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abdullahkhalidstoday at 3:06 AM6 repliesview on HN

I will accept a 5% drop in benchmarks for a model that talks to me like a human.


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chvidtoday at 4:16 AM

Funny. I prefer a model that does not attempt to talk like a human.

4b11b4today at 3:14 AM

I strictly prefer when models ignore any human quirks in my responses. Claude trying to be your friend, saying LOL to your jokes is ridiculous and frankly, harmful

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roncesvallestoday at 4:06 AM

You don't even need to pay a 5% hit. Just paste Fable output into Gemini Flash and it will rewrite it in more accessible language.

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maxlohtoday at 3:38 AM

Yeah. I've found that Opus by default outputs something I call "Claude-lang." It consists of oversimplified, grammatically incomplete sentences that I find painful to read.

Maybe it is something that is easy for it to read and write, but definitely not for humans.

For example,

  Skim once now; refer back while reading Part II. \*Every bold technical term in Part II is defined here\* — treat these as a dictionary, not a reading assignment. The first table covers the vocabulary of the *deck*; the three that follow cover the *methodology* vocabulary introduced in Part II, grouped so you can find a term fast: \*(A)\* the logic of rules, \*(B)\* the neural-network & training machinery, \*(C)\* the method-design ideas.

  JMRL is the paper the thesis instantiates, so this is the one to know cold. Its pitch is \*end-to-end\*: earlier rule methods (LogicRE, MILR) bolt a rule learner *onto a frozen* extractor in a pipeline and suffer \*error propagation\*; JMRL trains the rule module *jointly* with the extractor.

  **Identity.** Conformal prediction for NER producing **finite-sample-valid prediction sets** at two granularities: **full-sequence** sets over entire label sequences (capturing contextual dependence — "if Sarah=PER then NYC likely LOC") and **subsequence-level** (per-span, **class-conditional**) sets; an **integrated** method filters full-sequence predictions with entity-level sets. Adds **covariate-stratified calibration** by **sentence length and language** for valid multilingual coverage, and studies **combined nonconformity scores** (Naive / Conditional / RAPS). **Read in this order.** Abstract → §1 contributions (full-sequence / subsequence / integrated / **covariate (length + language) calibration** / combined scores) → §2 CP recap (inductive split-CP) → §3 NER formulation (IOB2, CRF) → the subsequence / entity-level set construction + class-conditional coverage → the language-stratified calibration results. **Why it matters here.** The **span-level construction** for **Topic 11**'s per-triple score, and — crucially — its **language-stratified calibration is exactly the EN↔zh case**: it shows how to keep conformal coverage valid across languages of differing length/script. Complements PASC (pipeline-level joint coverage) with the *NER-internal* set construction. **Caveat.** A heavy statistics paper (44 pp., *Annals of Applied Statistics* submission) with CRF-based NER; the project needs only the **inductive split-CP + subsequence/entity-level sets + language-stratified calibration**, not the full-sequence machinery (likely overkill for triple-confidence). Assumes exchangeability — borderline under the EN→zh shift, which is precisely why the PASC/ConformalNER *shift* analyses matter.
(Yeah, Opus outputted it in one line)
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semilintoday at 3:09 AM

Why? LLMs are not humans.

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