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Paper review: SSRL - Self-Search Reinforcement Learning
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November 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Paper review: SSRL - Self-Search Reinforcement Learning
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Beware of Musk's chatbot, Grok
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Beware of Musk's chatbot, Grok
Elon Musk bought Twitter and used it to help elect Trump. He also controls a popular chatbot, which he might use to exert political influence when he needs to.
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March 31, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Beware of Musk's chatbot, Grok
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Reposted
I rarely tell people to throw their devices into the sea, but you should throw your Amazon Echo into the sea.
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www.wired.com/story/everyt...
Everything You Say to Your Echo Will Soon Be Sent to Amazon, and You Can’t Opt Out
Amazon is killing its “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” privacy feature on March 28 as the company aims to bolster Alexa+, its new subscription assistant.
www.wired.com
March 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I rarely tell people to throw their devices into the sea, but you should throw your Amazon Echo into the sea.
www.wired.com/story/everyt...
www.wired.com/story/everyt...
They are selling dollars for 69 cents now.
Back in October 2024 we posted about the US presidential election probabilities and if someone took the gamble, it backfired. To make up for it, here’s a new tip.
Back in October 2024 we posted about the US presidential election probabilities and if someone took the gamble, it backfired. To make up for it, here’s a new tip.
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March 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
They are selling dollars for 69 cents now.
Back in October 2024 we posted about the US presidential election probabilities and if someone took the gamble, it backfired. To make up for it, here’s a new tip.
Back in October 2024 we posted about the US presidential election probabilities and if someone took the gamble, it backfired. To make up for it, here’s a new tip.
Qwen has a new model they say can rival Deepseek. Anyway, always a pleasure using a Chinese model.
March 5, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Qwen has a new model they say can rival Deepseek. Anyway, always a pleasure using a Chinese model.
It seems like Anthropic is targeting software development as its market niche. Makes sense, software development is currently the only solid, popular, and productive use of LLMs besides question answering a search engine wrapper.
March 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
It seems like Anthropic is targeting software development as its market niche. Makes sense, software development is currently the only solid, popular, and productive use of LLMs besides question answering a search engine wrapper.
We need a new version of the PDF format which stores original text alongside the view/print version, to be machine readable.
Twenty years ago this could be considered too expensive in terms of storage and network costs, today these costs are basically nothing.
Twenty years ago this could be considered too expensive in terms of storage and network costs, today these costs are basically nothing.
March 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We need a new version of the PDF format which stores original text alongside the view/print version, to be machine readable.
Twenty years ago this could be considered too expensive in terms of storage and network costs, today these costs are basically nothing.
Twenty years ago this could be considered too expensive in terms of storage and network costs, today these costs are basically nothing.
You can now talk about each post on fastml.com with a chatbot. It's below the article. Tell it TLDR or ELI5 or whatever you want. It even knows how many letters R are in the word "strawberry"!
February 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
You can now talk about each post on fastml.com with a chatbot. It's below the article. Tell it TLDR or ELI5 or whatever you want. It even knows how many letters R are in the word "strawberry"!
Here's a weird question. Why does the BBC article say $6.2M while in the embedded video one can clearly hear and see $5.2M?
Duct-taped banana artwork auctioned for $6.2m in New York
The winning bidder says he will eat the banana in coming days as part of a "unique artistic experience".
www.bbc.com
November 21, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Here's a weird question. Why does the BBC article say $6.2M while in the embedded video one can clearly hear and see $5.2M?
Interactive Linear Algebra, UBC edition (online, PDF available):
personal.math.ubc.ca/~tbjw/ila/in...
personal.math.ubc.ca/~tbjw/ila/in...
Front Matter
personal.math.ubc.ca
November 21, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Interactive Linear Algebra, UBC edition (online, PDF available):
personal.math.ubc.ca/~tbjw/ila/in...
personal.math.ubc.ca/~tbjw/ila/in...
Threads is a study in wasted opportunities. You would think that a company that runs Facebook and Instagram would easily be able to run a Twitter clone. NOPE.
Despite a massive head start, BlueSky has now overtaken Threads in the US 👇
November 20, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Threads is a study in wasted opportunities. You would think that a company that runs Facebook and Instagram would easily be able to run a Twitter clone. NOPE.