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LLMs Do Not Predict the Next Word

RLHF forces us to view LLMs as agents in an environment, not just statistical models.

Apr 3

LLMs Do Not Predict the Next Word

Apr 3

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Someone using AI won’t take your job. AI will

AI agents threaten to make people redundant, even those who learn to use AI. The only solution is to achieve mastery and outcompete AI.

May 22

The Sistine Chapel, full of intricate frescoes.

May 22

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Why AI Can’t Do Your Laundry

Too often, AI does what we humans want to do, and not what we can’t or won’t do.

Jan 17

Why AI Can’t Do Your Laundry

Jan 17

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TDS Archive

Predicting Every Election Since 1916

How “election pundit predictions” betray a misunderstanding of probability

Nov 8, 2024

Predicting Every Election Since 1916

Nov 8, 2024

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Can Transformers Solve Everything?

Looking into the math and the data reveals that transformers are both overused and underused.

Oct 1, 2024

Can Transformers Solve Everything?

Oct 1, 2024

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Cantor’s Paradise

Connecting Covariance and Rotational Inertia

A surprisingly deep connection between statistics and classical mechanics

Sep 5, 2024

Connecting Covariance and Rotational Inertia

Sep 5, 2024

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TDS Archive

A Fresh Look at Nonlinearity in Deep Learning

The traditional reasoning behind why we need nonlinear activation functions is only one dimension of this story.

Aug 15, 2024

A Fresh Look at Nonlinearity in Deep Learning

Aug 15, 2024

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EDA for Word Embeddings

Data scientists use EDA for everything. Why not word embeddings?

Jul 12, 2024

EDA for Word Embeddings

Jul 12, 2024

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Technological Singularity

Predict Your Local Climate with the Dot Product and ODEs

With just the dot product, ordinary differential equations, and some physics, you can estimate the climate where you are.

Apr 11, 2024

Predict Your Local Climate with the Dot Product and ODEs

Apr 11, 2024

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Level Up Coding

Secure Your Messaging App with Block Cipher Encryption

How can you securely send messages so they only reach the intended recipient? In this post, we’ll explain how and build a demo in code.

Feb 12, 2024

Secure Your Messaging App with Block Cipher Encryption

Feb 12, 2024

Harys Dalvi

Harys Dalvi

I'm Harys, a CS/Physics student at Brown University. I write about science and technology here and on my blog harysdalvi.com

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