We looked at some things in the quarry and then at one point we were walking across the quarry floors and my eye unconsciously picked up a pattern. I wasn't even looking down, but I caught sight of a small part of a poorly-infilled runnel that looked like a little shallow gutter in the rocks on the floor.
LLMs strategy for mathematical reasoning looks unlike retrieval from the parametric knowledge formed during pretraining. Instead, the models learn to apply procedural knowledge extracted from documents involving similar reasoning processes
True Names uses metaphors borrowed from fantasy novels and role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. Vinge described computer hackers as warlocks and witches, organizing themselves in covens, and casting spells instead of running programs. It’s easy to imagine an alternate present, in which True Names’ fantasy metaphors provided the underlying theme for cyberpunk and our understanding of the metaverse, instead of science fiction.
The FBI obtained what it says are notes on one propaganda image allegedly created by Said and which The Nightmare tore apart because it had so many design elements that it was not very legible or effective as a piece of propaganda, and suggested that Said should both simplify it and add blood effects to parts of it to better get the point across.
Trust thermoclines are so dangerous for businesses to cross because there are few ways back once a breach has been made, even if the issue is recognized. Consumers will not return to a product that has breached the thermocline unless significant time has passed, even if it means adopting an alternative product that until recently they felt was significantly inferior.
The fate of the IRA will be an issue next year with the scheduled expiration of parts of the 2017 Trump tax cuts bill. Trump will presumably want to extend those tax cuts. Congress will be looking for ways to pay for this. Slashing IRA subsidies could be part of that.
How many beings can we love at once? How many will we allow to love us in return? But this kind of love isn’t one bit safe. I can feel already the grief of her going.
“I intend to get hotter and weirder,” my best friend Max Fractal told me. That’s the best revenge. Everything is fucked. It’s all a ruin. The stars still shine all the same.
Many environmentalists have completely misjudged this issue. As less and less of taxpayer’s money goes to farmers, the Government has less and less leverage over how they run their businesses, and less right to ask anything of them beyond pursuing their own self-interest.
When Amstrad launched its word processor 30 years ago, writers were initially resistant – processing was for peas, not words. But many soon saw the benefits of life without Tipp-Ex
maybe LLMs sort of have little “chess subnetworks” hidden inside of them, but the size of the subnetworks depends on the fraction of data that was chess.
“I’m probably the first secretary of state that is dealing with companies which are outspending our entire British state when it comes to investment in innovation. So let’s just act with a bit of sense of humility. We are having to apply a sense of statecraft to working with companies that we’ve in the past reserved for dealing with other states.”
For the second time this year an oarfish, a rarely seen deep sea fish that has historically been considered a harbinger of doom, washed up on the California coastline.