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A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
As for Stefan’s bond with Hilda, it’s something that has stood the test of time. They’ve been happily together for over four years now and it looks like it’ll stay this way for the rest of their lives. Here is a truly happy couple! In fact, they have decided to have a baby and they have already handed in their legal statement to the Office Partners, the executives of the demographic services, to whom those wanting to have the one child they are permitted must submit their application. It’ll be their turn in roughly a year.
Chronicles From the Future
Paul Amadeus Dienach and Achilleas Sirigos
Basically, the way you train a language model is by giving it insane quantities of text data and asking it over and over to predict what word[1] comes next after a given passage.
Eventually, it gets very good at this.
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This training is a type of ✨unsupervised learning✨[2]
It's called that because the data (mountains of text scraped from the internet/books/etc) is just raw information—it hasn't been structured and labeled into nice input-output pairs (like, say, a database of images+labels).
If You Spend Much Time on AI Twitter, You Might...
Helen Toner
I will [BEHAVIOR] at [TIME] in [LOCATION].
Atomic Habits
James Clear
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
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