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“My favorite book is The River of Doubt, in which Theodore Roosevelt, after losing, I believe, the 1912 campaign, goes to Southern America and traverses a never before traversed river, and along the way gets all of these horrible infections, almost dies.”
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01 / recommendation
“My favorite book is The River of Doubt, in which Theodore Roosevelt, after losing, I believe, the 1912 campaign, goes to Southern America and traverses a never before traversed river, and along the way gets all of these horrible infections, almost dies. They run out of food. They have to kill their cattle. I think half or more than half of their party died along the way. And it ended up just being this insane journey that really spoke to his mental fortitude. And one of my favorite anecdotes in that book was that he would do these point-to-point walks with people, where he'd look at a map and just kind of put two dots on the map and be like, "Okay, we're here. We're going to walk in a straight line to this other place." And straight line really meant straight line. I'm talking like climbing trees, bouldering, wading through rivers, apparently naked with foreign ambassadors. I feel like politics would be a lot better if our president would do that. It's only stories like those that are just core America to me. And I am actually entirely into bushwhacking and foraging. And if you had a plants podcast, that would be an episode. But I love that story. I love that book. It was entirely fascinating to me.”
02 / recommendation
“My favorite book is The River of Doubt, in which Theodore Roosevelt, after losing, I believe, the 1912 campaign, goes to Southern America and traverses a never before traversed river, and along the way gets all of these horrible infections, almost dies.”
03 / recommendation
“One, it can get cached. So subsequent calls to the LM with that same context at the top of the prompt are cheaper because the model provider stores that initial context for you as well as the embeddings for it.”
04 / recommendation
“It's a more research-y approach. But just take some common format out there that the LLM is comfortable with, and I say that with air quotes because it's a bit of a strange thing to say the LLM is comfortable with something, but it actually comes empirically from studies that have shown that formats of questions that show up most commonly in the training data are the best formats of questions to actually use when you're prompting it.”