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A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
I know some skaa soldiers who fought in one of the Lord Ruler’s Suppression Campaigns.” Yeden paled. “Traitors!” Ham shrugged. “Most of them aren’t proud of what they did,” he said. “But most of them also like to eat. It’s a hard world, Yeden.”
Mistborn Trilogy
Brandon Sanderson
But in the end, the remarkable thing is that all these operations—individually as simple as they are—can somehow together manage to do such a good “human-like” job of generating text. It has to be emphasized again that (at least so far as we know) there’s no “ultimate theoretical reason” why anything like this should work. And in fact, as we’ll discuss, I think we have to view this as a—potentially surprising—scientific discovery: that somehow in a neural net like ChatGPT’s it’s possible to capture the essence of what human brains manage to do in generating language.
What Is ChatGPT Doing ... And Why Does It Work?
Stephen Wolfram
Phil Rhinelander opened my eyes. In that study it all happened for me—my inspiration, my dedication to the philosophic life. From then on, I was out of international relations—I already had enough credits for the master's—and into philosophy.
Courage Under Fire
James B. Stockdale
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