> you cannot go to a bank and ask them to help you acquire something 100x worth your cap.

you literally can, it's the entire point of eg management buyouts

It's just an acronym, "parameter-efficient fine tuning". LoRA is one method, prefix tuning is another, there are more.

> So much precision is required that session musicians are playing most of the things you hear, not the actual artists.

In pop music this has been true since the 60s. For independent music it has mostly never been true. This hasn't changed much.

Leverage. They’re essentially an 80s style junk bond LBO house.

kexp.org in Seattle and San Francisco for a start.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/machine-learning-stree... is a pretty good primer on METR, what it measures, and its limitations.

arXiV is not intended to be your blog. You should be held to a zero-mistake standard when publishing academic work.

The people I worry for are the junior researchers who are going to be splash damage for dishonest PIs. The PIs, though, deserve everything that’s coming for them.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but zero-mistake seems harsh. I would say that AI references are a sign of something that is not simply a mistake.

However, we can have zero tolerance for certain techniques for "writing" a paper. Plagiarism and inventing data are already examples of this, if there is evidence for these techniques being used there is no excuse. We could say the same for AI references - any writing process that could produce these is by definition not a technique we want.

So the mistake isn't not checking a reference the AI gave. The mistake is letting the AI make references for you.

If we agree that academic research is important then I think we can impose certain standards on how you do it. We can dissalow certain tools if that means we can't trust the output. Just like an electrician can't use certain techniques, even if they're easy, because we don't trust the final result.

You’ve got nine years of experience, so work your network and get referrals. It’s very hard to get mid-career jobs through the front door; most people want someone they trust to vouch for you.

I've tried that. They don't have anything for me.

Bunch of Balkan and Turkish music has quarter tones too. (And you’re forgetting KG and LW…)

> (And you’re forgetting KG and LW…)

Now I'm only replying because I'll take any opportunity to prop King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, which is the third item of the original three dot points.

KG = KG and LW = KGatLW = King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.

I don't like all of KGatLW's music but, as someone who is also a big fan of Frank Zappa's extensive corpus of works, I love their versatility and their willingness to be versatile.

One of my favourite performances of KG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI_XU1iKRRc (I can't believe this is from ten years ago!)

You are forgetting the albums KG and LW which are both microtonal. I knew exactly what you were saying :-)

Dang, there's a gap in my knowledge. Thank you for pointing it out, this will be filled tomorrow!

KGatLW are so prolific with their releases, I've been a long way behind for a long while.

There's a short and direct line from the opening riff of LW's Static Electricity to AdP.

Thanks again :)

When you’re staffing work to a junior, though, often it’s the opposite.

IME "don't ask questions and just do a bunch of crap based on your first guess that we then have to correct later after you wasted a week" is one of the most common junior-engineer failure modes and a great way for someone to dead-end their progression.

So you are saying they are trying for the whole Artificial Intern vibe ?