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B. F. Skinner Is Back
In the summer of 1942, Arthur D. Hyde, vice president in charge of research at General Mills, held what must have been the strangest meeting in his long career...
Large Language Poetry
In my ideal undergraduate course in literary criticism, the first semester would include a brisk introduction to large language models. This is less absurd than it sounds. Recall that...