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Listen to the interview here: Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.“What is the fucking point of a helicopter if it can’t land in mud?” asks Carli of the air around her. I certainly didn’t have an answer. I doubt the blond woman who is somehow playing volleyball with herself in the distant background of the Zoom window did, either. “Like, you’re in tech–invent something, come up with a solution to this problem.

I ate a lot of fish tacos this past month. After spending two weeks in Todos Santos, Mexico, eating like it was my job… because, well, it kinda is, I have many thoughts about the cuisine of Baja. Here are some tips for the next time you are there. First and foremost, fish and seafood are kin… ncG1vNJzZmisn6m1pq7Op5xnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wvsSfo56bpJ68r7%2BMqKVmmV2btrS0jK2YnKc%3D

For the past fifty years, I have been avoiding The Byrds. The reasons are unclear to me; maybe it's because they came from Los Angeles as a band, and as a teen, I was devoted to those who drank tea and ate bangers. Also, David Crosby was an annoying figure through the decades. It wasn’t his politics, but his mixture of ego and arrogance, plus his tendency to lecture down to you.

The obituaries have now been published in their thousands, many doubtless requiring a quick update decades after they were first drafted. For it was for his longevity that Henry Kissinger was most notable: as a recent centenarian who was fortunate enough to stay lucid, active and highly quote-worthy until just weeks before his death; as a still sought-after foreign-policy guru and highly paid consultant nearly half a century after he left public office in early 1977; as an object of enduring fascination as well as of deep dislike for war crimes or acts of deadly unscrupulousness that he committed so long ago that it took a read of the obituaries to remind oneself of what they all were.

In a new paper, researchers at Stanford University introduce Representation Fine-Tuning (ReFT), a technique that can customize large language models (LLM) for downstream tasks while making very small modifications. ReFT rivals parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods, which are based on modifying a fraction of the weights. However, instead of modifying weights across all layers, ReFT seeks out representations of concepts that are relevant to the target task and can perform the fine-tuning much more efficiently.

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As predicted in Monday’s weekend wrap, Reggie Crawford was added to the Richmond roster yesterday — and the Giants wasted no time getting him into his first action of the year. The big left-hander earned his way to the Eastern League by reportedly throwing some extreme lights out ball in extended camp — I heard the fastball had been sitting in the 96-100 range in short outings, and the slider was busy buckling knees.

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Happy New Year! I spent the first two weeks of the year battling COVID and it was much more intense than I anticipated after multiple vaccines. I’m finally feeling better now, and I hope you are all healthy or on the road to recovery. One of the things I’m most excited about this year is the release of the paperback of The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution.