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Today, roughly 500 Americans are dying each day from COVID-19. At this rate, SARS-CoV-2 will be the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2023—about triple the threat of influenza.
Are We Still in a COVID-19 Emergency?
Katelyn Jetelina from Your Local Epidemiologist
In s1, when the LLM tries to stop thinking with `"</think>"`, they force it to keep going by replacing it with `"Wait"`. It’ll then begin to second guess and double check it’s answer. They do this to trim or extend thinking time (trimming is just abruptly inserting `"</think>"`).
It’s really dumb, I love it.
S1: The $6 R1 Competitor?
Tim Kellogg
Maybe the devices that we ended up with are too flat, too homogenous and standardized. They possess us more than we possess them. Everyone’s iPhones look the same, but the Pokedex and Digivice were unique (as I recall) to each owner. They had funky, geometric forms and garish cases and buttons. They weren’t just flat glass touchscreens.
The Dream of the Personal Machine
Kyle Chayka
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