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You are not bad at reading research papers.
They are written to survive peer review, not to be read by you. So pick a paper, tell it who you are, and read it at your level. Every paper gets an honest does it hold up?
The shelf
Attention Is All You Need
Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, et al. · 2017
Drop the step-by-step reading of older models and let every word attend to every other word at once. That one change, the Transformer, became the foundation of modern language models.
Read it your way →TechConstitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback
Yuntao Bai, Saurav Kadavath, Sandipan Kundu, et al. · 2022
Teach an AI to be harmless by giving it a short written set of principles (a constitution) and having it critique and revise its own answers, instead of relying on humans to label every harmful response.
Read it your way →PsychologyEstimating the Reproducibility of Psychological Science
Open Science Collaboration (Brian Nosek et al.) · 2015
A huge team re-ran 100 published psychology studies. Fewer than half reproduced, and the effects that did were about half the original size. This is the paper that made the replication crisis impossible to ignore.
Read it your way →TechLanguage Models are Few-Shot Learners (GPT-3)
Tom B. Brown, Benjamin Mann, Nick Ryder, et al. · 2020
Make a language model enormous (175 billion parameters) and it starts doing new tasks from just a few examples in the prompt, no retraining. This paper is why prompting became the way we use AI.
Read it your way →PsychologyPower Posing: Brief Nonverbal Displays Affect Neuroendocrine Levels and Risk Tolerance
Dana R. Carney, Amy J.C. Cuddy, Andy J. Yap · 2010
The famous claim that standing in a powerful pose for two minutes changes your hormones and makes you bolder. It became a sensation, then largely failed to replicate. A useful case study in reading a paper critically.
Read it your way →PsychologyRevisiting the Marshmallow Test: A Conceptual Replication
Tyler W. Watts, Greg J. Duncan, Haonan Quan · 2018
The famous finding that a child's ability to delay eating a marshmallow predicts lifelong success mostly melts away once you account for the child's background. Willpower mattered far less than circumstances.
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