CamperBob2

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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
What were the chicken's thoughts on the Jacobian conjecture?
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
If you know a way to solve century-old open mathematics problems without thinking, please share with the class.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
Funny, the stuff that was stolen is still there. A strange kind of theft. Copyright maximalism is a bad look on a site called "Hacker News." Perhaps other sites beckon.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
This is literally why we need a functional copyright system To block progress. Got it.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
At this point that's a political problem, not a technical one.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
you only really get to that level of truly understanding and appreciating the stories if you've actually done the hard work yourself, which in turn will be economically infeasible due to AI The thing is, nobody has time for that. Lo
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
The "ecosystem" is dead. Tao should be thinking about what will replace it. I don't understand why he's taking this tack.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
That's not an answer.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
>I said that if OpenAI released its result in the way proposed I would go public with what happened. The reply was, “Why would you ruin your career?” I replied that I am an academic, and asked why he thought going public would ruin my ca
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
ProPublica are hackers in the best sense of the word -- inquisitive, resourceful, resilient in the face of institutional and societal restrictions. I don't always agree with their spin on things -- in fact I often actively disagree wit
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
If you're not a cop, you'd better believe there are consequences.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
You have to always remember that about half the population has an IQ under 100. And that the <100 half is much easier to herd.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
I’m not sure why you see this as evidence BillG didn’t understand that to be his job. As others have pointed out, it's all in the follow-through, and there was no follow-through.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
I love how Google looks like an MLP. I suspect their leadership would agree with that portrayal. You can imagine the activation functions: "Will this get me promoted?" "Will this get us bad press?"
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
How many times have we heard this? If it wasn't true all the other times why must I believe it now? It was true the first time somebody said, "Hey, check out this ChatGPT thing." It blew my socks off. I still haven't
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
people who aren't programmers wouldn't make that claim today How many times have you laughed at people working with HTML calling themselves "coders?" Well, now they can be. That's a GOOD thing.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
because fundamentally language models cannot do the things necessary to compete with me. One imagines Lee Sedol telling himself the same thing. True one day and false the next. It's all the other things--developing understanding, h
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
I think the outcome will be very obvious when the the time comes to settle the bet, but I agree that it's not easy to write those terms today. But speaking of Stack Overflow, that's a good point to examine more closely. Simply lo
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
"If I were wrong, one would be enough." - Einstein
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
I think we're being trolled by solenoid0937. I call Poe's Law.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
Good idea, I know they've been around for a while. I just signed up under the same username in case 27183 is interested.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
LLMs do not produce repeatable results, by their nature. Neither do humans. Two people can give the exact same prompt to the exact same LLM and get different results. No one cares. This is like telling someone else to code something fo
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
I'm game. Say $1000, donated to a charity of the winner's choice? How do you want to set the bet up, and how do you think it should be decided? To be precise: I will bet that high-level programming languages won't be any le
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
There is no subtext to bigstrat2003's argument, other than "I'm wrong, and I don't care." If you give persistent, repeatable instructions to a computer, you are programming it. If you disagree, you are gatekeeping
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
That would be bigstrat2003. He's not a big fan of updating his priors.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
Sigh. It's like watching somebody about to be hit by a bus. You yell, you wave your arms, but they either don't hear you, or they don't believe you. The last thing that goes through their head is a Greyhound's hood orn
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
The support of OSS models on HN just days after finding out about the message board incident is so bizarre to me. Other sites beckon.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
I still write code, I just write it in English now. It's still rock and roll to me.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
I'm sure that the best models can glue some basic synthesizer functions together, but I wouldn't waste a minute on anything less than Fable/Astra-class models for that kind of application, and I wouldn't expect the resul
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
OK, I see I should have used "trillions of dollars worth of hardware capable of performing not-so-precise floating point calculations at the exaflops level" as the basis for my question. The hyperscalers are making a singularity-

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