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| Mar 3, 2021 | » | LLMs: Stochastic Parrots 🦜 and How (Not) to Use Them
10 min; updated Dec 14, 2023
was written in a period when NLP practitioners are producing bigger (# of parameters; size of training data) language models (LMs), and pushing the top scores on benchmarks. The paper itself was controversial because it led to Gebru being fired from Google, following disagreements with her managers on conditions (withdraw, or remove Google-affiliated authors) for publishing the paper. A lot changed since mid-2021, when I initially wrote this page.... |
| Aug 19, 2023 | » | Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
4 min; updated Aug 20, 2023
MSFT offers an ESPP, in which employees can buy MSFT stock at a 10% discount. There is a cap to the number of shares per employee per year in that one can do at most 15% of one’s paycheck. Selling the ESPP stock within the same year seems unwise because of short-term capital gains tax. That said, holding them increases exposure to MSFT (if MSFT does poorly, that affects one’s bonuses, and sometimes livelihood).... |