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For the academically inclined version of this piece, here's the paper . You can also listen to this interview with the author . “Intelligent” Firewall Management: A Crisis “So, the machine has high ac
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[This is the tenth of many finalists in the book review contest. It’s not by me - it’s by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done, to prevent their identity from influencing your decisions. I’ll be posting about two of these a week for several months. When you’ve read all…
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April 21, 2021 I’m going to assume you know what GPT-3 is and why it’s a Big Deal™ . The way you interact with GPT-3, or its forthcoming competitors, is through Prompt Engineering. In this post I’ll b
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