Cybiote

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by Cybiote 6y ago
Though humans do often confabulate, they can also say, "I don't know", "what is that", "wait a minute", "there's something fishy about this", "huh?". Sometimes they can invent a ne
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by Cybiote 6y ago
It seems you've written c² in units of Wh/kg? But the fact that per arbitrary mass, you can theoretically get more energetic reactions than by fission or even fusion doesn't mean comparing the productivity of fission to oil i
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by Cybiote 6y ago
> But you have to try and explain the magic. You don't always have to. Vernor Vinge explains it as, you are allowed one central conceit which frees you to deeply explore some core theme. That single wild assumption has the interesti
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by Cybiote 6y ago
This is one of the themes brilliantly explored (in my opinion), in the (largely hard) scifi book "Lady of Mazes" by Karl Schroeder.
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by Cybiote 6y ago
Oh okay, then in that case we don't disagree and are talking about different things. My issue is the few shot learning done by a model which is performing gradient updates should be distinguished from whatever GPT-3 is doing when it&#x
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by Cybiote 6y ago
Let me preface this by saying I generally agree with what you're saying. My focus below is on the delta. > It is true that this model requires a large amount of unlabeled data, in addition to a small amount of labeled data, but gath
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by Cybiote 6y ago
> What is this sentence supposed to convey? There are examples where it is able to recognize and continue patterns in strings which if manually generated, would have required a FSM. In fact, some of the more impressive examples would req
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by Cybiote 6y ago
Unfortunately, your correction is still misleading because it fails to capture what really sets GPT-3 apart. Ironically, GPT-3's limitation also highlights its strength. As it is not capable of learning (few shot or otherwise) in the s
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by Cybiote 6y ago
You raise good points and I suppose valid differences in focus will alter one's notion of nearness. Here's why I made the claim I did: > Rust that came from ML and that aren’t features of Haskell > As I understand the histor
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by Cybiote 6y ago
I enjoyed reading the perspective given in this essay and agree Haskell's been (and continues to be) an influential language. So take this criticism as maybe my being overly particular about the meaning of descendant. Idris as a descen
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by Cybiote 6y ago
You're completely correct but unfortunately, this doesn't matter in practice. It's true that thanks to formats like PDF/UA, PDFs can have decent support for accessibility features. Problem is, no one uses them. Even the
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by Cybiote 6y ago
A monoid is a mathematical structure which captures associativity (a+(b+c) = (a+b)+c) and has an identity notion (a + 0 = 0 + a = a). They're useful because knowing them allows for identifying and mechanically applying transformations
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by Cybiote 6y ago
There is the Curry Howard Lambek Correspondence (or should I say: the Types, Logic, Cartesian Closed Category Correspondence). Curry Howard in particular, says the act of providing a term for a type is the same as providing the proof to a t
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by Cybiote 6y ago
My experience is that, compared to most functional languages, F# has a great IDE experience in Rider, Visual Studio and VS Code. But when compared to big industry focused languages, like C# and Java, tooling is middling at best. Ironically,
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by Cybiote 6y ago
> Cutting out DeepSpeech seems sensible to me, it’s out of place in the general portfolio of products. I disagree precisely because of the point you make later: "I’m somewhat concerned that Firefox will be irrelevant in fives years
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by Cybiote 6y ago
It still remains a risk well worth taking. With Mozilla, it is merely uncertain but for just about every other company, it is all but guaranteed. You can plainly see this philosophy in the industry's naming sense, where super-computers
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by Cybiote 7y ago
That's a great point. I also observed that and the fact ratings seem fairly volatile outside the top 10. I was only noting positional changes of the languages mentioned in the article over time. Its main point of other reasons to to ch
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by Cybiote 7y ago
It was interesting to observe that since this was written, both F# (from 67 to 32) and Lisp (63 to 29) have risen dramatically on the TIOBE index. Haskell has also risen from 42 to 39, though not as big a gain as the other two. Haskell now
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by Cybiote 7y ago
The case fatality rate is estimated at 2% - 3% but that is with medical care. Without ventilators and ICU care, CFR might rise to as high as 10%-15%. With its exponential growth rate, it'd be highly surprising for the virus to go unnot
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by Cybiote 7y ago
The article addresses that issue, its core thesis is that AI supports declarative programming. One of the author's main points is that a sufficiently intelligent compiler would rewrite code to be better optimized and have better comput
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by Cybiote 7y ago
Yeah, the subtle difference is that discovering a geometric concept and being able to express it in a compact and flexible notation are not quite the same. It's very easy to take for granted the sheer amount of innovation and ideas tha
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by Cybiote 7y ago
These are known as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_coordinates and are a pretty old technique. Although the wiki lists process control as one of the major users, their history has them as dormant until revived i
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by Cybiote 7y ago
It's worth reading Vannevar Bush on the value of associative trails: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_We_May_Think#Concept_realiz...
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by Cybiote 7y ago
Hi, can you point to the source for this? I failed to find any mention of it in the article. Or did you mean the two games annotated by Kramnik? Thanks.
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by Cybiote 7y ago
Your arithmetic is not relevant to my point because as I said, when normalized to the same domain, it is valid. > Which, once again, must imply that you have confidence in that evidence. Nope, think of it as a bayesian update which induc
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by Cybiote 7y ago
I do not believe this generalization is accurate. It wasn't me who said that but the person I quoted. F# is plenty functional but what it does lack are organizational constructs which reduce code duplication. In practice, these are not
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by Cybiote 7y ago
It does not. Because, since both systems in comparison are in violation, when normalized to just this setting, the comparisons are meaningful. That is, while microbenchmarks are not something that should replace task relevant testing, they
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by Cybiote 7y ago
Certainly, not every language will fit everyone's preferred style of thinking and approach to breaking down problems. This is why I think a diversity in available options is so useful.
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by Cybiote 7y ago
> stop the world GC (my car ran you over because of a random unpredictable pause!) Given a certain baseline of available resources and for the places where GC issues can be problematic (regimes I do not believe common) unpredictability o
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by Cybiote 7y ago
By bundling. I believe there are couple a options to reduce the resulting package size some. As with all things, it's a matter of priorities when weighing language and deployment options.

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