"LLMs need an insane amount of text. Dessa learned language from hundreds of times fewer words (in fairness, LLMs also have to learn C++ and whatever the hell Angular is)."
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"Ordinarily this would be hopeless. You can’t just try 2384 exponents. But someone thought to test whether the keys were horrifically bad, and they were right."
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/10/21/emudhra/
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Do you _see_ an apple?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-happens-in-a-mind-that-cant-see-mental-images-20240801/
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"Stochastic terrorism is a specific type of extremist violence that occurs when an environment has “othered” a population or individual to a significant enough extent that results in subsequent violence against them, Eric K. Ward, senior advisor to the Western States Center, told Insider."
https://www.businessinsider.com/stochastic-terrorism-meaning-definition-form-of-extremist-political-violence-2022-11
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"In 2021, 5% of the population accounted for nearly half of all health spending... 50% of the population with lowest total health spending accounted for only 3% of all health spending... 14% of the population had $0 in health expenditures"
https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-expenditures-vary-across-population/
