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Joel Bernstein

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  1. We really have not made a lot of progress on explaining the core deep mystery of LLMs:

    How does a model using matrix multiplication to predict the next word manage to simulate human thought well enough to do all the very human-like things it does? And what does that mean about us and our thinking?

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  2. august 27, 2025 marks the 20th anniversary of PENIS appearing in the new york times sunday crossword, clued as "The ___ mightier..."

    congrats to crosswords! the pen is truly mightier than the sword. or pencil if you are a more timid solver i guess

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  3. Your law students/law firm coworkers should never have used this tool; Open AI has been clear that they would disclose information to law enforcement this entire time

    But since APPARENTLY this has to be said several THOUSAND times before people digest it,

    DO NOT f***ing use this, lawyers

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  4. Listen kids:

    Sometimes you just want to play a video game with all the cheats turned on and that's absolutely okay. That's the flannel jammie pants and t-shirt of gaming and it's perfectly valid.

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