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My friend, however, asked his help not in repayment but as a matter of friendship, counting not on Thessicher's obligation but on his affection.
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
The discovery of scaling laws has typically preceded a boomtime for the domain the scaling laws are discovered in; scaling laws for language modeling preceded things like GPT3, Claude, ChatGPT, etc; scaling laws for image and video modeling preceded Dall-E, Imagen, etc.
Fwd: Import AI 317: DeepMind Speeds Up Language Model Sampling; Voice Cloning Tech Gets Abused; More Scaling Laws for RL
Josh Beckman
Loss in Judo is more personal than in other sports. Defeat in a sport like tennis feels bad, but defeat in a fighting sport is crushing in ways that most people do not comprehend. My coach liked to say that “at the end of the day, Judo is a fight, and humans respond very differently to losing in a physical fight.”
An Expertise Acceleration Experiment in Judo
Cedric Chin
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