Isamu

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by Isamu 10mo ago
My local museum had a room of poorly labeled and unlabeled objects that I loved and so I went down the rabbit hole of identifying and investigating most of them. Then I wrote the missing Wikipedia page for my favorite. If they had provided
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>Numbers are just a shortcut for dealing with repetitions An interesting explanation, I think I agree
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Someone commented here that hallucination is what LLMs do, it’s the designed mode of selecting statistically relevant model data that was built on the training set and then mashing it up for an output. The outcome is something that statisti
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I believe this one is a deliberate construction, they knew the evolution of the pieces and gradually put it together. There’s search programs too, for smaller patterns. This construction is just too big and with such a long period. The sear
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Yeah me too I was stoked for a moment. But I guess I’m in maker mode right now.
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Another way: morality is always in the context of your wants versus society. Society is an objective fact here, as is yourself. That you want to live your life is a given. In order to avoid bad backlash from society you might objectively ch
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by Isamu 10mo ago
Objection: first observe that much of morality is about “doing the right thing”, where the right thing is hard because it is opposed to selfishness. Selfishness is the default and the natural impulse. You rarely have to convince people to t
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by Isamu 10mo ago
>it looks like we've been lied to. I don’t get this conclusion at all, please explain. The article makes estimates without showing their work, then arrives at some probability of a coverup. A coverup where the government releases fo
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by Isamu 10mo ago
The AI push is not just hype, it’s a scramble for cash. For now the only game plan is to scale up massively with a giant investment gamble, to try to get beyond the obvious limitations that threaten to burst the bubble. Plus the general eco
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by Isamu 10mo ago
It can be a matter of values from your upbringing or immediate environment. There are plenty of places where they value the results, not the journey, and they think that people who avoid cheating are chumps. Think about that: you are in a s
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by Isamu 10mo ago
>anyone with an elementary school level knowledge of science knows is bullshit I’m not familiar with the facts of your anecdote, but clearly the CDC is a government agency and banning protests would be an unconstitutional prior restraint
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by Isamu 10mo ago
>this coastal elite attitude that the masses should do what we say because we are the experts I think this attitude, that the work the CDC and other boring agencies do is elitist, or that those who defend it are elitist, is the root of d
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This can be interpreted as: cash is a bit tight right now in Russia, so equity is more available to keep the supply chain going.
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Hang on, from a quick scan I see Koch is German in origin, Lauder is Hungarian Jewish, Pritzker is Ukranian. [edit] and DuPont is French … etc. I think you meant white, not WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant).
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by Isamu 10mo ago
>The LLM is not doing semantics; the humans who generated the corpus are doing the thinking. Agreed, this bears repeating. This point is not obvious to someone interacting with the LLM. Because it is able to mash up custom responses does
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by Isamu 10mo ago
>what thinking can an agent do without symbolic representation? The language model is exclusively built upon the symbols present in the training set, but various layers can capture higher level patterns of symbols and patterns of pattern
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by Isamu 11mo ago
I think “coffin liquor” would be a great name for an absinthe.
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(Clairvoyant) Ah yes I am seeing your past life, you were an utterly unremarkable person, doing the same things people around you did, saying the same things people around you said, neither especially kind or cruel, but making sure that you
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by Isamu 11mo ago
It’s popular to believe that there is some semi-idealistic past, or at least some better past, that contradicts any notion of progress. This is supported by lack of evidence once you go far enough back, you can kind of make your own narrati
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by Isamu 11mo ago
Actually this should be a call-for-proposal for Y Combinator, demonstrating carbon fiber knitting. Carbon fiber is typically woven in a simple fashion, to keep the strands straight because high tensile strength is the key. But if it can be
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by Isamu 11mo ago
Someone needs to knit a Menger Sponge or Sierpinski Pyramid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menger_sponge That is one of the challenges that must be accepted by the solid knitting community… and maybe find a way that it
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by Isamu 11mo ago
All sensible points: >Deployment Lacks Coordination >AI May Fail to Deliver Technological Progress >AI Threatens the Workforce >Economic Growth May Not Materialize >AI Brings Social Risks >Party elites have increasingly co
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by Isamu 11mo ago
Yeah the accidental discovery of the background radiation that they eventually traced to big bang predictions. It’s a good story about following through with your experimental results.
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by Isamu 11mo ago
It’s selling out the Ukranians, they didn’t get a say in the deal and Putin gets to keep his gains and at home the threat of him being overthrown is lessened. In return Ukraine gets to give up territory and reduce their readiness for the ne
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by Isamu 11mo ago
Right, you can generate long sentences from a first-order markov model, and all of the transitions from one word to the next be in the training set but the full generated sentence may not.
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Discussion about this tends to get hung up on the relative harm of a particular food, let’s say a donut. But the article is really about a diet that is dominated by food like donuts. >Evidence reviewed by 43 of the world’s leading expert
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by Isamu 11mo ago
If you raise crops or farm animals, you are a farmer. The USDA is not trying to pull a fast one with the definition of a farmer. We could have a discussion about farmers that have other jobs and so are part time farming and part time someth
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>It bothers me that farmers rarely own the land too You will be glad to learn that most farmland is farmer owned: https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/land-use-land-v...
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by Isamu 11mo ago
I bought these for the kids, back in the iPod days. Fun and helpful to keep the things from getting too banged up. But actually the iPod era went by quickly. The iPod was a stepping stone to the iPhone but even Steve didn’t know that at the
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Issey Miyake was the most interesting high end clothing designer, many of his high fashion designs didn’t sync with any trends from other fashion designers, they were instead highly sculptural and informed by art rather than design. He was

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