Dr_Birdbrain

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by Dr_Birdbrain 3y ago
Are they all Latin-derived languages? Because that’s the Latin root :)
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by Dr_Birdbrain 3y ago
Watches can be used to find fresh water sources. (Joking, of course you are completely correct)
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by Dr_Birdbrain 3y ago
My father has a mechanical watch that he bought in the 70s and he has never serviced it. A Jaeger LeCoultre Memovox, a thing of beauty.
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by Dr_Birdbrain 3y ago
An SVM is a quadratic program, which is convex. This means that they should always converge and they should always converge to the same global optimum, regardless of initialization, as long as they are feasible, I.e. as long as the two clas
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by Dr_Birdbrain 3y ago
https://archive.md/scsr3
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by Dr_Birdbrain 3y ago
Just want to be pedantic and point out there is no such thing as a Canadian that is a dual citizen with China. China does not allow dual citizenship.
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by Dr_Birdbrain 3y ago
Source: I lived in Mexico for a few years. I don’t think it’s accurate to say Mexican governments are underfunded—they have oil money, from the nationalized oil industry, to the extent that they are extremely chilled out about tax collectio
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by Dr_Birdbrain 3y ago
The thing is, I see a huge difference between high-end health plans (for example, at places like Meta, which include IVF coverage) and middle-of-the-road plans (like my employer provides) and bare-minimum plans (like MediCal). Which plan wo
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by Dr_Birdbrain 3y ago
I think this is more targeted at new graduate students. I remember when I first started my PhD, literally all of the talks were completely over my head, and I did not understand enough to engage as you describe here :) Gathering three key t
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by Dr_Birdbrain 3y ago
I think in this context, grammatical correctness is irrelevant, and what you actually want is just raw text as written by real humans from all walks of life.
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by Dr_Birdbrain 3y ago
Ah yes, we’re about to get photographic and evidence of aliens right when widespread generative AI explodes, cannot possibly be a coincidence
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by Dr_Birdbrain 3y ago
Came here to say this. The code it generates for me is usually not perfect, but for me it provides conceptual insights that have gotten me unstuck from gnarly situations. The conventional narrative is that chatGPT can code as well as a juni
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by Dr_Birdbrain 3y ago
I think parent comment was talking about Lemoine, who never claimed the AI was dangerous, but rather that it was sentient and not being given the rights it deserved.
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by Dr_Birdbrain 3y ago
I started my ML journey in TensorFlow, and now I am a happy PyTorch user, for many years. TensorFlow, yuck
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by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
I liked the way Matt Levine put it: if you’re the sort of company that sometimes randomly finds large amounts of assets you had lost track of, you should be worried you might later find large amounts of liabilities you had lost track of.
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by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
One of the people interviewed made a flippant comment that the focus on STEM may have had a negative impact on abstract reasoning. Haha what? Sounds like that person is one of the people impacted by the reverse Flynn effect.
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by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
I have been a regular Anki user for many years. My approach to making cards is actually to take long-form notes on the topic at hand, then apply close deletions to key parts, like equations, key ideas, and definitions. This makes it so that
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by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
Interesting idea. If so, it was a risky gambit, and also they only get to do it once, because the next bank is bigger than SVB. Do they really care enough about lowering interest rates to play such a risky gambit, which can only be played o
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by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
That’s funny, because I wouldn’t buy a Quest, but I was just thinking I would LOVE FaceTime in AR, so I could take calls and meetings while walking in the park. I already do that but I have to use a hand to hold my phone.
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by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
Great perspective. In many ways the current tech scene has become entrenched around a handful of big players. I am looking forward to hopefully a fresh batch of startups creating new dynamism.
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by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
Yes, but I think the folks who work on technical alignment would like to have stronger guarantees—I think they would like to end up with formal guarantees that the AI will only be helpful, and not harmful.
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by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
I spent a few years of my career in formal verification. As a result of that, I suspect that the desiderata of “technical alignment” research is most likely undecidable, and the existing RLHF and prompt engineering approaches are probably t
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by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
Well a lot of the compensation is not cash, but bonuses and stock grants. I know, stock isn’t cash and is subject to risk, but it’s a lot more than 190k even after you factor in the risk.
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by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
I am both an index investor and an AI enthusiast, and I think it’s an excellent analogy. If you are an investor who does not have interest in maximizing your returns and you just want a place to park your savings, an index fund is great, an
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by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
Was it confidential info? The public earnings call was three days ago, investors didn’t like what they saw and the stock went into free fall, then the run started yesterday. I think insiders might not even have realized how bad their balanc
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by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
Matt Levine reports that the reason they had to buy those low-yield investments that plummeted is because it’s tech-sector customers had too much money in the boom times. Too much deposits means they need to buy a lot of something , and i
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by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
If you play moves that are common across low-rating games, the average completions will be low-level moves. If you play moves that are common in high-rated moves, it should play high rated moves. In practice, it mostly plays gibberish that
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by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
You might be interested to know that the status of the sovereignty of Ukraine was not in question at any point right up until the very second that Putin said the Kyiv government was a Nazi government, and invaded. Russia itself was a signat
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by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
I think this functionality is not available on the app, only on the browser version. The browser version runs great on mobile, though.
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by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
I used to believe this, but then I saw the demo of ChatGPT attempting to play chess. The rules of chess are much simpler than any structure of the real world we might hope for it to understand—and yet it failed to learn the rules of chess.

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