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Do Not Rush
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Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Neither of these tweets are real. @Chiquita is the official account for the produce company and @ChiquitaBrands has been inactive since 2013. twitter.com/Chiquita twitter.com/ChiquitaBrands
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Well, that was me being dumb. it was a call from 2017 that Michael Lewis would write a crypto book. but nobody will believe that now.
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use your life force well probably no one ever dies wishing they'd spent more time being angry on the internet, or obsessing about the scandal of the hour
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I'm quote-tweeting myself from yesterday for emphasis.
The cartoonish tom-fuckery of the whole defi crypto-gonif complex takes your breath away.
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We've got a message.
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There is a scammer impersonating me @chaselochmiiier. They changed the last two “L”‘s in my last name to capital “i”‘s so that the user name would look the same. Pretty clever actually! Please ignore them if they reach out and report them!
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This ranking of universities looks roughly correct. The big mistake in the article is the claim that the higher ranked universities are better at "producing" founders. pitchbook.com/news/articles/…
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Reason #37 to move to Israel: today is just October 31.
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Research suggests that people who use their phones for two or more hours on weekdays are at a heightened risk of depression and other psychological issues: sciencedirect.com/science/ar… You'll never hear the Phone, OS & App creators talk about this, wonder why...
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Even Elon can't escape. “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.”
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The opportunity cost of not learning AI is very high.
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Global Population Density
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I wish you a great weekend! Take it easy.
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After building on years of work from MILA, DeepMind, ourselves, and others, our AIs are now expert-human-level in no-press Diplomacy and Hanabi! Unlike Go and Dota, Diplomacy/Hanabi involve *cooperation*, which breaks naive RL. arxiv.org/abs/2210.05492 arxiv.org/abs/2210.05125 🧵👇
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Escape. - Art by John Holcroft.
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This ignores a huge body of work. We have seen new abilities emerge with every new SOTA language model. New abilities will keep emerging. BIG-Bench claims to target weaknesses of language models, and 540B PaLM beat avg. human rater on more than half just by scaling.
There is 0 reason to expect that language models will achieve "near-human performance on language and reasoning tasks" except in a world where these tasks are artificially molded to to what language models can do while being misleadingly named after what humans do.
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Very few things matter as much as friendships. Was reminded of this again this evening. Try to take care of your friends, it's worth it.
I met an old friend today, i had not seen in over 10 years. Yet, it was joyful as if not a single day had passed. So many things scream for our attention everyday, but very few matter as much as friendships. samim.io/p/2020-12-30-friend…
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