AvAn12

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by AvAn12 3y ago
Learning a couple of jazz standards on guitar. Building a RAG model over bespoke documents. And streamline, react, or some other web tools so that I can make better interactive demos.
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by AvAn12 3y ago
Nobody defends crime. What people oppose is goofy and demonstrably false political narratives about how we should all be afraid of cities as bastions of crime etc etc. Nice try.
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by AvAn12 3y ago
NYC resident here. Not sure where you are spending time, but I have not seen anything like that where I live and work: Midtown, upper west, upper east, greenwich village, Chelsea, Brooklyn.
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by AvAn12 3y ago
Joel Spolesky has made this very point many times in the past: "Private offices with doors that close were absolutely required and not open to negotiation." I work on a Data Sci team that moved to an open floor plan in 2018. What
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by AvAn12 3y ago
Agreed. it's just the probabilistic language model running away with generating next (token | word | phrase | sentence | paragraph ) or however it really works under the hood. Rather different than what is going on within the noggin
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by AvAn12 3y ago
I just tried "12. Write a sentence that contains only 5-letter words." Ten times in a row and ChatGPT app on iPhone just could not do it. I even gave it a long prompt explaining what I mean by a "5-letter word" and g
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by AvAn12 3y ago
Problematic analogy. The primordial single-cell organism was alive - a living, self-sustaining, self-replicating entity - and, to your point, the first in a long evolution of life forms. The compute procedures we refer to as "AI&quot
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by AvAn12 3y ago
Yes or like asking the Hubble telescope what it thinks about the universe...
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by AvAn12 4y ago
With longer (50k+) context lengths, is this just becoming a new form of search?
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by AvAn12 4y ago
Or could this be a marketing stunt? OMG we are so popular that nobody can get to our site for the first 48 hours etc. etc.
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by AvAn12 4y ago
It's almost like the "I" should be in quotes. Because if anyone else in the world gave ChatGPT the same prompts, they would get more-or-less the same story. (visual generative AI is different). I think this makes things like
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by AvAn12 4y ago
I smell a rat. Could this guy be a stalking horse? Run as a Democrat on a crazy platform so as to discredit Democrats? And/or aim to stir up such outrage against a self-driving prohibition so that congress passes a contrary law to hav
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by AvAn12 5y ago
Sure but doesn't that essentially ask the government to back the whole thing? In which case, how is that scenario any different than life w/o cryptocurrency (i.e. physical cash + debit cards + credit cards)?
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by AvAn12 5y ago
Any opinions from the crypto crowd? Cash seems like the ultimate libertarian way to go. My cash is physically in my wallet - nobody can touch it or take it. It is indisputably mine. And I know shops, vendors, and pubs will accept it. As so
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by AvAn12 5y ago
I'm thinking more like an algorithmic bias, which we have already seen in retail and banking ML/AI systems. Virtual version of how taxis won't serve certain neighborhoods or pick up certain people based on appearances. How do
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by AvAn12 5y ago
Is anyone thinking about "road neutrality" issues, such as: - Tiered priority: can people pay up to give their autonomous ride priority over others? - Differential access: can certain neighborhoods be made inaccessible to Avs or
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by AvAn12 5y ago
Currency, as a concept, is very precisely defined and also exhaustively studied. Actual currency is also controlled by policy-makers and regulatory regimes in every country on earth. Actual currency is a complex concept but one that has be
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by AvAn12 5y ago
What you are describing is not employment. Rather, you are describing activities that produce crypto. For example, miners are getting paid in crypto. OK, but what are they using to buy the computers they use and to pay electric bills and t
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by AvAn12 5y ago
How? If I want a unit of any cryptocurrency, I have to hand over an equal value of USD to obtain it. My employer can't pay me in crypto because they only have USD flowing in to their business in exchange for their products and services
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by AvAn12 5y ago
I get it. After working in tech for 10 years, I went back to grad school for statistics recently. I came to the realization with every math class that I took - after the first couple of lectures I had to say to myself, it looks like I&#x2
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by AvAn12 5y ago
I feel this argument is a bit of a red herring. It's sort of like saying, it's ok to drive through red lights so long as I don't hit any pedestrians - - nobody gets hurt, so what's the problem? One purpose of insider tra
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by AvAn12 5y ago
"Turing's Cathedral" by George Dyson has a nice history of von Neumann, among others.
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by AvAn12 5y ago
Yes that's right. The price of a futures contract is not a prediction of the price of the underlying commodity in the future. It's simply today's clearing price between hedgers and speculators. If a hedger feels they are un