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On writing fiction

Spectrogram of someone whistling
2024-08-14
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Engram

Midjourney-created image of a hand wearing some sort of fishnet glove festooned with sensors reaching out in front of a blurred forest background
2024-01-06
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Autoregressive language models I have known and loved

Lovecraftian tentacled "shoggoth" monster (labeled "Unsupervised Learning") reaches out with a tentacle ending in a (severed) human head (labeled "Supervised Fine-tuning") with a tentacle emerging from its mouth where its tongue should be holding a yellow ball with a smiley face on it (labeled "RLHF (cherry on top 🙂)").
2023-12-10
  • #ai
  • #bad

"Cramming" even harder

Cropped first page of "Cramming: Training a Language Model on a Single GPU in One Day"
2023-12-10
  • #ai
  • #bad

Introducing Deadweight Loss as a Service

The almighty (US) dollar. Colors inverted.
2023-04-01
  • #fiction

The Centre

Midjourney-created image of "a cold barren snowy grassy forgotten place more central than any with many biomes and no buildings but an outhouse"
2021-11-21
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Cremate Yourself Immediately

Midjourney-generated image of a planet burning in a dark void
2021-11-20
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