Let me be absolutely clear: Pretrained transformers sampled autoregressively will not magically improve at generalization. Not in the next couple of years, not ever! RL is a long road with many hidden bonus levels. Stoics should know Rome wasn't built in a day.

That last line is truly the most damning indictment of our media.

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W&B down, so decided to see what the vibecoding fuss is about. Cursor's authentication page is also down. 🥲 My luck.

+27 -50,030 Nightmare fuel

Oh no...

All these centralised databases of scientific publications, yet these chatbots like to just make up shit about academics' works. There is something deeply wrong with these, and RAG is apparently not enough for it.

BERT is love, everything else is just (de)noise.

I vastly prefer books. People hammer out tutorials in an evening (myself included). Books take hundreds or even thousands of hours between drafts, editing, fact checking, and beta readers.

Folks calling daemon and cron jobs as agents should be made to re-read their reference textbooks on Computer Architecture.

Every day we stray further from the light of Carl Sagan!

🎉 The Call for Papers for the 7th NLLP workshop at EMNLP 2025 is out! 📢 🌐 Fully updated CfP: nllpw.org/workshop/call 🗓️Submission deadline: 26 August 📧If you want to help w/reviewing, drop a line at [email protected] 🚀now, finish that paper #NLProc #legaltech

The adderall has worn off and I’m no longer interested in designing fault tolerant distributed systems. I’m interested in beer

I asked Claude about the vibes of my code, and I got cooked. "I'm following a tutorial but adapting it badly." I should cry myself to sleep. :D

Note to myself: If you write a custom eval loop, always do evaluation first, before starting the training.

After last night's spectacular failure of my evaluation, I got trust issues with my code.

An SBI employee's grave.

I’ve started joining every Google Meet 30 seconds early. When you join early, everyone’s virtual note takers join early too. I spend the first few seconds screaming about how I’m on the Titanic, we’ve just hit an iceberg, the end is near, and I need immediate assistance. I

Someday, I will reach out to someone at X to get an account that has been squatted and has been inactive. I haven't been able to figure out how to do that.