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by CrazyStat 4mo ago
A highly publicized recent example: the author (of a book about genAI!) who doesn’t understand why he should be held responsible for the fake quotes he copy and pasted into his book from ChatGPT [1]. > I do not understand why it's m
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by CrazyStat 4mo ago
Fair. The concept predates Marx, but in contemporary thought is most closely associated with Marxism. The quote about silver from Peru is particularly striking to my ears. That’s a long and dangerous journey, and obviously (to my modern sen
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by CrazyStat 4mo ago
Labor theory of value is a Marxist idea, not an Adam Smith idea. Internet Marxists sometimes point to a passage in The Wealth of Nations to suggest that Smith also supported a labor theory of value, but this is—in the most generous interpre
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by CrazyStat 4mo ago
Doesn’t it? It seems in line with the matplotlib drama where the llm agent wrote a blog post attacking the maintainer for rejecting its pull request [1]. It’s not something that stock claude code would say, but certainly seems within the re
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by CrazyStat 4mo ago
Giraffes neurons can be up to 15 feet long. Blue whales are speculated to have neurons up to 100 feet long, though they've never been directly observed (dissected).
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by CrazyStat 5mo ago
> For an example, look at some of Julia Mossbridge's work. Never heard of her but I just spent about 5 minutes looking. Her PhD is in communication sciences and disorders [1], but apparently she’s a quantum physicist now: > AMELI
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by CrazyStat 5mo ago
> We expect our machines to behave in predictable ways. I expect LLMs to produce randomly varying output. Maybe it's the thousands of hours I spent doing monte carlo simulations for my PhD. > This is one of the best arguments aga
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by CrazyStat 5mo ago
LLMs have a temperature parameter. At zero temperature they are deterministic: they always choose the most likely next token at each step based on what came before and the model weights, and they will always generate the same output given t
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by CrazyStat 5mo ago
Please point to where in my initial comment I indicated that LLMs are human or reason. If you are unable to do so please withdraw your accusation of gaslighting, a serious form of psychological abuse, and apologize.
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by CrazyStat 5mo ago
I didn’t claim that LLMs are people or that they reason. If the behavior of the llm is the same as the behavior of reasonable people then the behavior of the llm is reasonable, regardless of how black of a box they generate tokens out of. R
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by CrazyStat 5mo ago
If you ask 10 different humans to produce the spec with the same information (prompt and context) they will also produce 10 unique answers that will contradict each other and (depending on who you asked) may be just as confident. There are
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by CrazyStat 5mo ago
In STEM fields, yes. In humanities it’s not uncommon.
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by CrazyStat 5mo ago
The goal of a PhD is to become a world expert in a specific topic, whether or not you’re planning on staying in academia. This may or may not be in alignment with the student’s goals, and many students don’t really understand it going in.
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by CrazyStat 5mo ago
> Does an approximation to pi therefore slowly creep in as you increase the sides on the polygon? Yes, under some assumptions. As the sibling comment points out, if there’s a single allowed angle theta then the expected number of interse
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by CrazyStat 5mo ago
> If I were hosting illegal malicious actors doing this stuff on my home servers and refused to even say who was doing it I would 100% get my door kicked down by the FBI. But some persons, corporate persons, are more equal than others. I
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by CrazyStat 5mo ago
I'm a statistician. My wife does basic (biological) science. Almost every time she asks my advice on an experiment I want to tell her to 10x the sample size. But the academic community has certain ideas about how big sample sizes shoul
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by CrazyStat 5mo ago
Also, careful breeding to retain as much genetic diversity as possible is important to avoid collapse in small populations. Even if small local pockets survive, if each pocket is only able to inbreed with itself that will cause problems. Ou
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by CrazyStat 6mo ago
> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by CrazyStat 6mo ago
We can take the AI out of the question entirely and ask how many other humans you personally as a driver would be willing to mow down to avoid your own death—driving off a bridge, say. I would suggest that all but the most narcissistic woul
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by CrazyStat 6mo ago
I'm surprised this targets TeX rather than lilypond, which AFAIK is the gold standard for free (as in beer and speech) music engraving. I checked, and lilypond also offers features for Gregorian chant notation [1]. Has anyone used both
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by CrazyStat 6mo ago
It's not necessarily the number of lines that motivates these tools. Say you're running an NLP pipeline where you want to do sentiment analysis on a large text corpus (tweets, for example) and then relate sentiment over time to so
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by CrazyStat 6mo ago
I've done a variety of things with it: - sysadmin tasks for my home server which runs home assistant, plex, and minecraft servers. Being able to tell it "Set up a minecraft fabric server with this list of mods" is pretty nice
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by CrazyStat 6mo ago
Since we’re sharing anecdata: I also have the $20 month plan for codex, and I hit the five hour limit after about an hour of work every single time I open it. I use it for personal side projects primarily in the evening after kids are in be
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by CrazyStat 6mo ago
Polymarket charges “taker” fees (people removing liquidity by matching listed orders) on most markets. Geopolitics markets are exempt. A portion of the collected fees then get redistributed to “makers” (people who provide liquidity by listi
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by CrazyStat 6mo ago
> 1. Why should harming a million people identically reduce their right to a fair legal evaluation and possibly compensation for damages? It doesn’t. You can almost[1] always opt out of class action lawsuits to pursue your own suit. This
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by CrazyStat 6mo ago
HN guidelines say > Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.
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by CrazyStat 6mo ago
Apple TV came after the switch to Intel processors, so you would have to have some kind of reverse-Rosetta layer to run it on a PowerPC Wii.
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by CrazyStat 6mo ago
Given the model is several years old, I assume this write up with its focus on incorporating domestic materials is so Mark Zuckerberg has something “America First” to point to next time he meets with Trump. This is not to denigrate the work
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by CrazyStat 6mo ago
> Like famously a $0.25 acetaminophen pill that somehow magically costs $10 in the hospital. I guess there's some nice individual packaging. When my first child was born the nurses had a terrible time drawing blood, so they gave him
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by CrazyStat 6mo ago
Wow, a sudden change in writing style that’s not at all intended to disguise the fact that you’re an llm!

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