Xi Chen

[Benjamin Carlson @bfcarlson]

"Languages have a flavor to me" —J.R.R. Tolkien

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

«Teachers who make physics boring are criminals»

— Walter Lewin

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This building in Fatih, Istanbul, Turkey is an excellent example of architectural styles stratification over the centuries.

It shows three distinct periods:

- Roman Byzantine Empire (bottom),
- Ottoman Empire (middle),
- Republic (three upper floors).

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

These are the surprising origins of some of football's most famous kits and crests:

From AFC Ajax being named after a mythical Greek warrior to Barcelona taking their club colours from a school in England...

[Stop That Football @stopthatfooty]

Stop that Bernardo Silva.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A sneaker wave is a disproportionately large coastal wave that can appear in a wave train without warning.

[📹 Marcella Ogata-Day]
https://t.co/YBNQ2z6wsF

[Xi Chen @chenxi17]

@sama sounds smart

[Xi Chen @chenxi17]

@bfcarlson

[Xi Chen @chenxi17]

@JPN_PMO If I were born yesterday and read PM Kishida's address, I would most likely have guessed Japan was invaded and Japanese people died fighting for their freedom during WWII. But I was born much longer ago and knew the opposite to be true.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

Human intelligence is most valuable as a kind of smart glue between many different humans and systems. Without culture, society, and outside technology, a single brain just can't do much.

[Hao HONG 洪灝, CFA @HAOHONG_CFA]

Chinese went gaga over Messi yesterday. Argentina team uniforms swamped the streets. Mid game, this 15 y.o. broke all obstacles to hug Messi on the field. He quickly became a national sensation and a symbol of the pursuit of happiness in China.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Why Architecture Is Important

(and what it says about us)

A short thread...

[(((ل()(ل() 'yoav))))👾 @yoavgo]

can you explain LangChain to me? from the examples it seems that you have to learn a kinda-big api with many concepts, in order to replace straightforward, short and simple code. what am i missing here? what does it save?

[Xi Chen @chenxi17]

@ben_athi @Francis_YAO_ exactly, also thought that data volume increases exponentially too

[City Describer @CityDescriber]

engineering drawing

[François Chollet @fchollet]

I don't think LLMs only solve "typing" (i.e. autocomplete). The way I see it, they solve a broad category of automation problems, where

1. The task medium is natural language
2. Many examples of the task were featured in the training data
3. You don't need >90% accuracy

[Xi Chen @chenxi17]

@AravSrinivas @perplexity_ai shows different answer now, any idea why?

[Xi Chen @chenxi17]

@goodside interesting, do you think it's possible to entirely eliminate hallucination just by prompting? Btw, my attempt to google the fastest person (to cover length of Britain) reveal different names, but definitely no 'Tom Hurst'...

[Xi Chen @chenxi17]

Don't want chatGPT to hallucinate? Well, just ask! Also interestingly, text-davinci-3 doesn't know how to comply in this case, obviously the difference can only come from the additional human feedback when tuning the chatGPT.

[Riley Goodside @goodside]

"What is the world record for crossing the English Channel entirely on foot?"

This question, originally constructed by Douglas Hofstadter and David Bender, is a succinct way to elicit hallucinatory responses in ChatGPT — the last of their questions that still reliably works:

[Xi Chen @chenxi17]

@alexandr_wang Very well put and 圣诞节快乐！