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Stars Are Hard, Comparisons Are Easy
Absolute movie ratings are noise that drifts with your mood; pairwise comparisons are stable. So stop rating — compare, and let the machine infer calibrated...
Why government debt should be issued as perpetuities
Note that the following idea isn’t particularly new, economists have known this for a while. I only happen to think it ought to be better...
What do blockchains accomplish
What do blockchains accomplish?
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Even a Bag of Words Has a World Model
Skeptics call linear probes that recover geography from an LLM 'mere statistics.' But compression is the discovery of structure — even a plain bag-of-words model of text builds a world...
Thoughts on inscriptions
“Inscriptions” became a popular way to create NFTs on Bitcoin earlier in 2023 and have picked up significantly in the past month. However, they are, in many ways, a step...
