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Rich Sutton's "The Bitter Lesson" reveals a fascinating pattern in AI research:
For decades, AI researchers have tried to encode human knowledge and expertise into their systems. They believed this would lead to better results. They were wrong. Time and time again, the approaches that won out were simple, general methods that leveraged raw computat
... See more“A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well, is the chief instrument of cultural change.”
― Richard Rorty
Life in HD: An investigation of the jhanas’ impact on Jhourney retreat attendees — Jhourney
Anna Liutaiajhourney.io
GenerativeAI can conjure up a tree if you ask for one, but it will come from the commonality of attributes across the trees in the model’s training data. Under the hood, large language models (LLMs) and generative media models are trained on massive amounts of data to help predict a sequence of words or pixels based on the prompt you provide. So, i... See more
Scott Belsky • DIY Software, Where Betting Markets May Take Us, & What Makes Art
an ad for some skin cream that is honest - taught the consumer something true and useful:
This is Gycolic Acid
It exfoliates your skin.
It’s a chemical
just like water is a chemical, and oxygen is a chemical.It can cost you $40.
or $13
That’s my big learning of the year: understanding the way someone’s interior life translates to what they make. When I first started writing this Substack, I was possessed by the sense that I had to figure out “how to do it.” Which other Substacks do I like, which other Substacks are popular, what do they write about, how do they make it work. It’s... See more
Ava • What We Talk About When We Talk About Taste
“There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence – and in the end, you make it look like a quantum leap.”
James Dyson
ditch the process from Jenny Wen who designed Figjam
You can just say no to distractions and think about the future. https://t.co/chX9usIrxw