Most tech people know about ordinary least-squares (OLS), but not so much about *total* least-squares (TLS)
They measure fit differently: OLS minimizes sum of sq. distances along dependent variable; whereas TLS minimizes sum of orthogonal distances from data to fit line
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Here's a cool paper using LLMs for lossless text compression, in what they call LLMZip, which outperforms SOTA text compression methods
The idea is very intuitive
Given a sentence to compress, like "My first attempt", they feed the first 2 tokens ("My" and " first") to... [1/6]
@aurorachaang Let’s see: you support Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthi’s and Iran. How bankrupt can your worldview be? Why not go for the trifecta? China destroying Taiwan, North Korea destroying South Korea?
My students and I are currently developing an educational OS kernel built from the ground up. The kernel is named in honor of Lin Mo (林默), the mortal name of the Chinese sea goddess Mazu (媽祖).
https://t.co/wGRmH2ufFT