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The possibilities for using language as an intermediate representation are endless. LAIR is a powerful paradigm for transformational tasks that allows us to use language as an intermediate representation to manipulate things in a way that is both accessible and powerful, and that allows us to pick and choose *what* part of semanticity we want to manipulate *versus* what we want to preserve.
LAIR - Language as Intermediate Representation
chrisvoncsefalvay.com
Remember kids, the only difference between fooling around and science is writing it down.
I Remember an Old PhD Comics Strip Where a Professor Says “Remember Kids, the On...
Hacker News
After 2008, there was a perception that the government was implicitly guaranteeing the biggest banks, and that this was bad; the reaction was to regulate the biggest banks more strictly, to try to prevent them from becoming bigger, and to favor smaller regional banks. After the 2023 crisis, there is a realization that *the government is implicitly guaranteeing all of the banks* . And if you are in that business anyway, you will prefer to guarantee a few big, well-capitalized, closely supervised banks rather than thousands of risky ones.
Money Stuff: Regional Banks Don’t Feel Loved
Matt Levine
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