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If y’all don’t want me talking about how to succeed on Substack you can go read my fiction Substack that currently has 22 subscribers compared to 48,000 for my nonfiction one.
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LLMs are great at language, but have a lot of ground to cover at tasks like reasoning. In this post, i discuss why overloading todays LLMs with terms like AGI is problematic. Instead of forcing AGI, why not use them as a language center that calls specialized tools?
The first flag is starting to show up on government department websites. I don’t know when or who … however, I’m bothered by the lack of respect shown by using an emoji, when you could just as easily use an accurate icon. No company I’ve ever worked with would allow this kind of disrespect to the company’s logo.
Just another nit … but a telling one.
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American writer conundrum: the civic duty to write about politics vs. the disinclination to let that toxicity near our writing
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Our friend and great film critic Luis Mendez talking Oscars, politics, film industry, Marvel & Disney on the struggle bus, and more!
