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Think of it this way: When I work on a book I have my Writing Room. I go into the Writing Room and turn off the internet and block distractions and do the Writing Room work. Even someone else simply sitting in the room would change the tenor of the self-ensorcellment that’s required for “flow” or “voice acquisition.”
Big Walk Energy, Story Demystified, Film Review — Roden Newsletter Archive
craigmod.com
Pick a rickety thing, bet on it collapsing, give it a gentle poke, watch it collapse and collect your winnings.
FTX Had Some Luna Trouble
bloomberg.com
The idea of transformers is to do something at least somewhat similar for sequences of tokens that make up a piece of text. But instead of just defining a fixed region in the sequence over which there can be connections, transformers instead introduce the notion of “attention”—and the idea of “paying attention” more to some parts of the sequence than others.
What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?
Stephen Wolfram
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