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sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I may embarrass myself in public, but at least I’ll never “support somebody whose political platform is that the people who put their livelihoods on the line to support me when I was kicked out of my own company shouldn’t legally exist” in public. Absolutely spineless.

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Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random. Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

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sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

News flash: Ethics and Safety for chat-based LLMs DO NOT translate to LLM-based Agents. Ffs people. Think.

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sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

“The ends justify the means” And “Even if you wanted to, you can’t stop us” (2024-2025)

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sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

But what is he getting in return?

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sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Yes, because regime specific access to information is a great idea.

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sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

My definition of TPOT: People who believe they can do anything, but the only thing they ever do is debate each other online.

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sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

1: Omg HAVE YOU SEEN GEMINI 2?!? 2: YES I am Gemini pilled!! Me: Umm yea as it turns out vertical integration works!

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sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The problem with NuerIPS is that it’s cold and full of nerds.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Chain of Thought helped LLMs reason forward through problems. This paper found teaching them to also work backwards (like humans checking their work) makes them even better “reasoners” Applying basic human thinking strategies to LLMs continues to yield interesting new ideas arxiv.org/pdf/2411.19865

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sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Looks up at AI police dog robot standing over him. *record scratch* “Life comes at you fast…”

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Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

OpenAI announced a new RL finetuning API. You can do this on open models w the repo we used to train Tulu 3. Expanding reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards to more domains and with better answer extraction and to more domains in our near roadmap. buff.ly/3V4JEIJ

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sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

For my friends in NY, the trash goes INSIDE the bins.

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sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Remember when San Francisco used to have the pillow fight? We used to be a real city.

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sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I thank god every day that she hasn’t found my shitposting account.

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sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Correlation not equaling causation continues to be a difficult concept for gambling addicts.

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sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

It’s been a long road, full of good discussion points on both sides, but finally, the thought leaders in charge of Safe and Ethical AI have approved its use to vaporize enemy combatants. www.anduril.com/article/andu...

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Andrew White 🐦‍⬛ @andrew.diffuse.one · 03/12/2024

The frequency of sample sizes in published research is not uniform. Here are fraction of sample sizes across research papers, based on google scholar searches. The most popular sample sizes are 10,50, and 100. 79 is the least popular sample size.

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sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Listen to Kate. You don’t want your employers responsible for your activity.

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sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Identifying who is and ain’t a witch as an emergent capability

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sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

POV: The absolute worst person you know just made an excellent point about European regulations… www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil... Ted Cruz - AI Expert

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sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Watching this handwringing over ICLR. Van we please get over this? For those writing papers, seriously don’t worry about it. Unless you’re planning on spending your career in academia ICLR doesn’t matter. If your methods produce and can be replicated is the only metric industry cares about.

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sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

There is nothing lamer than trying to “recreate yourself” with AI. “Oh but I can have my team ask it questions! They’ll get great value from my AI-enabled mentorship!” You’re telling people you don’t have time for them, but that you are also integral to their process. You may be, your ego isn’t.

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sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

BREAKING NEWS: Man who has famously bad relationships with women comes out with new relationship advice for other men.

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sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

MY hammer is aligned to drive nails into wood AND YET my friends is aligned to pry them back out. Who could have seen this coming? Whatever will we do having never once dealt with problematic dual-use technology before now.

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sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This is very thoughtful and well laid out thread. My own (abrupt, and less kind) thoughts: The internet is a live fire zone and by participating in it you are a part of that space. You don’t own the infrastructure. There is no perfect security online - and thus no safe spaces. It’s not your data.

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sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Every Effective Altruist and E/Acc in the Bay Area desperate to talk to me about nano-bots (when we could have been drinking beer and shooting pool) is what changed my mind on horseshoe theory.

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sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty AI Researcher: The academic journal and conference paper submission and review process is degrading, why must it be so?

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sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

One more AI/ML/artist starter-pack bro, I swear just one more bro, there’s so many people I had to split it up into four parts, just one more for real, so much good content-creators.

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sparse @mostlyzeros.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

“This LLM ain’t shit.”

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