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dfdydx··on I trained a small transformer in 1.5hrs and it beats many LLMs
Not all transformers are _language_ models - the sequences of tokens don't have to be sequences of words.
dfdydx··on Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future
Wasn't much of the population too poor to buy most stuff, back in the day? It seems to have worked out fine for, say, European Aristocrats c. 1400s-1700s.
dfdydx··on Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments
One big difference I observed between the US and $HOMECOUNTRY is that US colleges require a lot of courses with little credit, so a normal college year is N courses x K credits per courses, N large, K small. In $HOMECOUNTRY it is typically N small, K large - think instead of having Calc IV, Trig whatever, Algebra 2 and Introduction to Proofs, you have a single "Mathematics" course that last a whole year, not just a semester.

Since each course needs its eval, assessment is a function of N, not N*K or K. Much easier to scale if there is ~5 evals per student per year than ~20.

dfdydx··on Mario Meets Pareto
Wouldn't that just change the shape of the pareto frontier? It stops at some point (when marginal utility becomes negative) - but this is not special, they typically stop at 0 as well.
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