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Re:Show HN: AskHN by soheil on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @06:38PM (#34904710)

> As Sarah Constantin observed about GPT2

So how is the fact that this person made the observation relevant here? Are you name dropping for a particular reason?

I feel like this has been a trend lately on HN. People start mentioning others to give them more clout for some mysterious reason.

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Re:Show HN: AskHN by wisemang on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @08:39PM (#34905664)

Or, maybe they want to give credit where it’s due and not plagiarize?

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Re:Show HN: AskHN by setgree on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @08:51PM (#34905746)

Her essay is from 2019, and I quoted it mainly to say that I am not making an original point, this has been a known problem with LLMs for a while (and I presume it will continue to be).

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Re:Show HN: AskHN by gnulinux on Thursday February 23, 2023 @12:18AM (#34907053)

A simple Google search yields that she's likely an expert and her opinion can be used as a "citation" in one's comment:

> Brief bio: I started out studying math (Princeton AB ‘10, Yale PhD ‘15, focusing on applied harmonic analysis) and then spent some time in the world of data science and machine learning (Palantir, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Starsky Robotics.)

from: https://srconstantin.github.io/about/

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Re:Show HN: AskHN by seanhunter on Thursday February 23, 2023 @01:28AM (#34907465)

Giving credit to someone for the quotation is called a citation, and it's encouraged.

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