Scandal in BohemiaStewart Ross, * Sherlock Holmes
Scandal in Bohemia
by Stewart Ross, * Sherlock Holmes · first published 2019
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…reminded of this because of a recent thread where some HN commenter expected him to make predictions about the future (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44356367). Also reminded of Sherlock Holmes (from A Scandal in Bohemia): > “This is indeed a mystery,” I remarked. “What do you imagine that it means?” > “I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts…
on “A human metaphor for evaluating AI capability” ↗…drivers? File systems? Python itself? DB queries? Memory architecture? Inference algos? ) I recall “I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data” by Sherlock Holmes in "A Scandal in Bohemia". All the best with your work at OpenAPI. We will all hopefully learn about writing more energy efficient code and about more efficient LLMs and more thanks to your work!
on “Why I Joined OpenAI” ↗