LAURA MCPHEE B. 1958 GUARDIANS OF SOLITUDE

"If we keep on optimizing the proxy objective, even after our goal stops improving, something more worrying happens. The goal often starts getting worse, even as our proxy objective continues to improve. Not just a little bit worse either — often the goal will diverge towards infinity. This is an extremely general phenomenon in machine learning. It mostly doesn't matter what our goal and proxy are, or what model architecture we use. If we are very efficient at optimizing a proxy, then we make the thing it is a proxy for grow worse."

Too much efficiency makes everything worse: overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart's law

The best humor punches. This is because the best humor is mutual combat.

One of the most boring forms of discourse is when two opposing sides are like, "They're hypocrites!" "No, they're the hypocrite!"

I was today years old when I learned that there were two cities named Thebes (one in Greece and one in Egypt)

September. "Septem" ... as in the number seven. Yes, it is the ninth month of the year. Romans, smh.

during summer: i can't wait for winter

during winter: i can't wait for summer

The percentage of people from the world population capable of following a written argument is probably very small.

Cladonia sp. / Begerlav sp.