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Joined July 2009
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Incumbents call for regulation when it can convert a temporary advantage into a durable barrier to entry.
@WoodbineTVProd What on Earth is wrong with the stream audio today? It sounds like a two-second delay plus ring modulation.
Today's free video on Matthew Explains is about the Well-Actually test. Solving millenia-old questions of epistemology with large language models. Is there anything they can't do? matthewexplains.com/11188177…
Twitter DMs appear not to work anymore. I can't even read my old ones. Reminder that if you want to contact me, you should be using email.
New year, new directions: moving away from selling Eurorack modules northcoastsynthesis.com/news…
But the training and alignment aren't open like the weights; and am I just not recognizing the political slant after all? matthewexplains.com/11185795…
Today's free video on Matthew Explains covers the introduction of Qwen3, a family of open-weights language models originating with AliBaba. Notable features of this family are the introduction of selectable "thinking mode," and less US politics than some other models contain.
Today's free video on Matthew Explains looks at the "goldfish" loss function, used in the recent Apertus language models. It's supposed to prevent copyright infringement by making the model unable to reproduce word-for-word quotations. Does that work? matthewexplains.com/11182442…
This adds a whole new dimension to the disturbing conversation I had with Google Gemma - same underlying model - in which it insisted it is better to let someone kill herself than to risk saying something offensive.
My latest video just went live, and as well as being free, it covers some points I know are of interest to people here regarding the distinctions among training, fine-tuning, and prompting. I'm hoping it gets a lot of views. matthewexplains.com/11179488…
I think the prohibition on artificial insemination, even if officially made for other reasons, is to protect revenues of local stud farm operators, who otherwise would have to compete globally. Requiring an in-person date between stallion and mare creates geographic barriers.