Lucas Baker

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has it occurred to you that we are all stochastic parrots, in chinese rooms, trained on the test set

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there is nothing google research can build that google management cannot destroy

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what homeownership was to the boomers, compute ownership will be to us

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Reminder: Pooh is now public domain and GPT knows it

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now see, rule 4 here is what you call a regularization term

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when i was an undergrad CS student, the "rubber ducky" was a very common debugging technique (explain your problems to an inanimate object to better understand them yourself) it's been a brave new world since the rubber duckies started talking back

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can't wait for the gpt-5 <=> sora agentic feedback loop to replace hollywood

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ml is absolutely the most grug-brained field of research pick magic parameters, check results, maybe add gallbladder of toad, repeat at scale mostly this is a good thing

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til the original aladdin has a post-credits scene the original! in 1992!

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the dark secret of book reviews is that no one actually reads the book however replete with details the review may be, once you actually start reading you will invariably find them all in the first 20 pages

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a billion tokens is not cool. you know what's cool? 8 trillion tokens

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Self-invalidating sentences: statements that, if true, becomes false as soon as they are declared. For instance, "I am a Straussian."

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It occurs to me with the Emsam discussion that self-medication is both asymmetric downside and adversely selected: you can do more severe harm than good, and the more you need it, the less likely you are to make the right judgment calls. This can be countered by methodological rigor, but I suspect few manage it well.

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https://i.imgur.com/LAiR7xF.jpg

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We live in the most savage timeline

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Shoulder angel: You know, attending just one fewer conference per year would save vastly more carbon than you do by recycling. Shoulder devil: Pick a conference not to go to, call it "conference credits," and stop recycling.

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When you offer yield in someone else's currency, that's an interest rate. When you offer yield risk-free in your protocol's native token, that's just inflation.

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Based on the Twitter aftermath so far, I'm back in the market for a Tesla.

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There is no hell like dependency hell.

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"Pay it forward" is just another way of saying that we're all playing one big game of iterated prisoner's dilemma, and the best way to find the cooperators is tit-for-tat. https://i.imgur.com/NNNBvs6.jpg

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