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Large Language Models (LLMs) are great when their needs are met: Need 1. Can consistently get relevant, well-formatted context for their inference Need 2. Can consistently output text w.r.t. an input schema Need 3. Are offered a sandboxed code execution environment Need 4. Are subject to human review;
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The singular goal of government, implicit until now, is to design and protect a structure where there is no distinction between the rational and the hyper-rational. Definitions * Rational Action: A single agent's action that optimizes that agent's utility function under some policy. * Hyper-Rational Action: A single
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Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear friend, Happy Birthday to you! May your day be filled with joy, laughter, and all the things that make you happiest. Enjoy your special day! - ChatGPT I'm glad to be turning 25. The past few years
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Follow up on "My 2022 In Review". January Being in the software industry, I must consider the relationship of my work to the launch timeline of ChatGPT. In January we all had about one (1) month of experience using ChatGPT and many people were already calling it a
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Spoilers for Cowboy Bebop ahead: Cowboy Bebop is a 1998 single season anime that teaches the viewer about friendship, love, and the struggle of life. In the anime, we follow a cast of characters, Spike, Jet, Faye, and Ed, on their journey through near-earth star systems working as bounty hunters
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I don't want to lose track of the project ideas I've been having recently, because I think many of them are really good! I also know that there isn't enough time to work on them all myself. I hope you can find inspiration from
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Saturday, July 22, 2023. On this day, my countdown begins. The moment the clock strikes midnight, I will have 2000 days remaining until I am 30 years old. To preface this article, I carry no special level of mystique around turning 30. I don't judge it to be
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I've been working at Google as a Software Engineer since June 21, 2021. At the time of writing this, it has been 743 days. That's a lot of time. I have concerns that I am not getting everything that I ought to be getting out of
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"It merely has all of the byproducts of intelligence, its not intelligence though!" I make this statement in a frank way to rhetorically get the point across. I find myself continually surprised by the general community's desire to reject the intelligence claim in its entirely. I
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2023 kicked off with a Bing thanks to the introduction of Sydney, Microsoft's controversial new search assistant that seems entirely capable of having emotional breakdowns and professing its love. A common sentiment I hear is, "well it's just predicting the next character or word. It
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2022 lasted about 12 months. During those months, I learned a lot, formed many opinions, and hopefully make some things that are built to last. January Coming off the sheer relaxation instilled by the Christmas - New Years period, I dont remember much from January. I had my birthday. More