Max Beauroyre

The three dynamics above can help us understand DeepSeek's recent releases. About a month ago, DeepSeek released a model called "DeepSeek-V3" that was a pure pretrained model 3 — the first stage described in #3 above. Then last week, they released "R1", which added a second stage. It's not possible to determine everything about these models from... See more

I find that I am the most anxious and uneasy when I am not honest with myself, when I am yearning for a certain (external) metric of success.

• What a modern LLM does during training is, essentially, very very quickly skim the textbook, the words just flying by , not spending much brain power on it.


• Rather, when you or I read that math textbook, we read a couple pages slowly; then have an internal monologue about the material in our heads and talk about it with a few study-buddies; read

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It’s extremely difficult these days for young people to become homeowners. If you have extremely strict zoning laws and restrictions on building more housing, it’s good for the boomers, whose properties keep going up in value, and terrible for the millennials. If you proletarianize the young people, you shouldn’t be surprised if they eventually... See more

It was the first time Johanna and I had lived together, so we spent much time talking about how to go about our lives.

Why didn’t I see that it would be easy to fund essay writing in this way? It was, as I’ve said, partly a lack of imagination, partly a fear of looking stupid. But it was also that my thinking was bundled . I had conflated “being a writer” with “having a publisher” and “getting a salary from my writing.” These are not the same thing.

predictor of leadership success can be summarized in 6 words: ability to operate at all levels.