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My new "generative book," fully written by me, the last chapter is on how AI will revolutionize the sciences (and us): tylercowen.com/marginal-revol…
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Intellectual obesity is what happens when you consume too much and produce too little.
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this post cuts to something i’ve been personally thinking & posting about a lot which is how the human mind’s forgetting machinery is underrated as a design primitive.
in our first product we’ve built our memory model around a specific decay factor influenced by multiple variables..
each memory degrades by default unless actively reinforced. this relies on a combination of recency, retrieval frequency, & contextual reactivation. this ain’t perfect any means.
but it’s annoying af that current llm memory implementations essentially treat every retrieved fact as equally alive. that’s likely not how cognition works.
idk if our approach is the final answer but i’m increasingly convinced the forgetting curve is as important as the learning curve. & the right memory model may be way more about what you let go than what you store.
Andrej Karpathy@karpathy
One common issue with personalization in all LLMs is how distracting memory seems to be for the models. A single question from 2 months ago about some topic can keep coming up as some kind of a deep interest of mine with undue mentions in perpetuity. Some kind of trying too hard.
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@johncoogan @tbpn Just realized that uber mc is 30x Lyft rn, thought they were right next to each other for the longest time just bc it was that way pre-pandemic
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clear thinking is downstream of having a commonplace practice. now more so than ever
kepano@kepano
@benspringwater the desire to hold thoughts in our hands is as old as humanity
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@notbylght barbell strategy of doing without thinking and thinking without doing works best. trying both at the same time is what holds us back
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@ccarella @_brianpotter same, loving it so far. all the examples make you realize how much of the things around us we take for granted
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@yb_effect @_brianpotter It took me so long to read this book and I enjoyed every minute of it.
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The intro section of The Origins of Efficiency by @_brianpotter hooks the reader so well.
- Acknowledges up front that efficiency is not a sexy topic compared to miracle moments praised in tech & science (0 -> 1 vs 1 -> 100)
- Tells the story of Penicillin as it normally is and then catches the reader off guard by saying "aha tricked you"
- Explains that the Alexander Fleming discovery tale of Penicillin would be useless without 99% of the efficiency work that came in the years after
- Proceeds to double down with similar stories in agriculture, textiles, and printing to back his claim that "efficiency is the engine that powers human civilization"
By the end of the intro, the reader is on board with the fact that though it's always serendipitous breakthrough stories (car exterior) that get the praise, they're truly nothing without the systems and processes (the engine) that get built after to support the discovery.
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Doing the reading is a superpower, and it's even better in a world where "no one" is doing the reading. (Inspired by a conversation I had with some college students.)
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if any founders are struggling to build a consistent writing practice for their company, I'm happy to help you get some systems in place and get a few posts going.
not looking to ghostwrite, but rather help you engineer a simple blog that will help you be a sharper leader
signüll@signulll
most startups treat their launch as the story. it’s definitively not.. it should be just the opening line. what actually happens now is that there is typically one big launch video, then silence, then occasional product announcements that nobody asked for & nobody remembers. there’s no connective tissue. each piece of content has to justify itself from zero because there’s no accumulated world for it to inhabit. what you should be doing is designing the launch as chapter one of a long book… i.e. don’t fucking create a standalone film. every week you’re adding a page to that damn book.. this is a feature, a use case, a small revelation about what the product knows & why that matters. the content continues. what does this do? well this compounds like hell. audiences who follow a narrative become invested in its resolution. they feel the absence when a chapter’s missing. that’s a completely different relationship than “i saw their launch video once.” this is what we will do with skye.
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