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Because infrastructural systems are mostly about nonmonetary benefits to people-their time, agency, comfort, and health-optimizing them for price, much less revenue and profit, misses these important aspects.
How Infrastructure Works
Deb Chachra
The features we found represent a small subset of all the concepts learned by the model during training, and finding a full set of features using our current techniques would be cost-prohibitive (the computation required by our current approach would vastly exceed the compute used to train the model in the first place).
Mapping the Mind of a Large Language Model
anthropic.com
No matter what we've tried so far, the request ends up being sent.
The first time I was just watching, determined not to press the button, but when I received the response, I was startled into pressing it.
They Opened the API for It and I'm Sending Requests but the Response Always Comes Back 300ms Before I Send the Request, Is There a Way of Handling That With Try{} Predestined{} Blocks? Or Do I Need to Use the Bootstrap Paradox Library?
ycombinator.com
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