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5 experts · 13 posts · 23h ago
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“Some of the high schoolers in wealthier suburbs here have decided cold emailing UC faculty for "research opportunities" is a great way to get into Berkeley” evidence ↗
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Ted Underwood: We need a social movement to explain to students and entrepreneurs — that it's a bad idea to email random professors in other states for advice. It was charming to get one inquiry a month, but thre…
Ted Underwood: I'm not sure what happened; GenAI is part of it, but not all of it. The trend began earlier.
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3 experts · 9 posts · 1d ago
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“have they laid off 25% of the research staff? does collaborate mean more than assist, or is this symptomatic of their troubled relationship with words?” evidence ↗
Isaiah Bishop: i adore the kind of meaningless chart anthropic can put out
Isaiah Bishop: have they laid off 25% of the research staff? does collaborate mean more than assist, or is this symptomatic of their troubled relationship with words?
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2 experts · 6 posts · 1d ago
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“In particular what I would not say if you asked me a week ago is, “no that is impossible because no one, man or machine, could possibly change how a language model behaves by editing its weights”” evidence ↗
SE Gyges: this is an insanely funny admission given that the post is still correct in terms of all of the literal words that are literally in the post
Colin: there's just nothing really to address. The math performance thing on the small Qwen model is just a programming task. A kind of strange one, but not an especially impossible one. It doesn't reveal…
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