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Leon Lin
Personal blog · avoidboringpeople.substack.comaiwriting
Leon Lin writes Avoid Boring People, a personal blog at avoidboringpeople.substack.com about ai and writing. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “The Shape of Stories”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
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Most-linked posts?
- The Shape of Stories4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-07-01
- I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Artificial Intelligence3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-07-26
- MTG: Magic the Gathering and Metagaming2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-15
- Authentic Contrarians vs. Consensus Contrarians2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-09
- We wanted Her, instead we got Tinder2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-30
What Hacker News says?
Continuing to work on my finance and tech newsletter to help others avoid boring people: https://avoidboringpeople.substack.com/ Trying to learn art history as well Also trying to host virtual cocktail lessons
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on “Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?”Submitted Don't bet on the most likely winner as a story · 149 points
HN discussionAlso interesting to note that the hype came a while after the release of GPT-3 (the tweet was about a month after), and that many of the examples could have possibly been generated from GPT-2 (which didn't get as much hype). Put another way, you could show ppl GPT-2 examples from a year ago and claim they were from GPT-3, and I don't think many would know the difference. I do think GPT-3 has shown improvement, and i…
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on “OpenAI is giving Microsoft exclusive access to its GPT-3 language model”Submitted Ergodicity, What's It Mean as a story · 125 points
HN discussionSubmitted You don't want quality time, you want garbage time as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Artificial Intelligence as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Shape of Stories as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Having faith in the Kelly Criterion for angel investing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted MTG: Magic the Gathering and Metagaming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The case for Cameo: One man's trashy is another man's treasure as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Overview of transformers in NLP and inferring implications of GPT-3 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We wanted Her, instead we got Tinder as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A story is a lie and a story is true as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Authentic Contrarians vs. Consensus Contrarians as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AIs already pick up other abilities that nobody expected them to learn as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Authentic Contrarians vs. Consensus Contrarians as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Would you cosign your AI chess partner? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Magic: The Gathering and MeTaGaming as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted There's more to communities than Facebook goat groups as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vonnegut story arcs in tech, investing, and life as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Doctor GPT-3 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stories about investing, tech, and you as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Video games as the next cultural phenomenon as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted US trade imbalances won't be fixed by focusing on trade as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimal seed stage investing strategy is to index into every credible deal as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designing a better marketplace feedback system as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We wanted Her, instead we got Tinder as a story · 1 points
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