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NeurIPS 2020 “English to Bash” Competition Goes Live

87 points by ArtWomb 6y ago

kuroguro 6y ago
"Try it out" live demo loads forever for me. Possibly overwhelmed by requests? _edit_ I wonder how they handle different distros having different versions of tools (say netcat has at least 3 popular versions with different flags).
- dwiel 6y ago
  The competition is specifically constrained to a specific version of ubuntu and provides the following reference: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/en/man1/ http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/en/man1/
- timeattack 6y ago
  > "Try it out" live demo loads forever for me. Possibly overwhelmed by requests? If you're using Firefox, try to disable Enhanced Tracking Protection. It did the trick for me.
  - kuroguro 6y ago
    Ohh, thank you! Didn't realize that was the case.
ape4 6y ago
Of course everyone will try "recursively remove root"
- thaumasiotes 6y ago
  No no no no. You don't remove root. You remove ../../../../../../../.. . Or "remove eight directories up from the current directory", I guess.
- droopyEyelids 6y ago
  It'd be impressive enough to recursively traverse a tree using memoization in bash.
tmabraham 6y ago
Just try GPT-3...
- speedgoose 6y ago
  So dubious bash completion requiring a cluster of GPUs in a a closed cloud and the energy of a hydroelectric dam to run?
  - melling 6y ago
    Does it really matter how it’s solved the first time? The second version can require three orders of magnitude less hardware. Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
    - speedgoose 6y ago
      Isn't the whole point of GPT-3 to have tons of data and hope for the best by training it with a huge amount of time and energy ?
      - setr 6y ago
        For training -- using the trained algorithm is cheap. It's a one-time cost (well, one-time in the final version)
    - DSingularity 6y ago
      You do realize that reducing costs means dropping parameters. So what you are suggestion is reversing the very technique that enables this result. Color me doubtful.
      - jnwatson 6y ago
        It doesn't. There exist far more sophisticated techniques to reduce the size of a neural network while minimizing loss of accuracy.
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mertd 6y ago
It doesn't let you select the result to ctrl+c.
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87 points by ArtWomb 6y ago

"Try it out" live demo loads forever for me. Possibly overwhelmed by requests? _edit_ I wonder how they handle different distros having different versions of tools (say netcat has at least 3 popular versions with different flags).

dwiel 6y ago
The competition is specifically constrained to a specific version of ubuntu and provides the following reference: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/en/man1/ http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/en/man1/
timeattack 6y ago
> "Try it out" live demo loads forever for me. Possibly overwhelmed by requests? If you're using Firefox, try to disable Enhanced Tracking Protection. It did the trick for me.
- kuroguro 6y ago
  Ohh, thank you! Didn't realize that was the case.

ape4 6y ago

Of course everyone will try "recursively remove root"

thaumasiotes 6y ago
No no no no. You don't remove root. You remove ../../../../../../../.. . Or "remove eight directories up from the current directory", I guess.
droopyEyelids 6y ago
It'd be impressive enough to recursively traverse a tree using memoization in bash.

tmabraham 6y ago

Just try GPT-3...

speedgoose 6y ago
So dubious bash completion requiring a cluster of GPUs in a a closed cloud and the energy of a hydroelectric dam to run?
- melling 6y ago
  Does it really matter how it’s solved the first time? The second version can require three orders of magnitude less hardware. Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
  - speedgoose 6y ago
    Isn't the whole point of GPT-3 to have tons of data and hope for the best by training it with a huge amount of time and energy ?
    - setr 6y ago
      For training -- using the trained algorithm is cheap. It's a one-time cost (well, one-time in the final version)
  - DSingularity 6y ago
    You do realize that reducing costs means dropping parameters. So what you are suggestion is reversing the very technique that enables this result. Color me doubtful.
    - jnwatson 6y ago
      It doesn't. There exist far more sophisticated techniques to reduce the size of a neural network while minimizing loss of accuracy.
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mertd 6y ago

It doesn't let you select the result to ctrl+c.

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