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Friday, September 22, 2023

Four-year renovation of an abandoned Japanese farmhouse [time-lapse]

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Is an AI chill on the horizon?

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Called it. https://t.co/IZLLKFgxhD — Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) September 22, 2023 Yeah, he called it. I just wish he weren't so damne...

Friday Fotos: What the hey? [Hoboken all the way]

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Better at chess, still sucks at planning [look at the red box]

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The new GPT3.5 completion version and the claims on its chess prowess caught my students' attention--and they tested to see if it got be...
Thursday, September 21, 2023

AI systems as infrastructure, infrastructure as open source

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AI systems are fast becoming a basic infrastructure. Historically, basic infrastructure always ends up being open source (think of the softw...

Are we feeling queasy yet?

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Chain-of-verification for LLMs reduces hallucination

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- LLMs like ChatGPT & Llama are prone to hallucinate in longform generation - Our method generates short questions that check facts in t...

A quick remark on so-called “hallucinations” in LLMs and humans

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That LLMs “hallucinate” is well-known, though I prefer the term “confabulate.” They just make stuff up. They don’t do it intentionally, or ...

Abandoned dreams

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Addicted to Disneyland? You aren't the only one. [Something's rotten in the state of Denmark]

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Daryl Austin, The scientific reason why you can’t stop going to Disneyland , Los Angeles Times , Sept. 19, 2023. Travel craving: Tho...
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Ancient wood-working, almost 500 kya

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These ancient whittled logs could be the earliest known wooden structure https://t.co/yeBioOP3q7 — Bill Benzon, BAM! Bootstrapping Artificia...

I'm feeling like flowers

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Notes on ChatGPT’s “memory” for strings and for events

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[Updated on Sept. 21 and 26, 2023] Here I take a look at the results reported in three previous posts and begin the job of making sense of t...

Jump and Kong discussing techbro hubris while hanging out at the mall waiting to board the Starship

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Live Forever! This is one MoFo of an anxiety management routine [TechBros gotta' do what a TechBro gotsta to do]

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Charlotte Alter, The Man Who Thinks He Can Live Forever , Time , September 20, 2023. Johnson, 46, is a centimillionaire tech entreprene...