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happy friday everybody

tracking a duck and watching him eat a little fishy. for science

these chained up logs are a whole ass mood

ohhh 😭😭😭

this nostalgebraist post is extremely good, please read the whole thing if you would like to understand some things about what exactly is happening when you talk to an LLM tumblr.com/nostalgebraist…

overhearing a friend's online psych class - "positive correlation between two variables X and Y means that when X goes up, then Y goes up" - no! absolutely not! that's not what correlation means in the slightest! is this what people are learning in psych classes???

i don't really know what to do with stuff like this. i read a tweet along these lines a little over a year ago and stopped introspecting for awhile as a result and as far as i can tell it was just incredibly bad for me and i just stalled a process that needed to happen

i too have taken psychedelics and i have seen no compelling evidence that the brain is anything other than a biological computer. people who disbelieve this seem to me to not understand what computers are or what they're capable of

trying to understand some notes by gromov about entropy. does anyone understand the significance of this calculation? there's a hamiltonian torus action on C^n whose moment map recovers the born rule in quantum probability but like... how am i supposed to think about this. wtf

it’s literally just the FYP algorithm on desktop that makes me want to burn the internet to the ground. the FYP algorithm on my ipad is normal and good. wtf. why can’t i have this algo on desktop

does anyone else see ads like this or have the personalization goblins been targeting me specifically real hard

nostalgebraist has written a very, very good post about LLMs. if there is one thing you should read to understand the nature of LLMs as of today, it is this. I'll comment on some things they touched on below (not a summary of the post. Just read it.) 🧵 nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/785766737…

nobody really understands how LLMs work and a big part of why is that gradient descent makes the weights appear out of nowhere. you "train" a neural network by carefully phrasing a wish called a "loss function" and then getting a bunch of GPUs to grant it for you. it's weird!

i have cut my fingers chopping carrots something like 5 times in the last 2 months. it's always carrots. i asked people for tips and improved my technique and it's still happening. anyway here's what this experience taught me about b2b saas

learning some amazing things from going through old papers, like,,, "fortnite is the opposite of donald trump" distill.pub/2021/multimoda…

okay this is also quite good actually: "exercise, sports, and music are the opposite of mental illness"

some of the comments: "this sounds alarmingly like HPPD/schizo-whatever" me: "a lot of this sounds like stuff I've experienced at different points in pregnancy"

type of deep and penetrating insights i'm on about these days