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Academic publishing functions mainly to sort people for jobs rather than to produce useful knowledge.Their words
The purpose of the academic output is to sort people out for jobs.
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A competent, empowered civil service that performs crucial government functions with in-house expertise is good.Their words
One unpopular position I’ve stuck to over the years is that a strong bureaucracy is good. I don’t mean “bureaucracy” as in red tape and regulation; I mean a competent, empowered civil service that can perform crucial government functions efficiently and well using in-house expertise. This is also called state capacity.
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Large language models are grown rather than built, and nobody really knows how the resulting working AI functions.Their words
Large language models are “grown, not built”. Researchers run training data through a neural network. Eventually this creates a working AI; nobody really knows how.
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It’s an administration that’s trying to turn us back to the 19th century or before. It’s really just trying to undo even the most essential functions of government.
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer ProgramsTheir words
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) by Gerald Jay Sussman and Hal Abelson. SICP is my all-time favourite programming book. It's also where I learned about the power of wishful thinking when coding. SICP uses wishful thinking as a design tool: write code as if the abstraction already existed. Pretend. Then, once the ideal abstraction has taken shape, you go ahead and implement those functions. This meta-level is what made SICP so valuable. Ultimately, it's a book that teaches how to think about code and problem solving. I'm tempted to even say that SICP is more a work of art than a pure coding book, but I won't go there. A beautiful book.
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A lot of people don't realize that particularly brain development, but then also the refining of functions in the brain through neuroplasticity includes the pruning or removal of signapses. Often we think about it's all about growth and new connections, but actually it also involves the refining or removal of of other connections that aren't needed.
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These wins are not proof that the system works; in fact, they are clear evidence that the system only works when it is circumvented.
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So if you find yourself generating the same blocks of code over and over, even though it feels fast or convenient, it is still insane.
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The central clinical proposition of polyvagal theory-that autonomic state functions as an organizing platform shaping perception, emotion, and relational behavior-was not empirically disproven in the critique.
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Trials serve two distinct functions: validation — confirming whether a drug works and is safe — and learning, or generating biological data to refine our understanding of a disease, a compound, and the relationship between the two.
1 December 2025
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K-Pop Demon HuntersTheir words
K-Pop Demon Hunters functions fabulously as an action-oriented animated musical, but what makes it rewatchable are the character interactions.
25 November 2025
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I want to like emphasize that I think the value function is something like it's going to make RL more efficient and I think that makes a difference but I think that anything you can do with a value function you can do without just more slowly.
5 October 2025
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I would say though that something that is kind of annoying to me is that we haven't yet figured out the bridging from the tinkering to the workflow quite as seamlessly as I would like.
27 August 2025
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AI is becoming capable of synthesizing knowledge, one of the core functions megapapers serve.Their words
AI is increasingly adept at directly achieving some goals that megapapers help to achieve, such as synthesizing knowledge.
17 July 2025
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We expect that building and evaluating AI systems capable of this kind of rapid world model induction will be critical for achieving robust, general AI capable of functioning effectively in the complex and fast-changing real world, and especially in human worlds - the environments that human beings have evolved in, created, and are continually changing and re-creating.
28 May 2025
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You should not try to create a ladder that functions as a pure checklist or scorecard that guarantees promotion if people check enough boxes; promotions are as much about the needs of the organization as the skills of the employees.
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Defining what expertise looks like in a job family is not HR’s work, and a career ladder left to them will be wrong.Their words
Don’t let (or make!) HR do all of the work. It’s really not their job to define expertise in your functions.
3 February 2025
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And the important thing to say is that no matter how you want the model to behave, these RLHF and preference-tuning techniques also improve performance. So, on things like math evals and code evals, there is something innate to these, what is called contrastive loss functions.
28 November 2024
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More capable AI agents are more likely to find and exploit flaws in their reward functions.Their words
A more intelligent agent is more capable of finding "holes" in the design of reward function and exploiting the task specification-in other words, achieving higher proxy rewards but lower true rewards.
Reward Hacking in Reinforcement Learninglilianweng.github.io
19 September 2024
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Most proteins are essentially unannotated, with their functions completely or mostly unknown.
9 May 2024
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The human mind functions as an association-forming machine, linking past experiences to present beliefs.Their words
Exposure therapy works because the human mind is an association machine.
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In a subtle but very real sense, every Lua function is an anonymous function.
3 December 2023
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I could believe that the Middle East doesn’t exist because I’m not there now. That would be kind of ridiculous, I think we would all agree on that. I think there’s only so much that we can attribute to our own powers of seeing. The whole system doesn’t come into being because I’m measuring it.
12 January 2023
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Our best explanation is that the UK adopted what we call the globalized system of procurement, privatizing planning functions to consultants and privatizing risk to contractors, which creates more conflict; the UK also has an unusually high soft cost factor.
High Costs are not About Precaritypedestrianobservations.com
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The students who ultimately succeed in learning R are not the ones who force themselves to memorize functions or do a bunch of coding drills.
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Primes of the Form x^2 + n y^2Their words
This might seem like a bizarrely specific question to write a whole book about, but that's actually the charm. It covers deep and general ideas, such as class field theory and elliptic functions, which are usually only taught to graduate students, but Cox approaches it all from an extremely concrete question which Fermat thought about.
14 August 2019
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Media coverage of mass violence functions as a socially acceptable outlet for anti-Trump sentiment.Their words
the media reaction to mass violence is in reality a sublimated and socially acceptable reaction to Trump.
9 April 2019
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A programming language functions as a lens that shapes how a problem is perceived when solving it.Their words
Every programming language is a lens through which we can look at the problem we're trying to solve.
9 July 2018
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And just as a tornado cannot assemble a Boeing 747 by passing through a junkyard, functional institutions are not spontaneously generated. The machinery, if it functions, was assembled by someone with good judgment: the institution’s founder.
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