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You can see an example of the Chain of Thought in the post, it's quite extensive. Presumably they don't want to release this so that it is raw and unfiltered and can better monitor for cases of manipulation or deviation from training. What GP is also referring to is explicitly stated in the post: they also aren't release the CoT for competitive reasons, so that presumably competitors like Anthropic are unable to use the CoT to train their own frontier models.


> Presumably they don't want to release this so that it is raw and unfiltered and can better monitor for cases of manipulation or deviation from training.

My take was:

1. A genuine, un-RLHF'd "chain of thought" might contain things that shouldn't be told to the user. E.g., it might at some point think to itself, "One way to make an explosive would be to mix $X and $Y" or "It seems like they might be able to poison the person".

2. They want the "Chain of Thought" as much as possible to reflect the actual reasoning that the model is using; in part so that they can understand what the model is actually thinking. They fear that if they RLHF the chain of thought, the model will self-censor in a way which undermines their ability to see what it's really thinking

3. So, they RLHF only the final output, not the CoT, letting the CoT be as frank within itself as any human; and post-filter the CoT for the user.


RLHF is one thing, but now that the training is done it has no bearing on whether or not you can show the chain of thought to the user.


Agreed. It's mainlined a lot of plugins that I used to use in Chrome and default keyboard shortcuts that I would have chosen myself. Window management, spaces, and automated tab lifecycles are by far the most valuable features I use.


When does the møøse arc begin in Twitter's storyline?


As soon as the møøse bites Eløn's sister.


Probably goes with the Llamas by Ford of Brazil


"Yet" is the operative word. Many banks were insolvent in 2008, or have we so quickly forgotten the lessons from the housing crisis.


I do this regularly, and to the extent that I'm able I put the task in the description so that my team knows more or less what I'm prioritizing. You can also create recurring OOO and Focus Time events now, so I have lunch blocked off and 30min at the end of each day to prepare for the next. It's a secret super power to staying on top of things and creating rituals that help me sign off at a reasonable hour instead of sliding into unproductively and less time with family.

Really, my only gripe with Google Calendar at this point is that you can't define custom colors nor label those colors. I use that feature heavily now to give me an at a glance view of which projects or activities my time is going to on a weekly basis. The colors don't have consistency across months though because I have to re-use colors for different purposes.


The ability to create a recurring Focus Time event has been game changing!


> I saw a crow (or a raven, never quite sure)

Assuming you mean it's difficult to tell the difference, as opposed to just in this case:

Telling them apart is fairly straightforward! Crows are smaller, have a flatter tail, and typically flap quite a bit during flight. Ravens, by comparison, are much larger in size, have a diamond-shaped tail that moves quite a bit during flight, and typically glide during flight.

Love the whole family of corvids :D as well as your story!


> Telling them apart is fairly straightforward!

I would like to point out that your description of how straightforward it is to tell them apart very humorously belies how it is not at all straightforward because all of your proposed evaluations are implicitly relative to something not seen.

> Crows are smaller, have a flatter tail, and typically... Ravens, by comparison...

If you see one bird, is that bird smaller or larger? Is its tail more flat or less? Smaller than what? Flatter than what? Flappier than what? Without seeing both, a lay individual can't easily evaluate "by comparison".


If you think woah that is one huge crow, than it’s probably a raven I find the easiest tell. Also the sound is a bit off and on the higher end I believe. And also their beak is more curved but that’s often hard to spot and not too reliable


You're doing it too. "bigger", "more curved", "higher sound". All of those are comparative. None of them help you know a raven or a crow except in relation to some idealized specimen of the other, which one likely doesn't have in front of them.


I'll take the bait. Ravens' beaks are hooked s.t. the top curves slightly around the bottom, an over beak if you will. The crow's beak is roughly conical and does not hook in this manner.

Additionally the raven's beak is is longer than it's head is wide (in profile). A crow's beak from the same view is approximately the same length as it's head.


> Ravens' beaks are hooked

This one sounds pretty good. Thanks (finally)! From a cursory search on the subject, it seems like one might need to be relatively close to be able to tell?


Maybe. A challenge in birding is getting close enough to look at things without scaring them away. The thing about both crows and ravens is they are (relatively) unafraid of humans. So, you shouldn't struggle much to get a good enough look to differentiate.

That's assuming Ravens are present in your area. One of the first things the guide books teach is to differentiate based on range. E.g. a candidate crow/Raven in Iowa is most likely a crow, since Ravens' range doesn't include the great plains.

Let me finish by plugging birding as a relaxing pastime that doesn't require much investment (just a $25 guide book for your area), and can really enhance any time spent out doors.


How could you tell apart an adolescent raven from a crow that had injured its beak, though? Each of you is making something relative to something else. The beaks are hooked. How hooked? Conical as opposed to what?


Well bigger in the sense that’s it’s easy to have the feeling of awe when looking at a black bird. If in awe it’s probably a raven.


"Feeling of awe" is an assessment of you, not the bird. I feel awe from sparrows, and there are some absolutely gorgeous black chickens out there.


In this case a better indicator is that Ravens can use thermal winds to effectively float in the air, while crows can't and have to flap.


"Can/can't" isn't a great general indicator, because "doesn't" doesn't imply "can't" except circumstantially. If you see a bird floating, it might be a raven. If you see a bird not floating, you still have no idea.


Personally, when I see crows or ravens flying I often can't see their tail and I often can't quite tell how large they are. I find it easier to distinguish their call, a crow sounds like "caw" and a raven sounds like "gronk".


Indeed, Edmund Cooper wrote a sci-fi novel called Kronk, after an utterance by a raven.


The difference is a matter of a pinion - one has one more pinion feather than the other.

No, I don't know which. Heck, I don't even know what distinguishes a pinion from other feathers on the wing.


Uh well, along with others I'll just share how I differentiate them since both are common where I live.

3 Ways

1) if you can get a good look at the tail, think croW = wider/more or less even at the bottom, raVen = V like at the bottom (or diamond as a whole) but it's just a mnemonic and makes more sense if you see this http://naturemappingfoundation.org/natmap/images/drawings/ra...

2) Their calls are very distinct, hear one then hear the other and you won't confuse them at all but that requires having heard both and knowing which is which and I won't even bother to try to explain, you can find a million videos/etc. demonstrating if you really care.

3) Beak, ravens have a slightly curved tip usually and crows... don't but it's hard to see this because of the color, so again, depends on what you can observe


I can tell the crows and ravens apart in my region but I have to wonder how relativistic comparisons are. From what I've seen of hooded crows, I would be more inclined to categorize them as ravens, but there are probably larger ravens in their regions.


I live in an area with hooded crows and ravens. The ravens are a bit larger, but they aren't massively larger.

On the other hand, as long as there is enough light, you can always tell them apart because the hooded crows have a lot of grey so long as they are fully grown (young hooded crows are darker than adults)


I grew up in a forestland environment. Most of the adult ravens I saw along the roadside out-of-town (usually not bothered by cars driving by) were about the size of a chicken. Crows, as a rule ... were a lot smaller.


"if you think its a raven, its a crow, and if you think its a crow its a raven" so goes the classic quote.

one recent quote i heard on the bus: "ravens are near humans, crows are in the country"


Absolutely the opposite, loads of crows in the city, few ravens if any.

Above holds true in Western US and Eastern Canada at least.


In my area, I see crows all the time, sitting on power lines and messing with posters on the street and so on. These are hooded crows and easy to distinguish from ravens. I see ravens as well, but not quite as often - though one of my local grocery stores has a small flock (murder!) of ravens that likes to forage in the parking lot. And to be fair, I live in a decently sized city of around 180,000.


> Ravens, by comparison, are much larger in size

The problem is, they are rarely sitting next to each other so I can tell which one is larger.


I used to feel like I could always tell them apart, but the crows (I think?) in SF are very large


I think the Northern California crows are larger than their east coast counterparts, so I agree, it is harder to tell them apart by size here. Ravens are larger still, though. If you see one in San Francisco, it's probably a crow. Occasionally you get a raven in Oakland but those are usually crows as well. If you get out to Mount Diablo you'll see both crows and ravens out there.


Agreed, this made my day! Such a fun idea and well executed.


I find that Linux devotees often leave out the compromises they've made in their computing choices. Thank you for stating yours, it helps contextualize the reasons for choosing Ubuntu!


This is a curious position to take given that it's mostly a personal choice. People will like what they like, and that's perfectly fine! No need to denigrate frontend devs, or anyone, for a stylistic choice.


I'm fine with people having aesthetic choices. I find front-end developers and their fashions mildly annoying.

I think this post would fit very well at /r/unixporn, similar to ASCII art, pixellated graphics or low poly models.


This is quite literally nothing but a website letting you preview how fonts look. What's "r/unixporn" about that? What a bunch of condescending baloney.


I wouldn't consider them rules inasmuch as they're things to keep in mind when working in a Haskell codebase, in much the same way GoF has been useful for OO programmers for decades.

Can you write code without using a pattern from GoF? Sure. Will it work? Probably. Does that make GoF useless? No, I'd think not. This type of content is immensely valuable for beginner and practitioner alike because it starts to build a shared language with which to talk about how codebases are organized :)


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