fun research idea: Latent chain-of-thought / Latent scratchpad it's well-known that language models perform better when they generate intermediate reasoning tokens through some sort of 'scratchpad'. but there's no reason scratchpad tokens need to be human-readable. in fact,
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Google’s AI Model: Closer Than Expected to AGI
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eh I don't think there's anything laughable about it; it's quite a good model; just a bit further from AGI than GPT-4 I guess. wouldn't be surprised if Google found a way to serve it much more cheaply though.
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LMSYS Chatbot Arena Head-to-Head Comparison Discussion
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this is a good point, for the head-to-head lmsys chatbot arena you are right!
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GPT-4 Outperforms Gemini: Google’s AI Strategy Misstep
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Seen a lot of evidence that GPT-4 crushes Gemini on all the head-to-head LM benchmarks. here's my theory about what went wrong: – chatGPT released
– google execs freak out
– google consolidates (integrates Deepmind, Brain)
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Machine Learning Research: Room for Niche Ideas in High-Dimensional Space
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i used to find this kind of thing intimidating – ML is so popular, competitive, etc
— dr. jack morris (@jxmnop) 16 décembre 2023
but I realized how different every paper is. each presenter here traveled down one single esoteric rabbit hole
high-dimensional spaces are so sparse; there's still plenty of room for your ideas https://t.co/U7jR3OefBJi used to find this kind of thing intimidating – ML is so popular, competitive, etc but I realized how different every paper is. each presenter here traveled down one single esoteric rabbit hole high-dimensional spaces are so sparse; there's still plenty of room for your ideas
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Beyond Language: Why GPT-4 Needs Training Data
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long story short, my task can't be completed by GPT-4; the data isn't only language, it includes continuous vectors, so you really need training data for this
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Iterative Translation Optimization Using BLEU Score Maximization
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i was essentially doing translation 1000 times, computing the BLEU scores of the translations, and returning the max BLEU score …
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Importance of bug verification before publishing code
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thank goodness I waited to send my tweet until i confirmed the presence of a bug your mentor would be so proud
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PhD Student’s Journey: From Idea to Breakthrough Research Results
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the saga of a phd student > last week, have ground breaking research idea (so i think, anyway)
> two days ago, write sloppy prototype code for idea > yesterday, run experiments, collect results
> wow, results surprisingly good
> this is so cool, that was easy
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Grateful for Computer-Based Scientific Research
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it's times like these i feel thankful to do my science on the computer
