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Distill.pub circuits neural network introduction

Zoom In: An Introduction to Circuits

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jake Mary Branscombe Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦

“if you want to understand more about how weird the "using statistics to predict the next word" works out to in practice, you try the mechanistic interpretability work from anthropic: distill.pub/2020/circuit... neelnanda.io/mechanistic-... transformer-circu…”

“To go one step up from there, I'd recommend this introduction to circuits: distill.pub/2020/circuit...”

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mackuba.eu: Many are contrasting the bsky response to harassment of trans users to the harassment of AI developers and users. FWIW, as a transgender developer and user of AI systems, anecdotally, I've received…
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jake: lyInG tHeFT mAchIne thAt's rUInInG peOple'S wAtER
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The Masters Of Our Fate

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“It uses both a weak ControlNet (to vaguely incorporate the Laughing Man icon into the scene), and a complex harness I wrote to maintain a constant level of motion within scenes and motion-interpolate them. Later I did another with an original score: www.you…”

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Ted Underwood Mark J. Nelson Singularity's Bounty e/cc Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 2 Concern & critique · 1
Singularity's Bounty e/cc: I think this must be a really bad time to be a college student. So much uncertainty in the future, and so much hostility and confusion around AI use, AI witch hunts It would be like going to cookin…
Ted Underwood: At most places students will have no difficulty finding courses that allow or indeed encourage AI use on advanced projects The profs who are most vocal On Here are those who experience it as a prob…
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Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: This “game” on the White House website, a version of Snake where you play as a white man in a suit and you run around picking up identifiably black, Asian, and Latino men and putting them in orange…
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: Yes, clearly, but what were the instructions they gave, who told them to give instructions, etc, on up. What is the chain that led to this thing coming into existence?
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