It's important to remember that "technology influencers" can be bad role models. Many encourage people to be "fans of technology" instead of actual developers of technology. Hot takes are easy, writing good code is not.

increasingly becoming a back propagation skeptic

Along similar lines, I think of Hamming's Great Thoughts Time. I put it on my calendar as a joke many, many years ago, and it's had a nice effect.

hypothesis: existing architectures make this sacrifice between factual knowledge and reasoning capability impossible ie no such thing as a strong reasoning model that hallucinates

Why has no one designed a reasoning model without the encyclopedic knowledge? seems like a simple way to get reasoning without all the hallucination issues

if you’re in tech/a computer scientist this is the time to rally & push hard entirely new frontiers waiting to be captured

Calvin McCarter Sichu Lu([email protected]) Semi-Open AI. No, wait, I've got it: ClopenAI. I knew studying topology would come in handy.

most of time your excitement wanes as you go deeper but it has been the opposite here greatest time to be alive if you’re a hacker

What happened to Adept? Remember Adept????? 2022?

if you have an appetite for deep intense work you are already ahead of the field

remember berduck

no such thing as a gullible world class technologist

it’s curious that PG gives good startup advice but is a poor judge of character

everyone’s setting up an RL environments startup it’s on track to be even more insufferable than the vector database companies

this is what the people using the reheated just-get-users-at-any-cost argument from the 2010s miss

openai does excellent work then taints it with easily falsifiable lies i just don’t understand why they would do this they’re already in a position of immense strength

on a break from Twitter for the foreseeable future reachable via usual means

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