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I know even less about me than you do.
Every actor dies two deaths, one when they leave this mortal coil, and one when someone types their name into an IMDB query for the very last time.
November 23, 2024 at 6:41 PM
"Real Magic." AI-generated.

The disconnect is remarkable.
There's something I need people to understand.

The studio that made this released some numbers. They had to produce 85 minutes of footage to find 15 usable seconds for this ad.

The machine that creates moving images out of nothing has a failure rate of 340:1 and the best 15 seconds... is this.
Coca-Cola’s newest Christmas commercial was made using AI.
November 22, 2024 at 1:51 AM
"Airlines for America said the rule would confuse consumers by giving them too much information."
Delta CEO says the Trump administration will reverse government 'overreach' seen under Biden
The chief executive of Delta Air Lines says the incoming Trump administration will be a “breath of fresh air” for airlines after what he called government “overreach” under President Joe Biden.
apnews.com
November 22, 2024 at 1:48 AM
"a reverse recommendation system for pathogens" is a hell of a way to describe an immune system / immunoresponse.
I like the idea of a reverse recommendation system for pathogens:
People who do not recommend norovirus also do not recommend rotavirus and cholera.
I do not recommend norovirus.
November 21, 2024 at 2:11 AM
This was uninteresting until walking into the pop-in brick wall that was the word 'against'. A genuinely fascinating finding regarding generative AI mathematical reasoning.
How do LLMs learn to reason from data? Are they ~retrieving the answers from parametric knowledge🦜? In our new preprint, we look at the pretraining data and find evidence against this:

Procedural knowledge in pretraining drives LLM reasoning ⚙️🔢

🧵⬇️
November 21, 2024 at 2:01 AM
In case you're scrolling my feed looking for a reason to hate or mock me: I believe Biden has made the irredeemable choice to materially support genocide in Israel for bad geopolitical reasons, and yet I voted for Harris, knowing she was unlikely to break with that support. Hold it against me.
November 21, 2024 at 1:35 AM
I've only had my avatar uploaded for like fifteen seconds and I already miss the default-options pink spaceship thingy.
November 21, 2024 at 1:28 AM
You can hope to make sense to some of the people all of the time, and maybe to all of the people some of the time, but you can't make sense to all of the people all of the time. All the rules for fooling people also apply to being understood.
November 21, 2024 at 1:10 AM
Hello, world. First new social media presence in about a decade. Please be gentle. (Or don't.)
November 21, 2024 at 1:08 AM
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November 19, 2024 at 3:01 PM