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Thursday, August 6, 202640 min read
Daily Reading · Paper of the Day

Labelers preferred a 1.3B InstructGPT to 175B GPT-3

Ouyang and colleagues fit a reward model to human comparisons and optimized GPT-3 against it under a KL penalty, an objective whose closed form later made both the reward model and its reinforcement-learning loop optional.

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Investing · Company Analysis

Lilly's guidance keeps rising as its prices keep falling

Lilly sells one molecule as both Mounjaro and Zepbound, and it is buying volume in newly reimbursed markets like China by accepting far less for every dose.

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Parenting · Parenting Research

The dangerous part of teething is the medicine cabinet

FDA case files link infant benzocaine gels to 119 methemoglobinemia cases and four deaths, and drove belladonna teething tablets off the market as a serious health hazard.

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Daily Reading · Current Events

August 6, 2026

A judge ends the last January 6 prosecution under protest, calling the dismissal an epilogue that excuses what that day did to the peaceful transfer of power.

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Daily Reading · Tech News

A long-COVID study links anellovirus reactivation to who stays physically disabled

In 1,154 patients hospitalized with COVID and tracked for a year, the IMPACC study saw Epstein-Barr, cytomegalovirus, and anelloviruses reawaken during acute illness, a correlation its authors say does not yet prove cause.

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Daily Reading · Word of the Day

The Luddites broke machines they knew how to run

England answered the Luddites with a capital statute and the gallows at York, then made their name a word for anyone who distrusts new technology.

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