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Open Thread 121.75
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GPT-2 As Step Toward General Intelligence
A machine learning researcher writes me in response to yesterday’s post, saying: I still think GPT-2 is a brute-force statistical pattern matcher which blends up the internet and gives you back a slightly unappetizing slurry of it when asked. I … Continue reading
Do Neural Nets Dream Of Electric Hobbits?
Last week OpenAI announced its latest breakthrough. GPT-2 is a language model that can write essays to a prompt, answer questions, and summarize longer works. For example (bold prompt is human-written, all other text is the machine-generated response): Prompt: For … Continue reading
Open Thread 121.5
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The Proverbial Murder Mystery
I. Chefs. Hundreds of them. Tall chefs, short chefs, black chefs, white chefs. I pushed forward through them, like an explorer hacking away at undergrowth. They muttered curses at me, but I was stronger than they were. I came to … Continue reading
Open Thread 121.25
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OT121: Openumbra Thread
This is the bi-weekly visible open thread (there are also hidden open threads twice a week you can reach through the Open Thread tab on the top of the page). Post about anything you want, but please try to avoid … Continue reading
Irvine Meetup This Saturday
Where: Underneath this mysterious hexagonal sigil at the University Center food court in Irvine, California. People from LA, San Diego, etc welcome! When: 8:30 PM on Saturday, February 9th. Sorry for the late hour, my schedule is complicated and this … Continue reading
Survey Results On SSRIs
SSRIs are the most widely used class of psychiatric medications, helpful for depression, anxiety, OCD, panic, PTSD, anger, and certain personality disorders (Why should the same drug treat all these things? Great question!) They’ve been pretty thoroughly studied, but there’s … Continue reading
Open Thread 120.75
This is the twice-weekly hidden open thread. You can also talk at the SSC subreddit or the SSC Discord server.