Epicycles All The Way Down

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“All models are wrong, but some are useful.” — George E. P. Box“All LLM successes are as human successes, each LLM failure is alien in its own way.”I. Two ways to “know”I was convinced I had a terrible memory throughout my schooling. As a consequence pretty much for every exam in math or science I would re-derive any formula that was needed. Kind of a waste, but what could I do. Easier than trying to remember them, I thought. It worked until I think second year of college, when it didn’t. But be...

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