oh i like how instead of using a special 'sleep' to wait between animation frames he just does a for loop from 1 to 100 lol
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Why Subroutines Matter in Assembly Programming
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by the way this made me realize why subroutines help you out a lot in assembly. i thought you could just always use goto but if you want to call the function more than once you wont know which line to go back to at the end so you need a special 'call subroutine' and a 'return'
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The Appeal of Retro Apple II Programming Projects
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the masculine urge to buy an old apple ii and program little games and animations on it in your spare time
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Career reputation risks in technology advocacy and idea promotion
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(i've also heard that you can get a reputation for doing this sort of thing and it doesn't pay off in the long run of a career promoting your ideas)
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Truth Over Self in Research: Why Academics Avoid Self-Promotion
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but I think the reason why people don't do this more is that good researchers are concerned with presenting the *truth*, putting the importance of the ideas above the importance of the self
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Scientific Publishing Integrity and Deceptive Result Presentation Risks
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a weird quirk about publishing in science is that it's really easy to be deceptive in your presentation of results. can be trivial to find loopholes in a complex system that only you fully understand
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Superhuman AI Capabilities Discussion
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don't think so, at least the reason why I chose this example is that it feels superhuman, or at least only within the capabilities of a very small group of humans
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Will larger language models eventually enable critical infrastructure attacks?
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Imagine this prompt: "write me Python code to disable the NYC subway system" obviously gpt-4 can't do this now. It'll refuse, but even if we jailbreak it, it'll answer incorrectly but if we keep training bigger & better language models, won't one eventually be able to do this?
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Simultaneous Discovery of Task and Function Vectors in AI
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simultaneous discovery of “task vectors” and “function vectors” is another interesting case in a long history of different people in different places having the same idea at the same time just like calculus, the telephone, prefix tuning…
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Data Value and ChatGPT Pricing Models
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guess it really depends on (i) the value of this type of data and (ii) chatGPT pricing