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AI sci-fi doomsday scenarios exist to misrepresent what modern software is capable of, and spook lawmakers into embracing terrible laws, written by rich and terrible men, that will free them from oversight, ethics, and accountability.
Musings on EPROM access.
Saying that LLMs are just next token predictors is underselling these beasts to a mind numbing degree.First, LLMs aren’t just predicting the next token. They plan ahead – the loss function is the average of cross entropy across all...
A single warm, individuated human beside a vast field of identical mass-produced AI units/images/customization-beats-competence.webp/images/customization-beats-competence.webp I'm increasingly rating the AI we're all chasing on a few...
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. – Samuel Johnson Study hard what interests you in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible. – Richard Feynmann When I am in control of my...
Plans and ideas for the summer
Got a note from Joe Salerno, checking to make sure I’m not actually leading the Dashiell Hammett Tour any more. Sorry, no. My big excuse — and it’s the truth — I aged out. I realized at any point something … Continue reading →
Our family climbed to the top of the Crazy Horse Memorial for the 40th anniversary of the Volksmarch! We’d wanted to since we first moved to the Black Hills, but this was the first year we thought the boys could finish the 10km roundtrip.
When I first met my wife, around seven years ago, she was what I would call a typical internet user. She was glued to Facebook and Pinterest and spent a lot of time curating her feeds and her image. She wasn't an influencer, but having...
I keep worrying that the upcoming Apple Intelligence/Siri will come with an additional subscription. Then they will “save you money” by bundling it with your Apple One.
A while back, I mentioned that I suspected my problems with variable astigmatism (my vision being blurrier some days than others) had something to do with my use of ibuprofen as well as dry eyes, and when I discontinued taking ibuprofen...