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| | scottaaronson.blog
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| | ... on Blake Lemoine, the Google engineer who became convinced that a machine learning model had become sentient, contacted federal government agencies about it, and was then fired placed on administrative leave for violating Google's confidentiality policies. (1) I don't think Lemoine is right that LaMDA is at all sentient, but the transcript is so...
| | chriscolose.wordpress.com
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| | Recently, the world celebrated an International Day of Climate Action, called "350", which is based on lifting public awareness on the need for an international climate treaty to reach a 350 parts per million CO2 level as a target threshold. I didn't really join in on the fun or follow it in any detail, but...
| | qntm.org
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| | [AI summary] The discussion revolves around modeling relationships and marriages in a database, with various suggestions and considerations. Key points include the need for normalized database design, handling polygamous and polyamorous relationships, and the implications of how data is structured. There are mentions of tables such as 'people', 'family', 'family_member', 'marriages', and 'humans', with some emphasizing the importance of tracking relationships over time and handling different types of relationships (e.g., committed, crush, etc.). The conversation also touches on the societal and technical challenges of designing such systems, including historical database limitations and the need for flexible, rules-based approaches.
| | www.paepper.com
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| [AI summary] This article explains how to train a simple neural network using Numpy in Python without relying on frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch, focusing on the implementation of ReLU activation, weight initialization, and gradient descent for optimization.