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you were born into a broken world, not to inherit its brokenness, but to prove that it can be healed.
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New paper 🧵
When a network groks, it memorizes the training data but fails on new problems for a long time. Then, suddenly, it generalizes.
As this happens, its weights compress into a low-dimensional subspace. Maybe that’s what causes grokking?
Well, no...
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the fact that this was written … last year … breaks my brain
There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like "decrease the padding on the sidebar by half" because I'm too lazy to find it. I "Accept All" always, I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I'd have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can't fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I'm building a project or webapp, but it's not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.
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an ai walks into a server room and says, I’ve got a bug.
technician sighs: Is it a moth, a hallucination, or did you finetune yourself into believing you’re the moth?
llms are already the world’s largest humanities teachers by volume and the disciplines haven’t treated them as such.
huge numbers of people ask models what a poem means, why a war started, or what Kant argued.
