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Why Open Source AI Will Win

You shouldn't bet against the bazaar or the GPU p̶o̶o̶r̶ hungry.

a year ago 36 votes
Natural Language Is an Unnatural Interface

How can we use familiar design patterns to constrain the unwieldy state space of large language models?

over a year ago 35 votes
Attention Traps

Can we find needles of signal in the Web's infinite haystack of noise?

over a year ago 35 votes
Please Build More Silly Things

Hacking on fun things with curious co-conspirators is a superpower

over a year ago 40 votes

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Should Democrats go back to neoliberalism?

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