Dominic de Bettencourt

berkeley | portland | nyc

[Dominic de Bettencourt @dominicd21]

normalize subtracting the mean and dividing by the standard deviation

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@GraceJTang maybe not if your interviewer is SBF, though

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@billyhumblebrag The attempts at clever wordplay in the lyrics are impressive. Models are usually really bad at this and do like extremely uninspired puns, but like 'alignment / chaotic neutral' and 'instrumental convergence / actual instrumental' are pretty creative

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@jeremymaluf I walked 112,000 once. I think 150k is surely possible with some training, but it's not easy. I wonder if it might be better to do it like 8am to 8am instead of midnight to midnight to not mess up your sleep initially.

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@zacharyvalles This gym looks cool but actually sucks. There's not that much equipment, the locker rooms are tiny

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An inside look into LLM pretraining

[Niels Hoven 🐮 @NielsHoven]

> "if kids aren't being taught to sound out words, then how are they being taught to read?"

Teachers tell students to just guess at the words.

When I say this, people think I mean it metaphorically, but no, I mean students are being told to literally guess at words.

Here's a teacher training video where a teacher demonstrates how she teaches a class of kindergarteners to "read" a word that THEY CAN'T SEE

The teacher refers to this as "reading and analyzing text".

She was taught that guessing at pictures IS reading, and now parrots that nonsense to any other students, parents, and teachers who will listen.

[Dominic de Bettencourt @dominicd21]

@cephaloform i’d be curious to try some things with base models, but am not familiar with the current SoTA base models. what’s the strongest ones right now?

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@emollick “Sol Medium for sonnets”

Surely there’s a better option, maybe from another company

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@TheStalwart I feel like it’s some sort of mode collapse thing. One task I used to do is copy a bunch of my text messages with someone into the context and simulate a conversation about some new topic. I’ve yet to find a model better than Opus 3 at this

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@besttrousers @JeremiahDJohns I live in Manhattan, and find MPU often misleading, but 5100 for the average Manhattan apartment doesn’t sound that far off? 1 bedrooms in new buildings go for that, and pretty much any 2+ bedrooms

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Interesting how israel has replaced dubai as the default for this sort of thing

[Transleytanked @transleytanked]

Suggest a song for this playlist 🇮🇱

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@tenobrus @MatthewW_eacc They can pivot to being the compute provider for the companies actually doing RSI, which is not a bad position. They are incredibly good at building data centers fast

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@AaronBergman18 Thought so too but was able to replicate this one

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@NateSilver538 That’s kind of misleading though, isn’t it? Teams that win by a lot will advance to face better teams, and then win by less (or lose). That’s why OKC and the Spurs are also on here.

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@JeremiahDJohns The cheapest currently available unit in Inwood (per street easy) is $3125/month, which is 1500 more per month than he’s paying

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@iamaheron_

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@angadsinghjosan @spicey_lemonade You don't think people could get AI-generated code that works, then rewrite it as a human? That sounds a lot easier than coming up with the solution themselves.

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@grapesmoker Their undergrad CS TAs are paid very fairly, and much better than TAs at some other schools

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@charlespacker The cost of building these products has gone down because their models are way better at writing code. I think this was always their plan

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@LinkofSunshine Median listed unit is probably a little high. But 2100 for the median unit in Manhattan is more unrealistic. There is one listing on all of StreetEasy right now below that

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@iaindunning @TheStalwart I feel like it should be unique activities that will draw people from farther away. Stuff like Level99, meow wolf (though they’re building in seaport already), immersive theater (since sleep no more closed)