The hashing trick is an old technique from sparse linear models, well known in toolkits like Vowpal Wabbit. It's one of the unusual things I did in @spacy_io 's models that I've always felt was quite neat, and needed more experiments and write up.
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Twitter’s algorithmic nature: even non-algorithmic feeds remain algorithmic
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Even the non-algorithmic is sort of algorithmic though, because it shows stuff your followers have liked. There’s no way to make twitter just show you tweets by people you follow
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Prodigy Software: Traditional Licensing Model with One-Time Fee
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If you don't have Prodigy, you can get a copy here: http://
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SBF’s AI Safety Funding as Justification for Crimes
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Ostensibly, the funding to AI (especially AI safety) forms a key part of the motivation for SBF's crimes. Now, "motive" is never simple, but it's likely at least a factor in how SBF justified the crimes to himself. This was the end to supposedly justify the means.
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Questioning AI Safety Prize Funding Source and FTX Connection
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Request for Timeline on Anthropic’s FTX Comment
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Anthropic urged to unwind FTX investment amid fraud scandal
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@AnthropicAI will you commit to unwinding the ~$500m investment from FTX, if the new CEO requests that? Obviously you wouldn't have accepted the investment if you knew it was stolen money. But you know now, and if everyone prefers this didn't happen, there must be a solution. -
Explosion AI hiring Infrastructure Engineer and Data Engineer roles
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We need at least one new Infrastructure Engineer to come work with us at @explosion_ai The role is fully remote, with some preference for European timezones. We also have a new data engineering position advertised! https://
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