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TyrianPurpleon Writing by hand is good for your brain

Back in uni, I used to write down notes both in class and during my own revision. It truly helped me pass tests. My go to was the Pomodoro technique. 25 minutes of reading and writing then 5 minutes of rest. Did this for four 25 minute sessions. By the end of the day I had short notes of what I had read that day.

TyrianPurpleon It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership

Once you buy something (physical or digital), ownership of it should rest solely with the purchaser and no one else.

TyrianPurpleon Türkiye will not sell rare earth elements to the USA

You don't want to make the Sultan mad. If he gets mad, he won't sell you rare earths.

All jokes aside, I'm pretty sure both are still used. Non Turks still use Turkey.

TyrianPurpleon Use Prolog to improve LLM's reasoning

Ah Prolog. So the full circle back to expert systems is complete now, yeah?

TyrianPurpleon OpenAI Is a Bad Business

> Which Zuckerberg is doing his best to completely turn them into commodities

By giving them out for free??

TyrianPurpleon Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." and what we have witnessed is magic.

TyrianPurpleon Behind OpenAI's plan to make A.I. flow like electricity

Just pump and dump, boys. Pump and dump.

TyrianPurpleon Binance founder 'CZ' leaves prison on Friday

60 billion is a beautiful payday. That's now clean (hopeully), he can now start something else.

TyrianPurpleon Bangladesh imposes curfew after dozens killed in anti-government protests

When governments do such things, expect bad results. The protesters' demands aren't unreasonable at all. Just be meritocratic in civil service appointments.

TyrianPurpleon Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited deafness

Excuse me, are you The Qu?

TyrianPurpleon Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

Meta's next for him? There's lots of money being poured into their AI division and there's lots of compute & being able to do any kind of research he might want.

TyrianPurpleon Boeing tells airlines to check pilot seats after shift led plane to plunge

They should have told informed every customer about this "feature". It seems Boeing waits for something bad to happen to then reveal the feature that caused the accident. Same thing with the MCAS.

TyrianPurpleon High coffee consumption, brain volume and risk of dementia and stroke

Coffee & Tea are both stimulants. So I wouldn't be wrong by coming to the same conclusion about tea drinkers. Guess my cranium has been marinated real good.

TyrianPurpleon Language models can explain neurons in language models

By analyzing the function of individual neurons, these guys were/are able to gain a deeper understanding of how language models process language, which could lead to improved model architecture and training methods.

TyrianPurpleon What are transformer models and how do they work?

Sebastian Raschka's course is really good. Gone through it like three times.

TyrianPurpleon Why construction projects always go over budget

Where I come from, someone's palms have to be greased. As simple as that, and now with construction projects, the greasing is heavy.

TyrianPurpleon Microsoft’s GPT-Powered Bing Leak

The Bing UI has always been an eye-sore. Plus the output looks like what you'd get from any standard search engine.