In my made-up example, the probability that the model will produce the four tokens “peanut butter and jelly” is just 10 percent. If we added more tokens, the probability would get even lower.

Statistics are suffering a crisis of confidence. The UK has had a run of flawed economic data; earlier this month chief statistician Ian Diamond stepped down, citing health issues. Statistical ...

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For example, the probability of drawing a red card from a deck of cards is 1/2 = 0.5. This means there is an equal chance of drawing a red and black card since there are 26 of each in a deck.

The book industry still welcomes the hype and sales that a star can bring, but more and more, publishers also rely on what they already have: generations’ worth of older titles—what they call ...

Fewer new books to read. Conventional wisdom in the publishing industry has long held that it’s best to avoid releasing new books during the fall of a presidential election.

Because I’m starting off with a strong stance: BookTok is indeed bad. However. The problem with BookTok is not—as you might think—one of crappy books or bogus influencers.

3 Body Problem creators David Beinoff, D.B. Weiss and Alexander Woo talk book changes and adaptation challenges for the Netflix series.

As I wrote a while ago, hallucinations may be an unsolvable problem with today’s transformer-based model architectures. But a number of generative AI vendors suggest that they can be done away ...

The e-book and e-audiobook are about $17 for a consumer, but the library paid more than three times that price: $64.99 for an e-book and $59.99 for a digital audiobook.

Her second book, Friday’s Tribe: Eighteenth-Century English Missionary Fantasies, has been accepted for publication by the University of Pennsylvania Press.