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I might have applied quite heavily the filter (increased saturation, etc.) but only in order to be truthful to the sensation. Photo taken November 14, 2025 at 8:23 AM, local time.
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In the previous rambling, Randomness in LLMs, preamble 1, I tried to illustrate how the LLMs I’m familiar with inherently use randomness to generate their answers and as such do effortlessly something that we humans are not very good at – at least I’m terrible at playing the categories game, or at coming up with a…
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I am amazed by the ease with which an LLM like ChatGPT can come up with random “ideas” – initially the LLM picks one token in a probability distribution of tokens, then it repeats this operation for the next token, etc., and in the end you get a random “thought” from a distribution of phrases…
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On The Climate Brink, Zeke Hausfather writes: We are already geoengineering the planet today, but badly. Humans are cooling the climate today by emitting 75 million metric tons of sulfur dioxide into the lower atmosphere, almost entirely as a byproduct of burning fossil fuels. This cooling offsets about 0.5C of warming that would have otherwise occurred from…