Nicolay Gerold

Intermittent reinforcement schedule: the slot machine that gives you a win to keep you playing and maintains a constant chance of winning. If you are pursuing something and you want to continue the dopamine reward, remove rewards occasionally. Blunt the reward response for some of the intermediate results. The schedule should be unpredictable.

On the one hand, quality data still matters. A lot of focus on LLM improvement is on model and dataset size. There’s some early evidence that LLMs can be greatly influenced by the data quality they are trained with. WizardLM, TinyStories, and phi-1 are some examples. Likewise, RLHF datasets also matter.

On the other hand, ~100 data points is enough... See more

The vagus is one connection between brain and body and helps regulate our emotional states. It is connected to most organs and to its sensory receptors and to the brain. It also allows the brain to send motor communications. It acts through a two-way communication. It analyzes many features of the body and tells the brain how to feel about them and... See more

Prolactin: opposite of dopamine.

What's New (October, 2023)

We are pleased to announce that this repository (formerly known as Microsoft Recommenders, https://github.com/microsoft/recommenders), has joined the Linux Foundation of AI and Data (LF AI & Data)! The new organization, recommenders-team , reflects this change.

We hope this move makes it easy for anyone to contribute! Our... See more

IL6 interacts with the receptors the sex hormones bind to, to prevent the effect of these receptors. It is particularly released during inflammation. Apnea and build up of CO2 in the body either caused or are caused by an decrease in estrogen and testosterone.

If I had to pick one state management library for all of my React projects in 2024, I would choose Zustand . It takes almost no time to learn how to use it. It also doesn’t require you to add a provider component to your application, which makes it very convenient to use in any component you like.

Traditional ETL solutions are still quite powerful when it comes to:

• Common connectors with small-medium data volumes : we still have a lot of respect for companies like Fivetran, who have really nailed the user experience for the most common ETL use cases, like syncing Zendesk tickets or a production Postgres read replica into Snowflake. The only

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