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From deep to long learning?

For the last two years , a line of work in our lab has been to increase sequence length. We thought longer sequences would enable a new era of machine learning foundation models: they could learn from longer contexts, multiple media sources, complex demonstrations, and more. All data ready and waiting to be learned…

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It's okay to make something nobody wants

产品看起来是给用户用的,但我觉得这可能是一种假象,它实际上更像是一种自我表达。 许多表达被不同的人创造出来,经历了自然选择后,存活下来的那一个,是用户喜欢的那个。 我的意思是,这个过程是这么发生的:你做一个东西,不是“我觉得他们可能需要这个”而做,而是“我觉得这个有点意思”而做。然后,别人在使用你的产品时,感受到了与你相同的那种感受,这时他说:“我觉得这个有点意思”。 从这个角度来说,产品就像一种情绪的存储器,作者存进去,复制一千份,用户从产品中取出来。 你不能自己不含任何情感,却期望用户使用后带有情感。 我觉得即使做了个没人想要的东西,也没关系。你唯一需要做的是确保你已经完整呈现了你的情感。…

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CheatGPT

This week I stepped out of one world and landed in another. It started while I was marking assignments in a few of my programming courses.The quality of the code I was reading was amazing! My students were doing the sorts of things that my open source peers do: