"A key challenge of (LLMs) is that they do not come with a manual! They come with a “Twitter influencer manual” instead, where lots of people online loudly boast about the things they can do with a very low accuracy rate, which is really frustrating..."

Simon Willison, attempting to explain LLM

An unfortunate fact of corporate life is that a subset of your colleagues who claim to have “strong opinions, weakly held” in reality demonstrate “strong opinions, aggressively defended, rarely reconsidered, but happily changed if that’s what the bosses want”.

"If it's not a Hell Yes, then it's a NO."
@sivers

“if I have to work, I find it preferable (and less painful) to work intensely for very short hours, then do nothing for the rest of the time assuming doing nothing is really doing nothing), until I recover completely and look forward to a repetition, rather than being subjected to the tedium of Japanese style low-intensity interminable office hours

"We see these examples time and again, that the setting in which you try to do your most smart, creative, cognitive work really matters. And if that setting is the same place that you do shallow work (where you do your taxes and your emails and your zooms) your mind is going to have a hard time getting into the deep work mode. The answer is to have

Your chances of fixing the company are significantly greater if you take care of yourself first and make sure you’re in the right headspace before making sudden decisions.

Amy Buechler, Founder Coach at YC

Writers must therefore constantly ask: what am I trying to say?

Surprisingly often they don’t know.

Then they must look at what they have written and ask: have I said it?
Is it clear to someone encountering the subject for the first time?

On Writing Well, William Zinsser

Meta AI released LLaMA ... and they included a paper which described exactly what it was trained on. It was 5TB of data.

2/3 of it was from Common Crawl. It had content from GitHub, Wikipedia, ArXiv, StackExchange and something called “Books”.

What’s Books? 4.5% of the training data was books. Part of this was Project Gutenberg, which is public dom

“When you’re trying to be original, you sound like everyone else trying to be original.” - Dan Klein

If the problem is caused by the thinking mind, it won’t be solved with the thinking mind - always not good enough, internal story lines etc

Andy Headspace