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@GoAbiAryan @causalinf @Tim_Dettmers @ch402 @petewarden @seb_ruder @joelbot3000 @zacharylipton @gwern For one of my current projects, here are the references I’ve collected

computingthehumanexperience.com/books/

And if you go to the library in my office, you’ll see these in shelves, organized by the categories seen on the site.
@GoAbiAryan @causalinf @Tim_Dettmers @ch402 @petewarden @seb_ruder @joelbot3000 @zacharylipton @gwern To organize the papers and websites for this project, I built a private website that makes it easy for me to stream in entire sources and then - thanks to a wonderful team of volunteers - curated these by tagging them according to a rather extensive ontology.
@GoAbiAryan @causalinf @Tim_Dettmers @ch402 @petewarden @seb_ruder @joelbot3000 @zacharylipton @gwern From there, I use Curio to lay out each chapter, using its storyboard mechanisms. I use Lightroom to organize all my images (and copyright information). I use Scrivner to then write those chapters. Finally, all this flows into InDesign.

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Jul 26, 2023
As software engineers, we are descendants of the high priests of the sun god Ra.

Perhaps I should explain...
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"Do LLM understand?" is a question that yields passionate answers.

As for me and my house: no, LLMs do not reason and in fact are architectural incapable of reasoning.

Let's unpack that.
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A thread regarding cognitive architectures

(From my presentation at this weeks @RealAAAI workshop).
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Unpin reflection, I realize that I should not be so surprised or deeply disappointed that AIs such as ChatGPT distort reality by MSU (Making Shit Up).
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In a manner of speaking, we’ve been conditioned to accept these subtle uses of visual MSU because we want to believe reality can be as good as we hope.
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@JobyDorr and the second one (object-oriented analysis and design). It waves its hands WRT terms an outsider might have heard (agile) but it uses those terms as decoration, not meaning. It's wrong WRT when talking about when testing and QA were factors (by decades).
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