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On Agency
essays ·Tl;dr: lots of people benefit from pursuing “agency”. But there are nearby concepts that are bad for you. Agents don’t have to become impressive rule-breaking boss types if that doesn’t actually achieve their goals. Individual agency can undermine groups. Agency can backfire if you lack knowledge and incorrectly reject commonsense. Learning your goals will take a lifetime and you can...
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How to Write ML Papers
on-research ·This doc is aimed at students learning to write ML papers as well as more experienced writers. It isn’t about how to do the research itself, but about how to present it in a way that makes it impactful to an ML research audience.
There are many perfectly good ways to write papers. The most important trick is to make...