A great, great introduction to LLMs and transformers — and a chance to ogle at OpenAI’s CTO! Covering attention, tokens, RLHF etc in 7 minutes enough for most. Persistent Python Nicholas Carlini’s great addition to Python DS stack — an environment state freezing machine! Briefly, it’s a ~100 line script that allows…

Cold water for AI You know what happens in cold water? Everything shrinks. Bing’s market share hasn’t grown at all. Bing’s share of search It’s still stuck at a lousy 3%. So did traffic to ChatGPT and other LLMs. What could be the possible reasons? People realize it’s no magic bullet — rather prone…

Another take by Psychopharmacology Institute. Brexanolone is a synthetic form of allopregnagolone, a GABA modulating neurosteroid The study had 216 participants, all women 18–45 with de novo MDD in their third trimester or within the first 4 weeks following delivery The drug was administered via a 60-hour injection (despite a…

AI flies a big-ass military drone (I like big drones and I cannot lie) Nothing particular on the algo: Autonomous Air Combat Operations team created algorithms for the flight that took millions of hours to mature in simulations Deployed a semi-autonomous traffic control system in late June (Capt. Terrence McKenna!) Combining MAOIs with… A not-so-brand-spanking-new prescriber’s guide. MAOIs remain…

An oncogene infographics piece. Credits to CancerQuest, an AWESOME database of illustrated + comprehensive overviews on different cancer mechanics, e.g. immune system. Shorties on genes p53 factor The major player, mutated in about 50% of human cancers. ANKRD11 is a coactivator of P53. HER-2/neu HER-2/neu encodes for a cell surface receptor that can stimulate cell division…

Mental models Paradox of unanimity

Okay, there are 40 of them, gotta start with something: Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, or Frequency Illusion Similar but contrary to inattentional blindness: you start seeing things you think of/search more often and think they’re more common. Hence motivated perception, the Secret, ‘Why is everyone speaking my language here arrghh’ etc etc. P.S. One of the links…

*puffs* DMT MoA An awesome take by Andrew Gallimore on DMT’s MoA. I’d reckon it generalizes on a wider range of psychedelics, e.g. 5-MeO-DMT and psilocin/other tryptamines at least. Takeaways: Our brain is an error-reducing Bayesian predictive machine. Yeah. Brain connectivity Structural: actual physical wiring of the brain, the synaptic connections between neurons; Effective: the…

Aand some interesting tips on therapy for each. Being attached to something someone is not anti-Buddhist and exclusive to BPD, it’s healthy and awesome if mutual — especially if you do it in style and in a healthy way 😌 As it turns out: Four attachment types have been identified…