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John Faben
Personal blog · johnfaben.com/blogaiprogramming
John Faben's personal blog at johnfaben.com covers ai and programming. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “GPT-3 Arithmetic (2020)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link John Faben's posts testing GPT-3 on arithmetic and translation, cited as evidence that GPT-3 does more than memorise its training examples.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
John Faben's homepage — links to things I've made.
Most-linked posts?
- GPT-3 Arithmetic (2020)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-25
What Hacker News says?
I think it's pretty clear that there is something more than memorising examples from the training set going on. Look at this: https://www.johnfaben.com/blog/gpt-3-arithmetic In which GPT-3 answers the question "what is one hundred and five divided by three?" with "35.7". It also gave several other close-but-not-correct answers. It seems pretty unlikely these are all present in the training set, and surely can't all…
Comment linking /blog/gpt-3-arithmetic
on “Why GPT-3 Matters”Submitted GPT-3 Arithmetic (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://www.johnfaben.com/blog/gpt-3-translations Or check section 3.3 in the paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14165.pdf
Comment linking /blog/gpt-3-translations
on “Banned math book”