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Retrieval Augmented Generation Research: 2017-2024 Q4 (32+ Paper Summaries)
RAG literature review including: REPLUG, Fusion-in-Decoder, KNN-LM, RETRO, FLARE, Knowledge Graph Fusion-in-Decoder, SILO, WebGPT, Toolformer, Self-RAG…
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Why All Job Displacement Predictions are Wrong: Explanations of Cognitive Automation
Most predictions about job displacement through large language models (LLMs) are wrong. This is because they don’t have good explanations of how LLMs…
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The Bioenergetic Explanation of Health
Health isn't just the absence of disease, but a state of unburdened and actualized physiological function. The quest for health requires hard-to-vary…
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Progress via Intellectual Progress
How the emerging field of progress studies is focused on low-level, downstream inputs to human progress but neglected the most upstream, enabling…
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Open-endedness in Society
Curiosity and Interestingness: Rethinking Education, Research, and the Power of Implicit Knowledge via Novelty.
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Transaction Cost and Risk Elimination: Lessons from Thiel, Rabois, Bezos, and Khosla
On the Nature of the Firm and Risks.
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Cognition Augmentation Software
Humans started using tools millions of years ago. Tools for Thought thousands of years ago, and only decades ago, developed Cognitive Augmentation…
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The 7 Best Optimistic Hard Sci-Fi Short Stories
Sci-fi stories as the shortcut to interesting ideas. Including pieces from Neal Stephenson's Project Hieroglyph and works from Ted Chiang and Max in…
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Co-Founding
After working on Benchflow.ai (ai eval platform) for ~half a year, I broke up with my co-founder this February.
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Bad Analogies
Most analogies and mental models are bad. David Deutsch wrote: Arguments by analogy are fallacies. Almost any analogy between any two things contains…
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On Accelerating the Growth of Knowledge & Wealth - with Logan Chipkin
Topics include Austrian Economics and Critical Rationalism, Black Box View of Government, Economic Creationism, Time Imperialists, Why Equality is…
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An Introduction to vLLM and PagedAttention
Achieving Optimal Memory Utilization in LLM Serving. How vLLM and PagedAttention improve Throughput by up to 24x.
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