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Zachary Charles

@MatharyCharles
distributed machine learning @ google | sometimes mathematician
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  • @MatharyCharles
    Zachary Charles
    @MatharyCharles
    Aug 21
    How much of writing style is determined by a kind of bundling of what you've been exposed to? And can you mimic this with models that have seen as much text as AIs have? Also some people really just have weird writing styles that you only grow to appreciate over time. Unclear
    @emollick
    Ethan Mollick
    @emollick
    Aug 20
    Even when LLMs write well, the lack of variety in style is crippling. Reading the same prose in your instructions & social media & advertisements & software & PowerPoint eventually makes one queasy Prompting only gets you so far. Real variation is needed (and under-researched)
  • @MatharyCharles
    Zachary Charles
    @MatharyCharles
    Aug 19
    I've become so TPU-brained that I think in terms of per-tensor shardings, rather than communication collectives. I don't think this is a net positive, but I think it can be useful!
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  • @MatharyCharles
    Zachary Charles
    @MatharyCharles
    Aug 19
    This rules - experimentation in how to communicate math and computer science is vastly underexplored. This reminds me of one the most interesting (and successful IMO) experiments in math thesis writing I've seen. theliberatedmathematician.com/wp-content/upl…
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    @DanielWhiteson
    Daniel Whiteson
    @DanielWhiteson
    Aug 19
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    Hand painted artisanal science posters should be the new craze.
  • @MatharyCharles
    Zachary Charles
    @MatharyCharles
    Aug 13
    Doesn't this just mean that fewer apartments allow dogs, or try to provide shared amenities? There are junk fees worth scrapping but that word is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
    @RepJayapal
    Rep. Pramila Jayapal
    House Democrats
    @RepJayapal
    Aug 13
    Starting July 1, 2027, landlords in Seattle will be prohibited from charging tenants junk fees, including pet rent, mail fees, and common area charges. This is an important step towards making our city more affordable for renters. kuow.org/governing/2026…
  • @MatharyCharles
    Zachary Charles
    @MatharyCharles
    Aug 13
    Animal crossing is a game about the community benefits of offering low interest mortgages to first time homeowners.
    @moultano
    Ryan Moulton
    @moultano
    Apr 22
    One way of demonstrating the benefit of credit to the economy is that every economy building game would be totally broken by adding access to credit in the early game.
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