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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 13-Aug-2023 17:40:40 JST Aral Balkan

   We call it AI because no one would take us seriously if we called it matrix multiplication seeded with a bunch of initial values we pulled out of our asses and run on as much shitty data as we can get our grubby little paws on.

   #AI #ArtificalIntelligence #MachineLearning #LLM #LargeLanguageModels

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     Koantig (koantig@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 13-Aug-2023 17:46:59 JST Koantig

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     @aral
     "To paraphrase provocatively, 'machine learning is statistics minus any checking of models and assumptions'."
     -- Brian D. Ripley (about the difference between machine learning and statistics)
     useR! 2004, Vienna (May 2004)

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 02:12:07 JST Aral Balkan

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     • LeRoc

     @leroc Odd, it was correct enough for me to write a machine learning implementation myself while playing around with the concepts. Does the one you wrote work differently?

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     LeRoc (leroc@musician.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 02:12:08 JST LeRoc

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     @aral That's because the second description is incorrect.