DavidSJ

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by DavidSJ 2y ago
> Every waste of money is not a Ponzi scheme. Using this as an opportunity to grind an axe (not your fault, cactusfrog!): I find it clearer when people write "not every X is a Y" than "every X is not a Y", which could
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by DavidSJ 2y ago
On a few occasions I’ve called the phone number on a professional vehicle’s “how’s my driving?” bumper sticker to report the driver for good driving. It’s always a fun experience.
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by DavidSJ 2y ago
What were the contradictions?
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by DavidSJ 2y ago
Here's a Wayback mirror since the server appears to be struggling: http://web.archive.org/web/20240402165313/https://isoe-netwo... Edit: While the above link works for me, this link might work bette
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by DavidSJ 2y ago
Nitpick: The expected value of the cosine is 0 even in low-dimensional spaces. It’s the expected square of that (i.e. the variance) which gets smaller with the dimension.
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by DavidSJ 2y ago
Would you be willing to describe in a bit more detail what your rich visual memory is like?
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by DavidSJ 2y ago
The full list from the article: 8VC Opportunities Fund II, L.P. ADREM X LLC ADREM Y LLC Afshar Partners, LP Andrea Stroppa Andreessen Horowitz LSV Fund III, L.P. Anthem Ventures, LLC ARK Venture Private Hol
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by DavidSJ 2y ago
Be that as it may, Llama 3.1 70B is not the big Llama.
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by DavidSJ 2y ago
I basically agree with you, but one answer to your challenge is Emacs. However, I’m sure it wouldn’t use anything like Elisp if written anew today.
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by DavidSJ 2y ago
Better octuple it.
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by DavidSJ 2y ago
Thank you.
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by DavidSJ 2y ago
What was the query and epiphany?
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by DavidSJ 2y ago
The magic is in the billions of learned weights (~synapses). This is just the scaffolding that runs them.
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by DavidSJ 2y ago
Something something survivorship bias plane meme. But maybe that one's in poor taste under the circumstances.
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by DavidSJ 3y ago
"Of the 137 people in the global study who achieved billionaire status in the 12-month study period, 53 of them inherited $150.8 billion collectively, more than the $140.7 billion that was earned by the 84 new self-made billionaires i
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by DavidSJ 3y ago
I think they weren't worried about those few hundred bucks so much as precedent resulting in some future liability of millions of dollars when their chatbot misinforms tens of thousands of customers about something.
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by DavidSJ 3y ago
It's one of the prerequisites in fact.
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by DavidSJ 3y ago
Tengen, like the word atari, is a term used in Go. It means “origin of heaven” or “center of the universe”.
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by DavidSJ 3y ago
A few other cases of this sort of thing: affect (n). an emotion or feeling. "She has a positive affect." effect (n). a result or change due to some event. "The effect of her affect is to make people like her." affect (v)
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by DavidSJ 3y ago
How has the Civ gameplay changed since the 1990s?
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by DavidSJ 3y ago
That’s always a tough way for a relationship to end.
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by DavidSJ 3y ago
It’s of course hard to directly compare, in large part because the AI revolution wouldn’t be possible without the agricultural revolution. But yeah, a lot of people think AI is a BIG BIG BIG BIG (note: I used one more “BIG” than you) deal f
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by DavidSJ 3y ago
A strategic shift becomes more likely when leadership is pushed out, especially when that occurrs because of a difference of opinion over strategy.
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by DavidSJ 3y ago
A few things: 1. It came completely out of left field, at a time when OpenAI has had an astonishingly successful year. 2. It was much more harshly worded than most corporate press releases letting their CEO go, basically accusing Sam Altman
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by DavidSJ 3y ago
I think few people were saying GPT-4 would do that. They're concerned about further developments of the same basic technology, on a rather uncertain timeline.
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by DavidSJ 3y ago
Maybe, but there's a difference between not being in the deliberation, and not being notified until the entire planet was.
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by DavidSJ 3y ago
This suggests that Greg Brockman wasn't in the board meeting that made the decision, and only "learned the news" that he was off the board the same way the rest of us did.
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by DavidSJ 3y ago
I’m certainly not proposing that access to your SIM card should allow authorities to sync your messages! They should be stored encrypted on-device, and only exportable if you have login access to that device. If authorities do acquire login
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by DavidSJ 3y ago
Being able to transfer to another copy of the same app, but not to a different app, and being forced to delete the original data in the process, is not ownership of your data.
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by DavidSJ 3y ago
I expect messages to disappear when I turn on disappearing messages and not when I don’t turn them on. But yes, I agree it’s not the right choice for me and many others who want to have full ownership over our data, and they should make tha

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