid, but the action is. (Also this is a stock phrase.)
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by adw 5mo ago
When you’re staffing work to a junior, though, often it’s the opposite.

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