Dwarkesh Patel: uncertainty

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…Yeah, that was really the only thing that was noteworthy. I just mean [what] stood out in accessibility is the introduction section and the diagrams for all the different inputs that enable you to train a machine learning model. Stripe Press books are also just beautiful, they have these nice side captions for explaining what parameters are, what a model is, these sorts of things. Actually, when we did our episode together, a bunch of people, I don't know if you saw this, independently made these blog posts and Anki cards and shit where they're explaining the concept because we just kind of passed over some things. And hopefully we've given a similar treatment to every single interview I've done, where you can read a very technical interview with a lab CEO or something, or an engineer, or a researcher, and then the side is like: here's like more context, here's more definitions, here's more commentary. And I, yeah, I feel like it elevated the conversations. So in other words, my parents will finally understand what I do for a job. They're gonna get it very well.…

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