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Text Highlight2026-08-17 08:31:20
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"Everyone knows what attention is."
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Attention is not a unitary phenomenon but an umbrella term for multiple related processes
Text Highlight2026-08-11 18:38:48
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"a comparison sort cannot perform better than O(n log n) on average"
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So that's why my custom sort is always slower than the built-in.
Text Highlight2026-08-11 12:32:48
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"the output of any sorting algorithm must satisfy two conditions"
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Even the definition sounds like a math test I'd fail.
Text Highlight2026-08-11 12:23:48
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"the output of any sorting algorithm must satisfy two conditions"
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So that's why my custom sort broke — missed condition two.
Text Highlight2026-08-11 12:14:48
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"the output of any sorting algorithm must satisfy two conditions"
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Two conditions? I thought it was just 'small to big' and done.
Text Highlight2026-08-09 21:06:31
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"Everyone knows what attention is."
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Classic quote, everyone knows what attention is until you ask them to define it.
Text Highlight2026-08-09 19:35:41
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"Hashing is an example of a space–time tradeoff."
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Ha, the infinite time option sounds like my last interview coding challenge.
Text Highlight2026-08-09 19:26:41
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"Hashing is an example of a space–time tradeoff."
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But if memory was infinite, why would anyone bother with hashing anyway?
Text Highlight2026-08-09 16:32:41
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"In a well-dimensioned hash table, the average time complexity for each lookup is independent of the number of elements stored"
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Average is the key word—worst case is still a nightmare though.
Text Highlight2026-08-09 16:23:41
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"In a well-dimensioned hash table, the average time complexity for each lookup is independent of the number of elements stored"
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This is why databases use them under the hood for lookups.
Text Highlight2026-08-09 16:14:41
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"In a well-dimensioned hash table, the average time complexity for each lookup is independent of the number of elements stored"
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Depends on the hash function, if it's bad you're back to O(n).
Text Highlight2026-08-08 15:09:57
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"The term machine learning was coined in 1959 by Arthur Samuel"
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Arthur Samuel coined the term way back in 1959, that's wild.
Text Highlight2026-07-28 13:24:57
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"The simplest way to perform the copying task perfectly would be to duplicate the signal."
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Duplicating the signal defeats the whole purpose, obviously.
Text Highlight2026-07-28 13:23:53
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"An energy function is a macroscopic measure of a network's activation state."
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Wait, so lower energy means better? That's like the opposite of what I'd expect from "energy".
Text Highlight2026-07-28 13:15:57
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"The simplest way to perform the copying task perfectly would be to duplicate the signal."
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If it's just copying, why not use a tape recorder?
Text Highlight2026-07-28 13:14:53
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"An energy function is a macroscopic measure of a network's activation state."
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So it's basically using physics jargon to describe how the network settles into a stable state. Cool.
Text Highlight2026-07-28 13:01:34
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"Content-based filtering methods are based on a description of the item and a profile of the user's preferences"
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But what if the user's taste changes over time? This seems too static for that.
Text Highlight2026-07-28 12:52:34
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"Content-based filtering methods are based on a description of the item and a profile of the user's preferences"
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So basically it just matches what you liked before with similar stuff, right?
Text Highlight2026-07-28 10:20:53
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"A typical generative task is as follows. At each step, a datapoint is sampled from the dataset, and part of the data is removed, and the model must infer the removed part."
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I've seen this in image inpainting too, not just text. Same trick, different domain.
Text Highlight2026-07-28 10:11:53
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"A typical generative task is as follows. At each step, a datapoint is sampled from the dataset, and part of the data is removed, and the model must infer the removed part."
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That's how they train those language models? Seems almost too simple to work that well.
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