what yann lecun said: "the more tokens an llm generates, the more likely it is to go off the rails and get everything wrong"

what actually happened: "we get extremely high accuracy on arc-agi by generating billions of tokens, the more tokens we throw at it the better it gets" come to x and fight me yann

https://twitter.com/m_chimiste/status/1870950748697317398

update on kaist unfair dismissal trial:

i lost trial 3. reading the decision, it is apparent why: the judges refused to evaluate most of the arguments that i had made, and made some "interesting" interpretations of statements/wording in contracts

i am appealing. we go agane most interesting "interpretation" was the judges deciding that "your contract period is from 2022.x.y~2023.x.y" meant "your contract can start at minimum from 2022.x.y and can go maximum to 2023.x.y" (i.e., kaist could freely change the dates at will)

never work in korea fellas

when americans study the pacific theater of ww2, it starts with japan attacking the usa “for no reason at all”

japanese history starts with 50 prior years of american interference in east asia, intent on limiting japan’s regional power

which story sounds more believable the comments are blowing my mind. you guys think it was ok for the usa to cut japan off of resources "because it was expanding its territory"

should the usa have also embargoed the uk, france, and netherlands? they were expanding into asia as well

is it ok when youre white??

despite what you might see on the internet, japan is managing the transition to a multicultural society wonderfully. most long-term immigrants are learning japanese, and you can see half or fully non-japanese kids seeming to integrate without issues. lots of hope for the future groypers can’t read, who would have guessed it

83% of young korean women think of south korea as “hell” and 80% of them want to leave korea. if your mental model of south korea does not match this, it’s your mental model and not the data that is wrong english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_e…

>man speedruns learning entire japanese language in a few months
>shares tips for success with the internet
>reddit mods remove his post for seemingly no reason (the "spam filter" message comes up with mod removal)

crazy how r/learnjapanese is for everyone but japanese learners here's the content reddit mods don't want you to see: web.archive.org/web/2022012807…

[2024 kaist corruption scandal: the firing 🧵]

first, some background. as a government institution, kaist is required to put out public advertisements for positions, and hire "fairly". here is the advertisement i answered, for a 1 year contract: 13 sept 2022 to 12 sept 2023 despite the above, kaist is claiming that my contract period was from 1 nov 2022 to 28 march 2023 (less than 5 months). why? because they, unilaterally, made an "internal decision" to just wildly change my contract period *after i had begun working*

kaist fired me 10 days after i internally accused professor jinjoon lee of human rights violations. they, of course, could not use that as a reason for firing me. instead they claimed i was not coming to work, and produced this chart as evidence. it is entirely fabricated 👇

in the above chart you can see kaist accusing me of not coming to work at all on february 2. luckily for me, i happened to have a picture of my desk at that time (which i took because i was asked to send a picture of my signature to a student, and i was paranoid of them)

kaist @kaistpr professor jinjoon "vendetta" lee @jinjoon_lee forced me to send a fairly large sum of money to his wife's bank account, under threat of withdrawing an offer to be a postdoc in his lab. university leadership such as president kwang hyung lee did nothing about this kaist @kaistpr professor jinjoon "vendetta" lee @jinjoon_lee has also repeatedly reported me to the korean police in an attempt to intimidate me into silence, and to prevent me from speaking out against these issues

to give you a sense of how unhinged my former postdoc advisor was:

1) actually nearly 100% of the reason i grew this account was to get help in case i needed danger

2) i just checked his twitter and it looks like the below now, i have no doubt this is targeted directly at me i will still stay on x even if the danger goes away because i love you all

also huge thank you to @yacineMTB for boosting me all the way here because holy shit it may actually have saved my life

i was a postdoc at a korean university. one time i had plans with my girlfriend, so i told my boss i wouldn’t be coming in on saturday. he thought an appropriate response was to lock me in the lab monday (also a holiday) from 6pm to 5am, for a discussion about my work ethic

https://twitter.com/jimpethokoukis/status/1793079352999231584

two students in my lab had 5+ year boyfriends, which they both broke up with about 2 months into joining the lab

the professor was reported to the university for human rights issues by about 9 students/researchers (almost everyone he had ever advised), the university did nothing