There are many legitimate criticisms of LLMs. The copyright issues involved in their training, their enormous power consumption and the risks of people trusting them when they shouldn’t (considering both accuracy and bias) are three that I think about a lot. The one criticism I wont accept is that they aren’t useful.
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prosecutors have filed another 150 pages of victim impact statements in SBF's case today. seems unlikely Judge Kaplan will have the time to read them before sentencing tomorrow morning, but it's good that they're in the record
I'll be doing a livestream tonight at 6pm Eastern to go deep into the arguments that will be presented in Sam Bankman-Fried's sentencing tomorrow and answer any questions you might have
Sam Bankman-Fried has filed five more letters of support, and from reading them it seems that somehow Mukasey Young is worried they hadn't emphasized enough that Bankman-Fried is vegan
Another two are from parents of autistic children, and one of them suggests that perhaps "he did not fully understand the scope of what was going on and did not have malicious intent".
In case it might be useful to anyone else, I just wrote a quick Chrome extension to download all PDFs on CourtListener when there are multiple attachments to one docket entry.
It also renames the files all nicely so you don't end up with that whole pile of files with names like "gov.uscourts.nysd.590939.407.26.pdf"
I also just added support so it will work on PACER pages (iff you have the RECAP extension installed, and you should!)
If you use PACER and you don't use RECAP, you should rectify that immediately.
I had to say goodbye to my Max this week after an unexpected and rapid decline. I'm heartbroken, but more than anything, I'm so grateful for the 6½ years we got to spend together. He was my first pet, and he taught me so much. He never, ever stopped purring. I miss him terribly.
He had an incredibly hard first half to his life, during which he was abandoned and endured some horrific things. He was eventually rescued by a feral cat rescue organization in Boston, and then he came to me for foster. Despite all he went through, he loved everyone he met.
He was the greatest older brother to Ruthie (even though she scared him at first) and he raised her ever since she joined us at only a few weeks old. I think it's wonderful that she grew up to look like his mini-me.
He was probably about fifteen, although it's guesswork with adult strays. Give your pets a big hug today.