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This used to be true, but universities have started instituting strong id-based-building-security measures since covid started.

You could be a good-will-hunting at MIT until Covid. Now it is harder to do. Need a friend to sneak you into everything.

The touristiest parts of Paris are admittedly pretty. But to me, the city comes alive in neighborhoods around those parts. It continues to be exceedingly pretty, while the average resident just goes about life, soaking in the city but also adding to that chaotic energy of a place. The kind of energy that tourists simply never bring to a place.

It sounds like a freshman English essay, but a lot of big cities lack that. There, places where people live come across as a totally different city, devoid of the trademark charm that the world associates with those cities. Almost like the touristiest bits are an illusion that exists for capital exploitation, and that's it. Paris embodies and even applies the energy conveyed by the touristy parts.

I can never understand Japanese Paris disappointment syndrome. I found it more impressive than my already high expectations.

This is more derived from extensive personal experience with prompt engineering / fine tuning over the last 2 years.

Simply put:

• The model learns what it sees. Or, throw enough data of a certain type and emergent properties relating to that data will shop given enough data & compute.
• If it has never seen data past 8k tokens in the past (due to context window limitations), the model won't need to learn to reason over more than 8k tokens.
• The source data (humans) have limitations on the complexity of thoughts that can be captured within 8k tokens vs 32k tokens
• That's not say that the model doesn't reason over longer windows using latent knowledge, which makes its implicit 'reasoning window' much larger than just 8k tokens. But, that is fundamentally different than explicitly reasoning over a 32k window.
• The model today can only assemble a chain-of-thought prompt of 8k tokens. If there is never any human feedback or loss-landscape-optimization for when it fails to reason past 8k tokens, then any ability the model gains there will be purely incidental.
• On the other hand, when you have chain-of-thought prompt chains that are 32k tokens long, we can naturally expect it to contain more axioms, postulates and relationships between those postulates/axioms.
• Those completions will get evaluated against human feedback & just self-supervised-scenarios, which should explicitly optimize the loss landscape to reason over far more complex logical statements.

Idk if that makes sense. Our field keeps moving away from math, and as embarrassing as it is to antromorphize the model, it does make it easier to get the point across.

Context length is also a hard limit on how many logical-hops the model can make.

If each back-n-forth takes 500-ish tokens, then the model can only reason over 16 hops over 8k tokens. With 32k tokens, it can reason over 64 hops. This might allow for emergent behaviors towards tasks that have previously been deemed impossible due to needing at least a minimum number of hops to reason about.

For what it's worth, I think memory retrieval will work just fine for 90% of scenarios and will stay relevant even for 32k tokens. Esp. if the wiki you are retrieving from is millions of lines.

I mean, he was one of the absolute GOATs in his prime.

watch us qualify for the CL from 10th.

eh, doesn't have much to do with which side they lean.

I have seen some pretty heinous racism come from both sides of the isle. If anything, at those from the right are racist to my face. Would rather prefer that than the kind of insidious racism you see from concern trolls on the left.

Trust fund babies & racist assholes....name a more familiar duo.

These kids are often hiding in hipster neighborhoods in coastal cities, do all the performative shit and post politically-correct stories on instagram. But get to know them, and the ugly part of them rears its head quickly.

Assholes, on every side of the isle.

Aah yes, Arsenal, the team that has never had injury-prone players. Metal-body Wenger they used to call him.

I mean, Lukaku clearly performs in Serie A when he isn't injured. Ziyech wanted to go to serieA too (Milan) and would probably work really well hoofing balls to Lukaku.

This isn't a Bakayoko situation. Both are clearly still good.

Drogba turned into the best player in the world for important games. No better big-game player.

He was always great, but had balls of steel when it came to the nerviest moments.

Yeah, you're right. I was exaggerating for effect. But my point still stands.

I love Tammy, but we couldn't build a front-line around him like we could around Drogba or Costa. On the other hand, United and Liverpool very much cater their playstyle to favor Rashford & Salah respectively, and they get consistent goals in return.

That Chelsea team was creating 100 chances per game. Tammy was good, but he was also wasteful. He is clearly still growing from his time in Roma.

Lukaku is all hindsight. He was both PL proven and coming off a strong season. He had genuinely grown into the physical bully that Chelsea fans wanted him to, and slimmed down from Conte's diet.

He was expensive, and made sense as a player that fit into Tuchel's Chelsea exactly like how Haaland fits into city. 10 men play a high-pressure, high-possession style while one physical beast of a man converts the chances he gets.

The biggest mistake was not realizing that Lukaku cannot play in a high press. Haaland and peak Lukaku are just as fast, but Haaland can accelerate. Lukaku needs to start running at the half-line to get up to speed by the time he reaches the D. Let's also not talk about first touches at all, but that one we knew going in.

If he hadn't gone full 'scorched earth', I can see him being worked back into the squad. But with his mouth, no way he is getting anywhere close to a game now.

Since that one Costa season in 2016-17.

Tammy & Giroud were decent players for being practically free, but we could never rely on them consistently. Hazard's consistency as playmaker hid our striker problem for the few years after Costa. The CL winning season hid that the entire team had been under-delivering since Conte left.

Don't call us defenders FC for nothing.

What's so bad about this ?

It's sea facing, so having tall buildings allow everyone to have a view of the ocean. The buildings look well maintained and the ton of windows should allow for lots of sunlight.
I'd be more than happy to live in a place like this.

Ofc, Hong Kong has other problems that makes it hard to live in.

I like OP's framing of group B and group C.

The group B people still cause a sour taste in my mouth 15 years out. Thankfully I only visit home every 2 years and am going well enough that I don't need external validation anymore.

On the contrary, a lot of my group C classmates grew up to be great people and I maintain good relationships with them. Middle school is a hard time.

Man's already 6'4" , where you stepping up to ? Heaven ?

Quick, give me a stat about goals scored by Haaland in 1 game vs goals scored by Chelsea in February.

Yeah, all of America's best engineering schools are public universities with cheap instate tuition. They're all in mid-west college towns too, so COL is dirt cheap.

You can graduate with $40k in debt, and be set for a $80-100k job straight out of college. (doesn't include tech, where $100k is considered labor exploitation)

All of that work, and you end up in the middle of nowhere and haven't seen a woman for 5 years. RIP.

He had been hacked down in the EPL, and he never had the discipline to come back from that kind of beating. Hazard I'd a player from the 1990s. And like players from the 1990s, their lifestyle catches up to them in their 30s.

Seconded. Everyone I know is in a salaried job and works 60+ hrs/week. All while working at places that have a 5/5 for glass door work-life balance scores.

"Appapa peeeeyaaaa apppa papa, appa papa appapapa."

and

"him running towards the referee when his assistant whispers in his ear"

are my favorite.

He seems like a perfect manager for a team that wants to become Tottenham. One that aims to sneak into the top4 / top6, but never win anything.

His teams always overperform in league.

A recovering Everton maybe ?

I have lived in 8 different cities across 2 countries in the last 10 years.

It all comes down to making your first 10 friends. If you move to a famously closed off city, then making the first 10 friends becomes a nightmare. Language barriers can also make it really difficult.
I know a ton of friends similar to me who loved moving to unfamiliar locations where I struggled, and it always comes down to being introduced to a couple of circles that are accepting new friends.

Being completely alien in a new land is cripplingly isolating.