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Pseudonyms in American History
Debates around the ratification of the Constitution and the early formation of the United States happened through pseudonymous authors.
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Fairchildren
In 1956, William Shockley, Stanford professor and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on semiconductors, recruited a team of young Ph.D.
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ChatGPT After One Year
ChatGPT was released on November 30th 2022.
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McNamara Fallacy
The McNamara Fallacy is named after Robert McNamara, the US Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War.
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Data Quality in LLMs
Good data is the difference between Mistral’s LLMs and Llama, which share similar architectures but different datasets.
Discord and AI GTM
Midjourney is the largest discord server, with 16.5 million total users.
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo methods are used in almost every branch of science: to evaluate risk in finance, to generate realistic lighting and shadows in 3D graphics…
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