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hci, policy, brainrot;
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@carnegiemellon engg prev, @uchicago these days;

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iykyk

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empire state of mind is the national anthem tonight lol

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knicks in five

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knicks in five

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@max_spero_ chip companies usually need to get export control licenses to employees on visas belonging to certain nationalities, for instance

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

By the way, public service announcement: if you're one of the numerous people posting about Anthropic's dystopian ways and you're thinking about getting Claude to help you write that post... don't!

Another one of their terms is that you may not use Claude to do anything that "exposes [Anthropic to] reputational harms" 👇

And, if you do, under the - extremely unusual - clause 13 of their terms (https://t.co/z43rJNkvZu), you have PRE-AGREED, by using Anthropic (and accepted their terms), that the harm you've done is irreparable, that you won't oppose Anthropic injunction, and they don't need to prove actual damage.

They can simply go to a judge in a friendly jurisdiction (and of course, their terms precise that any dispute "will be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in San Francisco, California") and:
a) file an injunction that shuts you down
b) make you pay for everything since under section 11 of their terms you agree to indemnify Anthropic for "any and all liabilities, claims, damages, expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and costs), and other losses arising out of or related to your breach or alleged breach of these Terms."

In other words, if you use Claude to help you talk shit about Anthropic publicly, their terms say you pay their lawyers to go after you and you've already pre-agreed you've lost the case.

Oh, and cherry on the cake: in the odd case the judge were like "are you crazy, this is insanely abusive, you Anthropic are the ones at fault here," according to their terms Anthropic's maximum liability is... $100.

[Mikel Artetxe @artetxem]

Brilliant idea! Next up: Apple randomly reboots your Mac if you're building competing tech, Gmail silently edits your email if you mention rival platforms, and Tesla Autopilot swerves if it detects you're working on self-driving cars.

All in the name of safety, of course. Because malicious actors controlling the world’s operating systems, inboxes and cars would be extremely dangerous!

[Dean W. Ball @deanwball]

Degrading performance on ML research *without telling the user* is shockingly hostile and a terrible look. That could silently damage all sorts of work, including some of my own. Also the type of thing that could raise the eyebrows of antitrust enforcers worldwide.

[Lee (Greater) @shortmagsmle]

Accidentally re-inventing “thinking” from first principles

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i still haven’t managed to figure out navigating dupont circle but it’s ok there’s still three months left lol. if any of my oomfs are here in D.C. or in the DMV area pls don’t hesitate to hmu i’m always happy to hang out !!

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life update: moved to D.C. and started tech policy internship 😽😽😽

[Jeremy Cohen @deepcohen]

The recent Microsoft AI report noted that too much learning rate decay during pretraining hurts post-RL performance. This is actually just the latest of several papers this year pointing out that small learning rates can be harmful in LLM pretraining. (Thread)

[r @shorty2kiss]

found a man with the same personality as me, this bitch is annoying as fuck

[AlgoFlows @algoflows]

jane street is probably a place that has set back science by at least a 100 years. Stealing top tier research talent and making them do high speed coupon clipping to make rich people richer and also organize military coups in South Sudan.

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

“The students who cannot read a 20-page article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill, or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow.”

[John Ruf @JohnRuf6]

I proudly only ever park my car illegally so my ticket dollars go to the great city of Chicago instead of Saudi Arabia.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders will introduce a bill to have the public take a 50% ownership stake in the country's biggest AI companies.

The American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act would have the government tax AI companies, take 50% of the stock, and put it under public control.

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i feel like i should have known that georgetown is a kinda hilly neighborhood…….. ah well fucked around and found out lol at least my calves will be well developed this summer 💅

[emily north @north0fnorth]

chicago actually has some great history despite its short lifespan. we invented the skyscraper, reversed the flow of an entire river, had one of the most famous world’s fairs, birthed the modern labor movement, & made the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction. length =/= quality

[yi @jksadillas]

escuchando agust d porque solo él sabe q pedo

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back in enemy territory after a year (new jersey)

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holding my nose while doing this synthetic sampling assignment bc it’s worth 20% of the grade #mightyhavefallen