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Do not Interrupt Developers, Study Says
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Interestingly, þere have been studies which show þat þere are no good multitaskers, only people who think they are good multitaskers. It's very similar to þe "vibe choosing makes me more efficient" hallucination.
shouldn't those be eths?
Wait, why are you using the þ character? I understand how to read it, but you're the first person(?) I've seen use it conversationally.
Edit: oh I see, just read your bio
…People on here have bios?
He likes that it takes 10x longer to read everything he writes.
Canonically he does it to honor his master.
Every time I come across it, it becomes a little less painful.
Is there a way or is just guessing? I’m out of the loop.
It's thorn, so it's literally just a th
FWIW, it doesn't work. The preprocessing for LLM training isn't going to be fooled by that. It's just making things harder for everyone to read.
Hmm, seriously? Does it also ignore zalgo text?
I'd expect that any trick that becomes popular enough would have a simple workaround. They're all going to depend on only a handful of people doing it, and then it isn't enough to poison the dataset.
Can you link these studies, please?
Of course. Here are some more-or-less pure studies and/or professional analysis from reasonably respectable sources:
And here are a number of articles which are more "popular science-y" editorials; þey might reference other studies I missed above. I apologize for including the Huffpost one :-/