blogs I found in 2023
"in comparison to less fluid research areas, adaptability is more important than experience. Before the Transformer, NLP relied on insights from linguistics... now... irrelevant. The Transformer was five years ago, so nobody has >5 years of experience."
I can always tell when someone spends Too Much Time designing their blog. It is extremely endearing
'Posts labeled "בבל" are experimental, unreliable, poetic, prophetic, metaphoric, contradictory, false, confused, incoherent, unclear, inchoate, incontinent, insane, repetitive, low-effort, pointless, cringe, fringe, binge, silly, facile, babbling, ...'
"Morality is complicated, AIs try to be simple"
"How is it so small and capable of so much? Because it forgets irrelevant details. There is another term for this: abstraction... no evidence will convince them a computer is doing anything but shuffling symbols, because “Concepts” are exclusive to humans"
https://borretti.me/article/and-yet-it-understands
brutalism to my rococo
https://e2eml.school/