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ThinkingAgain | 1 year ago | on: How LLMs Work, Explained Without Math

Can it also explain the following: "An alien named abcdpqrs landed on earth yesterday. What is the name of the alien who landed yesterday on earth?"

Chatgpt answers it correctly. abcdpqrs is perhaps not in the training set. If it is we can pick some othername.

ThinkingAgain | 2 years ago | on: What does the cerebellum do?

“It’s a big job, but it’s not easy.” - Is this a problem? The way I understand this sentence is that: "It is a big job, and you might be excited about it, but it is not easy".

When talking to someone with whom we have a good rapport and good context, this conversation can be done faster. Basically, I/O is slower than the CPU.

Some of the other sentences can also be explained in similar manner.

ThinkingAgain | 3 years ago | on: Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination

There are nice short videos which talks about racism and tries to make people less racist. Similarly in India it would be good to develop such short videos so that people can become sensitive on this topic of caste and become a better society.

Example video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDPTVEqkGa4

ThinkingAgain | 3 years ago | on: Google cancelled a talk on caste bias

I was also initially surprised when I heard about caste based discrimination in USA. There are few points which helped me in understanding: 1) Personally a person may not have seen or heard of sexual harassment incidents. It doesn't mean "sexual harassment" doesn't exist. 2) Even if a lower caste person is not being discriminated, but if the person is feeling "uncomfortable" about revealing his/her caste it means that there is something wrong in the society which needs to be fixed. (very much like racism)

As such USA does much better job of telling about racism, then India does about casteism.

However India did a superb job of asking Dr.Ambedkar to write the constitution, by which the upper caste will abide. I am not aware of any other society which has said, "we believe in equality and will allow someone who was discriminated to make the rules by which we all will live".

ThinkingAgain | 4 years ago | on: Trapped in Silicon Valley’s hidden caste system

Indeed the children introducing themselves in US with their caste is a thing to be highlighted from the article. Really feel bad about what we are teaching our kids. I am in India not in US, but did not expect this even in India today.

ThinkingAgain | 4 years ago | on: Trapped in Silicon Valley’s hidden caste system

Thanks for this perspective on sexual harassment. It helped me realize that eventhough I have not seen it, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I have never seen sexual harassment but am certain it exists.

I was thinking the problem is limited to India and will not get carried over to US or tech industry in India.

Was not expecting to see caste system in US too and was doubting if it was real. I had heard one story where adults in US were introducing themselves with caste. This story talks about even the kids are introducing with their caste. What are we teaching kids?

Every Indian should read this. It doesn't matter if you discriminate or not, the person suffering is not dealing with just you but lots of people. Even if a small percentage discriminate that is bad enough for that person to feel vulnerable for long time.

ThinkingAgain | 4 years ago | on: Neural Networks from Scratch

After reading the tutorial I was not sure why it was called backpropagation. Thanks for the Colah's blog link. I think the two links together explains the things beautifully. Backpropagation seems just like an optimization for the gradient descent calculation as per Colah's blog.

ThinkingAgain | 5 years ago | on: America's 1% Has Taken $50T From the Bottom 90%

I have been thinking what is the best way to solve inequality. There are two problems one is wealth creation and other is wealth distribution. - Communism doesn't do a good job of wealth creation. - Capitalism doesn't do a good job of wealth distribution and causes inequality.

-Increasing the taxes, only gives money to the government and my impression is they are not efficient in using money so overall the wealth of the society doesn't increase.

If we limit how much a rich person can hold in large companies as stock, will it force the rich people to invest in small companies? Now we will have a mechanism of spreading the wealth by the rich person who knows how to use money efficiently. However the rich person will still become richer, not sure yet how to solve it completely. Maybe inheritance law should be changed so that once the person dies all his wealth goes to the employees in some fashion.