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The world is mostly shaped by wealth, more so than ever as technology enables individuals to act with the power of city-states. These mega-wealthy establish sinecures based largely on proximity, signaling, sycophancy, rarely talent. The more you meet those with extreme wealth, the more their veneration feels like a collective hypnosis, a global boiled-frog bamboozlement.
Fwd: ⦿ Roden: 075 — Archetypes Revisited
Josh Beckman
Use a small model to generate a 'draft' output, then use a larger and smarter model to score the 'draft', then use a rejection sampling scheme to accept the tokens which are agreed by the small and large models.
In tests, they find that a draft model can give them speedups ranging between 1.92X (on a summarization benchmark called XSum) and 2.46X on a code generation task called HumanEval.
Fwd: Import AI 317: DeepMind Speeds Up Language Model Sampling; Voice Cloning Tech Gets Abused; More Scaling Laws for RL
Josh Beckman
In essence, journalling is similar to a psychotherapy session.
The clarity of mind you get after a journalling session comes from structuring things in your head, not in your TfT tool.
Yet, as one would expect, people project that feeling onto a tool — which leads to more time invested.
Ultimately after the N-th session, when you try to use the tool to get more of that feeling — you get the opposite, burnout, and then people switch to a new TfT app for the same cycle.
In Essence, Journalling Is Similar to a Psychotherapy Session.
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