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This may seem to be harmless silliness, but as Joe points out, people are developing LLMs for things like drug dosing, and the goddamn things can’t even read scientific notation.
Training data: “An otherwise healthy adult should take 10^-3 g of drug X”
LLM: Take 7g of drug X.”
Training data: “An otherwise healthy adult should take 10^-3 g of drug X”
LLM: Take 7g of drug X.”
I looked up millisecond pulsars and found really fun and probably generalizable case of LLMs making a mess of things. It’s only off by 6-7 orders of magnitude!
December 3, 2024 at 4:51 AM
This may seem to be harmless silliness, but as Joe points out, people are developing LLMs for things like drug dosing, and the goddamn things can’t even read scientific notation.
Training data: “An otherwise healthy adult should take 10^-3 g of drug X”
LLM: Take 7g of drug X.”
Training data: “An otherwise healthy adult should take 10^-3 g of drug X”
LLM: Take 7g of drug X.”
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Yesterday I got to lay eyes on the one and only Codex Regius Poetic Edda.
This little book is by far the most valuable book in Iceland, and arguably for the whole of Northern Europe. It was written during the 1270s and it is the sole source of so much that we know about Norse Mythology.
This little book is by far the most valuable book in Iceland, and arguably for the whole of Northern Europe. It was written during the 1270s and it is the sole source of so much that we know about Norse Mythology.
November 28, 2024 at 12:01 PM
Yesterday I got to lay eyes on the one and only Codex Regius Poetic Edda.
This little book is by far the most valuable book in Iceland, and arguably for the whole of Northern Europe. It was written during the 1270s and it is the sole source of so much that we know about Norse Mythology.
This little book is by far the most valuable book in Iceland, and arguably for the whole of Northern Europe. It was written during the 1270s and it is the sole source of so much that we know about Norse Mythology.
This is fun: A word cloud from my Google Scholar profile
November 21, 2024 at 10:18 PM
This is fun: A word cloud from my Google Scholar profile
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I consider this one of the most important parables to come out of Twitter’s existence
December 21, 2023 at 7:41 PM
I consider this one of the most important parables to come out of Twitter’s existence
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Human Rights Watch has confirmed that Israel is systematically razing Gazan agricultural space and farmland, with evidence they used the humanitarian pause where they had complete control over North Gaza to bulldoze hundreds of acres of farmland belonging to displaced Palestinians
December 4, 2023 at 7:17 PM
Human Rights Watch has confirmed that Israel is systematically razing Gazan agricultural space and farmland, with evidence they used the humanitarian pause where they had complete control over North Gaza to bulldoze hundreds of acres of farmland belonging to displaced Palestinians
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Honored to write the Rolling Stone obituary for the worst American of the post-World War II era. Rot in piss
Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies
Henry Kissinger has died at age 100, his consulting firm said in a statement on Wednesday.
www.rollingstone.com
November 30, 2023 at 1:59 AM
Honored to write the Rolling Stone obituary for the worst American of the post-World War II era. Rot in piss
Interesting new protein sequencing technique
The hacked the @nanopore sequencer to read amino acids and PTMs along protein strands. This opens up the possibility for barcode sequencing at the protein level for highly multiplexed assays, PTM monitoring, and protein identification 🧬🧪🤯
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Multi-pass, single-molecule nanopore reading of long protein strands with single-amino acid sensitiv...
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www.biorxiv.org
October 21, 2023 at 10:27 PM
Interesting new protein sequencing technique
October 6, 2023 at 10:32 AM