A list is an ordered collection of \(n\) elements.

requirements

• as list length cannot be negative
• list length cannot be \(\infty\)
• repetition matters
• order matters

additional info

• two lists are equal IFF they have
  • same \(n\)
  • same elements
  • same order
• they are different from sets because
  • order matters
  • (therefore, because in/out is no longer a binary) number of entries of the same object matters
  • length is finite

LRCultureAlign Sukiennik: An Evaluation of Cultural Value Alignment in LLM (arXiv:2504.08863v1)

Take the Values Survey Module, evaluate ground truth, prompt LMs in 1) country-native language 2) model developer language 3) across all languages with role-play based on specific human characteristics, show that GLM-4 is best aligned, and generally models are more US aligned.

LRCultureAlign Adiga: Attention Speaks Volumes: Localizing And Mitigating Bias In Language Models (arXiv:2410.22517v1)

Analyzing concentrated attention across protected class entities shows models’ preference for one entity vs. another; intervening on the attention by rescaling the attention across entities allow bias to somewhat mitigated.

The Little Endian architecture is one which the numbers are laid out such that the smallest bytes are placed earlier into memory. In a sense, all the numbers are stored in reverse if readnig from “left to “right”

Something is considered “Living” when they exhibit two main biological functions

Two Main Functions of Life

• metabolism: “do chemistry to change internal consistence”
• replication: “copying cell information”

theories of origin of life

• Manfred Eigen ("RNA-World" theory): genes form, constructing enzymes, forming cells
• Alexander Oparin: cells form, creating enzymes as needed, forming the genes to encode them
• Freeman Dyson: Dyson’s Model of Life—basically the Oparin model, but with more specifics about how genes evolve