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May 2020 News

May 2020 Gwern.net newsletter: GPT-3 scaling, implications, deep theory; anime GAN updates, and 1 book review.

2019-12-262023-03-27 finished certainty: certain importance: log bibliography

May 2020’s Gwern.net newsletter is now out; previous, April 2020 (archives). This is a collation of links and summary of major changes, overlapping with my Changelog⁠; brought to you by my donors on Patreon⁠.

Writings

  • Ganbooru prototype: released:

    256px BigGAN trained on Danbooru2019 Danbooru2019 Figures dataset

  • Gwern.net:

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On GPT-3: Meta-Learning, Scaling, Implications, And Deep Theory

On “GPT-3: Language Models are Few-Shot Learners”, Brown et al 2020 (poems & my followup GPT-3 Creative Writing⁠, compare my old finetuned GPT-2 poetry⁠; random samples⁠; “OpenAI API” with real-world demos)

Moved to “The Scaling Hypothesis”.

Media

Books

Fiction:

Nonfiction:

Music

Touhou:

MLP:

Doujin:


  1. Don’t worry: we already have short-shorts & ear-TIPS to hedge against fursona inflation. That said, we advise taking a large position in equineties image macro funds to benefit from a flight to quality and herding: it’ll be a bear market for kinky bonds—and that’s no bull.↩︎

  2. Some interesting references on viral evolution:

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