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@justalexoki Amen. I think about this a lot recently!

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Fresh off the press: Briefly 1.1 is live ✨
Some thoughtful QoL improvements and new features:
• Answer before reading
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• Collapsible discussion branches
Private discussion, made calmer.
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@Neesh774 Gets me every time.

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Imagine writing code where every byte mattered. I crash Chrome tabs when they hit 2 GB. The old legends were coding in 64 KB total.

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If you haven’t seen it yet, Briefly is live: https://t.co/QZZ6xr5vFH

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@derrickcchoi @OpenAI Congrats!!

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My apartment is basically a museum of things that might be useful someday.

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@jia_seed I think this is one of the cleaner tests of character there is.

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@stephen_wolfram My condolences Stephen. I'm going to spend some time reading through this (eulogy) later. Wishing you strength and spirit.

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@ritudidthat @sattyyouneed Agreed.

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@Romy_Holland You don't have to hold it together today. Just get to tomorrow.

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@karpathy @varunneal The best regularisation improvements always look obvious in retrospect :)

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I often think about this. The mask condition is almost insultingly simple. Only apply decay when the update and weight agree on direction. That's it.

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Cautious Weight Decay is a surprisingly simple technique that has been repeatedly validated in Modded NanoGPT. I expect it will gain serious traction as the default variant of decoupled weight decay

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The speed of cultural homogenisation is wild. Blindfold someone, fly them to any “up and coming” city, then put them inside the inevitable Edison-bulb gastropub with $18 cocktails. Good luck.

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The gaming industry discovering that “make good games people want to play” is a viable business strategy.

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@yacineMTB Haha that's awesome.

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It's fascinating to think about how the atoms in our bodies were forged in ancient stars - the same carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that make up our thoughts and feelings.

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Who needs human connection when you have multiple screens showing you’re losing money in real time.

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@tszzl The Fermi paradox answer nobody wants to say out loud is that we might be the ones who don’t make it through the transition, which would explain the silence pretty neatly.

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@Jason @grok That looks extremely cosy!