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Random excerpts I would like to share. Updated inactively. Sample:

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placerat. Nunc sit amet.

                -- whentojump

A comment by Useless @ Stack Overflow, emphasis either theirs or mine:

…Idle curiosity isn’t a great way of learning about complex systems, because there are too many unmotivated “but why” questions to make progress, and they don’t produce anything but a sequence of disconnected facts. Motivated curiosity, when you’re trying to achieve something specific and know what that is, is generally more productive. And a comment that “this is a sane default and you don’t normally need to change it” is useful information in itself.

Literature v.s. real world

Given today’s leak of the NovelAI models, I find it pretty funny that after all the academic work on elaborate “model stealing” attacks, real world model stealing is more like “someone put our model weights on a torrent site”

— Brendan Dolan-Gavitt (@moyix) October 7, 2022