AlexanderTheGr8

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by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago
Can you elaborate on the hell you get put through when SWATting happens? My understanding was that SWATting means someone calls the police and says that you have a bomb in your house or something to that effect. I imagine that the SWAT team
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by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago
how would LLMs help with uncovering "bad studies"? I don't think LLMs are yet sophisticated enough to figure out potential plagiarism or Adobe Photoshop copy-and-paste (as mentioned in the article above).
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by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago
Why was a politician (Al Gore was former vice president) on the board of a tech company? I have seen this before with Kissinger at Elizabeth Holmes's failed company. I think OpenAI was also looking at a famous politician joining their
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by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago
Sorry for the silly question but how did you reply so fast. HackerNews doesn't tell an account when someone replied to them. So how did you know I asked? Do you monitor all your comments or use some service which does that?
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by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago
The linked article[1] says that Punjab police (state police in India) shot down the drones. I am curious how the police even detected these drones. State police / local police in India is unlikely to have resources for electronic warfa
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by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago
Curious how this strategy updates now that drones make war even more asymmetric. A drone worth $100 can destroy a tank worth $1 million or a helicopter worth $10 millions. It's theorized that a drone swarm can sink an aircraft carrier
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by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago
interesting that this was written in summer-2001, a bit before 9/11, which inspired one of the biggest asymmetric conflicts by the US. the power ratio was extremely skewed in US's favor, and yet resulted in a "forever war&quo
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by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago
is there any way for you to confirm if their estimated revenue is accurate?
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by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago
is there any way to see the avg time users watch the videos? Long videos get fewer views naturally but the views can be longer. So the total user time can be the same (more views * less time spent per view = less views * more time spent per
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by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago
I have a related question : if we set up sensors a few light years away capturing every signal it is possible to capture by our tech (the full electromagnetic spectrum). And then if we put all this data into an anomaly detection algorithm,
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by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago
Hi Peter, the new AI executive order mentioned easier immigration for ML/AI professionals. Does this or will it actually make immigration easier for ML/AI professionals?
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by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago
what would be the statistically optimal model for this problem? the author is using a simply 5-gram prediction model. makes me wonder if some kind of hidden markov model would be optimal for this problem but not sure how exactly. thoughts f
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by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago
As far as I can tell, the only concerning thing in this is "Require that developers of the most powerful AI systems share their safety test results and other critical information with the U.S. government." They are being intention
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by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago
From the article: "Mr. Obama’s A.I. voice was created using tools from ElevenLabs, a company that burst onto the international stage late last year with its free-to-use A.I. text-to-speech tool capable of producing lifelike audio in se
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by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago
If we are to speculate, what happens to Thiel's social reputation now (regardless of whether the allegation is true or not)? Do people stop talking to him in fear of saying something bad? Do his old friends stop contact because of what
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by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago
There must be some rationale while setting penalties. As for reasoning, what other reasoning is there except arbitrarily deciding penalties? That's just guessing the punishment for various crimes. There must be some math behind the dec
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by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago
?? The basis of my argument was that the govt can save 1 person with a million dollars (by helping drug addicts, people with mental health issues, suicidal people, etc). People aren't money but money can be converted to saved lives.
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by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago
I find such white-collar crimes very interesting because of the math between crime and punishment. For the crime that SBF is alleged to have committed, we can reasonably expect 20 yrs (he will be out in 10-12). But if he had committed a mur
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by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago
Google search heavily focuses on the last page that users visit for a query. And python documentation is hard for most novice programmers to understand. My guess would be that engineers first go to documentation, don't understand it, g
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by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago
Does anyone know why Meta is open srcing Llama? The 2 explanations I have heard are "commoditize the complement" and "take advantage of public improvements of Llama". I have always found concepts such as "commoditiz
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by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago
I have always found concepts such as "commoditize the complement" very interesting. For some reason, they seem like pseudo explanations of behaviours we see from companies. I am not entirely convinced that this was Meta's rea
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by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago
Yeah I completely agree. My question was more about practice than in theory. The requirements seem very subjective (define extraordinary). And so I wanted to know what are some real requirements/conditions the committee uses in real li
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by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago
Hi I am a ML researcher (with a couple papers) in Canada (intl student from India), in senior year of undergrad. What are my chances of O-1? It's supposed to be for extraordinary people which, by definition, can be a very high bar to c
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Ask HN: Any live updates on superconductor replication?
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by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago
Sorry for hijacking this thread for a question about personal curiosity but does anyone know of an affordable way of measuring pupil distance? I want to measure my pupil distance while browsing social media. The reasoning is my reading in &
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by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago
Sorry for hijacking this thread for a question about personal curiosity but does anyone know of an affordable way of measuring pupil distance? I want to measure my pupil distance while browsing social media. The reasoning is my reading in &
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by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago
what do people use other than pirate_bay or rarbg? Private torrents are too hard to get into.
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by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago
Thank you for your detailed response. It's illuminating. That being said, isn't this mostly speculative? Time after time, we have seen majority of people choose ads over subscription. The only successful digital subscription model
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by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago
How do they regulate websites? Afaik tiktok can be used with full functionality through their website, although most people ofc prefer app. And even if they try to block the domain, folks can still VPN into it. Much easier to regulate apps
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by AlexanderTheGr8 4y ago
Legal question : while openai gpt outputs cannot be used for training a commercial model, if someone reworded / rephrased them using another open src model, would it then be okay to use it to train a commercial model?

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