Today
Joshua Rothman considers lookism—discrimination against people who are unattractive—and whether we should see it like other forms of discrimination, such as racism.
“Did you come here to fuck me?” he asks, gasping as Jack licks a line down his throat.
“I came here to help you get some goddamn sleep,” Jack says. “Fucking you’s a bonus.”awesome fringe books from 2004. love the site design and wanna check out the books.
Yesterday
These days, I’m exploring the field of natural language generation, using auto-regressive models such as GPT-2. HuggingFace transformers offers a host of pretrained language models, many of which can be used off the shelf with minimal fine-tuning. In this post, however, we will try to build a small GPT model from scratch using PyTorch. I’ve realized that sometimes I feel eerily insecure about using things without truly understanding how they work. This post is an attempt at understanding the GPT model. Turns out that its implementation is actually quite similar to the transformers implementation I wrote about in an earlier post, so you will see some repeats here and there. Also helpful was Karpathy’s minGPT repository, which I heavily referenced for this particular implementation. With that sorted, let’s get started!
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These are some products that I’m excitedly following (or am keen to get) because they’re technologies without the intent to dominate.
Free Ink is an open-source collective building the software, firmware and hardware for e-paper readers — every layer ships in the open for anyone to pick up, extend and make their own.
Continuing his quest for a healthier, more handsome Hitch, the author puts himself in the hands of four experts. Yes, a Brazilian wax was involved.
There’s an entire micro-economy based on the pursuit of betterment. The author—58, full-figured, and ferocious in his consumption of cigarettes and scotch—agreed to test its limits, starting with the Executive De-Stress Treatment at a high-end spa.