Majromax

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by Majromax 10mo ago
> They are the only ones mining on this particular chain, but that's not an advantage either. How mining on a hidden chain is an advantage? It's easier to see the argument if you have a head start. Imagine you've somehow
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by Majromax 10mo ago
> people trolled just as hard as anyone does now, Trolling had (has) a different character in smaller, more private forums: it tends towards more effort. A low-effort troll just gets banned and loses their platform, so the troll needs t
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by Majromax 10mo ago
> We already live in the world where hackers are pwning refrigerators, I can't wait for prompt injection attacks on animatronic cartoon characters. It's not necessarily AI controlling the communication. Disney has long had &#x
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by Majromax 10mo ago
> When it comes to AI im more of a luddite at the moment, things change like every 6 months when it comes to prompting the models. [...] So taking away the award is kind of weak given people enjoyed the game. To nitpick: the independent
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by Majromax 10mo ago
> My question is "what happens if you scale up to attain the same levels of accuracy throughout? Will it still be as efficient?" I've done some work in this area, and the answer is probably 'more efficient, but not qu
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by Majromax 10mo ago
> Which is surprising to me because I didn't think it would work for this; they're bad at estimating uncertainty for instance. FGN (the model that is 'WeatherNext 2'), FourCastNet 3 (NVIDIA's offering), and AIFS-
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by Majromax 10mo ago
> Are there any other benefits? Like is there a reason to believe it could be more accurate than a physics model with some error bars? Surprisingly, the leading AI-NWP forecasts are more accurate than their traditional counterparts, even
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by Majromax 10mo ago
Google Research and Google DeepMind also build their models for Google's own TPU hardware. It's only natural for them, but weather centres can't buy TPUs and can't / don't want to be locked to Google's cl
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by Majromax 10mo ago
> "it's more efficient if you ignore the part where it's not" Even when you include training, the payoff period is not that long. Operational NWP is enormously expensive because high-resolution models run under soft
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by Majromax 10mo ago
> In addition to Mastermind, Wordle also falls into the same category. > Optimal play to reduce the search space in both follow the same general pattern - the next check should satisfy all previous feedback, and included entries shoul
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by Majromax 10mo ago
> Modern tools have made the citation process more comfortable, That also makes some of those errors easier. A bad auto-import of paper metadata can silently screw up some of the publication details, and replacing an early preprint with
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by Majromax 10mo ago
> I do too, but this is a conference, I doubt code was provided. Machine learning conferences generally encourage (anonymized) submission of code. However, that still doesn't mean that replication is easy. Even if the data is also
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by Majromax 11mo ago
Penny-wise and pound foolish. Non-ECC RAM might save on the small amount of RAM power, but if a bit-flip causes a failed computation then an entire forwards/backwards step – possibly involving several nodes – might need to be redone.
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by Majromax 11mo ago
> Are you concerned with your product being used to improve AI to be less detectable? The big AI providers don't have any obvious incentive to do this. If it happens 'naturally' in the pursuit of quality then sure, but ex
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by Majromax 11mo ago
> 15 years later and still no word from Google if they will use the barometers in Android devices to assimilate surface pressure data. For WeatherNext, the answer is 'no'. The paper ( https://arxiv.org/abs/
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by Majromax 11mo ago
> For those of you interested in the source of "harmful" prompts that tends to produce refusals in the lame restricted models: This doesn't seem like a very good dataset. The same general topics show up repeatedly with sl
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by Majromax 11mo ago
The basic MLP block in this model uses a ReLU^2 activation function (x <- ReLU(x)^2). That seems to be copied from the nanochat project, and it's not present in nanoGPT. Is there some documentation on the choice of this activation
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by Majromax 11mo ago
> You just write down your math equations as JAX and you're done. It's natural when your basic unit is a whole vector (tensor), manipulated by some linear algebra expression. It's less natural if your basic unit is an el
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by Majromax 11mo ago
> If OpenAI or Anthropic could squeeze the same output out of smaller GPUs and servers they'd be doing it for themselves. First, they do this; that's why they release models at different price points. It's also why GPT-5
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by Majromax 1y ago
> Could this really invalidate research? Managing to produce a model that works (assuming you check all of the myriad modeling correctness checkboxes) is sufficient on its own. In the academic sense, a model that happens to work isn&#x27
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by Majromax 1y ago
> When I(short proof)=I(long proof), per-token average surprisal must be lower for the long proof than for the short proof. But since surprisal for a single token is simply -log P, that would mean that, on average, the shorter proof is m
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by Majromax 1y ago
Not just the scientific replication crisis, but also the scientific media replication crisis. For all of the p-hacking and file drawer effects that modern research (noting this is an older piece) tries to avoid, the incentives for popular
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by Majromax 1y ago
> And also, dont count on the government, like FEMA, to help. Now with phrases like "climate change", and "green" now banned from federal discourse, we're not permitted to say the obvious. It's a cold calcul
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by Majromax 1y ago
Not in the United States, but it is illegal in some jurisdictions. Additionally, the entire "payment processors leaning on Steam" thing shows that it might be very difficult to monetize a model that's known for generating ext
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by Majromax 1y ago
In all of these questions, you're making an assumption about the data-generating process. In Q1 and Q2, you're assuming that you had a 0% chance (a priori) of hearing that 'neither is a (girl/boy)', and in Q3 you&#
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by Majromax 1y ago
It's civil cases that have the lower standard of proof. Civil cases arise when one party sues another, typically seeking money, and they are claims in equity, where the defendant is alleged to have harmed the plaintiff in some way. Cr
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by Majromax 1y ago
> I dont think it’s the tariffs. I really think the entire category of merchants looked at each other and figured it was fine to raise prices. Those statements aren't contradictory. Pricing in non-commodity goods is always a human
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by Majromax 1y ago
> Yet women have a longer lifespan despite shorter reproductive years. After industrialized nations have reduced both maternal mortality and violent death (warfare) to small fractions of their pre-modern levels. The life tables of 150
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by Majromax 1y ago
Was it really interesting? To me, it has certain hallmarks of an AI-generated article. In particular, it introduces the same concept several times, in different sections. For example, fare classes, nested booking, and the SABRE system ea
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by Majromax 1y ago
> The solution shouldn't be then to fill them with LLMs but strip them entirely away. You don't need language models to identify useless processes. The problem, however, is that people tend to be more comfortable with a proce

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