tl;dr: I made it so you can buy print versions of The Library of Scott Alexandria, Scott’s collected fiction, and Slate Star Codex Abridged. You can get the pdfs and ebooks from the resources folder of my repo here. You can see the three books together here (I have no...
I was rereading the fantastic encyclopedia Mathematics 1001: Absolutely Everything that Matters in Mathematics in 1001 Bite-Sized Explanations over Christmas break. It really lives up to its title!, and is much more accessible than reading random Wikipedia articles. There’s an interesting puzzle, The Unexpected Hanging, posed in the final section...
They cover a lot of different territory. Maybe 20% of the essays between the two giant books are same. The Goddess book is all fiction, so it's pretty distinct from the other two. I'd recommend the goddess book if you're getting someone a gift.
Between the two 800-pagers, the Library of Scott Alexandria was written in 2014, so it's more classic Scott, and more focused on rationality specifically. I would personally prefer the newer SSC Abridged.
I used Lulu. Printing your book would be $40-50. Also though 900 pages is just a wee too big!, the page limit is 800 pages.
Oh awkward, yeah I'm missing the link for SSC Abridged. Here's The Library of Scott Alexandria too in case you're having trouble finding it.
tl;dr: I made it so you can buy print versions of The Library of Scott Alexandria, Scott’s collected fiction, and Slate Star Codex Abridged. You can get the pdfs and ebooks from the resources folder of my repo here.
You can see the three books together here (I have no idea how to embed an image on LessWrong, and not for lack of trying, sorry.)
I’ve wanted a classy, print copy of SSC ever since I saw u/ekygip make such a book for his sister in law. It looks really lovely! He used the printing service Lulu, which DrunkFishBreatheAir also used to print Scott’s novel Unsong.
I wanted something similar, but more ambitious than u/ekygip’s... (read 762 more words →)
I was rereading the fantastic encyclopedia Mathematics 1001: Absolutely Everything that Matters in Mathematics in 1001 Bite-Sized Explanations over Christmas break. It really lives up to its title!, and is much more accessible than reading random Wikipedia articles.
There’s an interesting puzzle, The Unexpected Hanging, posed in the final section Games and Recreation. And, uh, more specifically in the chapter on Puzzles and Perplexities. The problem is as follows:
... (read 1060 more words →)A logician was condemned to be hanged. The judge informed him that the sentence was to be carried out at noon, one day next week between Monday and Friday. But it would be unexpected: he would not know which day it would be, before it
I thought about this a bit and have a few suggestions.
1. You could try using a ctrl or start-of-sentence token to distinguish text generated by the model from the prompt (see https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.05858 for the terminology “ctrl”). If you decorated every prompt to look like [prompt_token1, prompt_token2,…prompt_tokenn, HARMLESS_MODEL_START], then the model would better be able to compartmentalize between prompts it’s being fed and and what it’s asked to generate. This would also let you train on the prompt tokens, so you’d pay less of a safety penalty. Another important advantage is that this would enable you do use the model interactively, rather than as something that gives one-off completions. Relatedly you could then... (read more)
Thank you for your kind words :)