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by NiloCK 2y ago
This reservation has taken firm hold on me and has made me a slower adopter of shiny new things. I feel alright about it from a local perspective (I'm a lot more productive now than I was before), but I do wonder what it does to the ov
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LLM Drawing with Eyes Open(paritybits.me)
2 points by NiloCK 2y ago|0 comments
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by NiloCK 2y ago
I'd be interested to see examples and hear about process here, if you're willing to share.
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by NiloCK 2y ago
Years ago in a different city I had a TekSavvy DSL connection. There was some issue, and I called tech support. The initial conversation included some hints that I, too, was ... Tek Savvy. (sorry) The agent ditched the script and we dove in
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by NiloCK 2y ago
... writing code? git commits are local things.
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by NiloCK 2y ago
For a non developer, an LLM interface is absolutely the right tool for this job. "Mr. Smith, why didn't you just sort -o students.txt students.txt. Are you stupid?" (Not to mention that real data is messy, and requires pre &a
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by NiloCK 2y ago
Your honor, this entire case is cherry picked. There are thousands of days, somehow omitted from the prosecution's dossier, where my client committed ZERO murders.
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by NiloCK 2y ago
Being in the same room that a movie is displayed movie is not attending to it. See, eg, https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/cellphones-in-theatres... In any case, if watching a movie is the counterexample it is
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by NiloCK 2y ago
Reading is categorically different than the media characterized as passive here. If you fall asleep with a book, you wake up on the same page. Advancement through the text is user-driven, not media-driven.
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by NiloCK 2y ago
Notably: there were other OpenAI models that weren't quantize, but also performed poorly.
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by NiloCK 2y ago
The experiment started from the first move of a game, and played each game fully. The position you linked was just an example of the format used to feed the game state to the model for each move. What would "winning" or "losi
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by NiloCK 2y ago
From the parent comment: yes.
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by NiloCK 2y ago
A pointed reversal of this is "We Need to Talk About Kevin", which went unsaid through the movie.
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by NiloCK 2y ago
How did alpha zero succeed?
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by NiloCK 2y ago
What does this mean? If you observe a yellow and can safely stop, then stop. If you can't safely stop, then don't stop.
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by NiloCK 2y ago
I was also pretty shocked to read this extremely specific direction, given my (many) interactions with Claude. Really drives home how fuzzily these instructions are interpreted.
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by NiloCK 2y ago
If you're at all interested in the mentioned book, and you enjoyed atomic habits, then you really ought to read Peak. improvemnt ~= time-on-task * effectiveness-of-practice Atomic habits is great on the operational side for systematica
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by NiloCK 2y ago
John Ousterhout's Philosophy of Software Design is a good source describing the tradeoff analysis that suggests this approach. https://milkov.tech/assets/psd.pdf
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by NiloCK 2y ago
I've been fascinated by this question since I learned the sieve of eratosthenes as a kid. The meta logic of it is so simple: Primes are specifically the numbers that are left over after the structured numbers (composite) ones are remov
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by NiloCK 2y ago
This reads almost verbatim as my conception of bias. "Once you've abandoned principled, wholistic reasoning for your pet heuristics, you can figure out many outcomes from the inputs to your pet heuristics". Do you mean someth
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by NiloCK 2y ago
> medals are awarded to 50% of the participants (high school students) In case this confuses anyone: the high school students in question are not a standard sample of high school students. AFAIK, they are teams of the ~6 strongest compet
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by NiloCK 2y ago
These discussions (ie, everything that follows here) would be much easier if the crowd insisting on the OSI definition of open source would capitalize Open Source. In English, proper nouns are capitalized. "Open" and "source&
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by NiloCK 2y ago
Do you think they sometimes hallucinate? Do you think a collection of them can spot one another's hallucinations? Do you think that, on occasion, some hallucinations will at least directionally be under explored good ideas?
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Searching for Dyson Spheres(academic.oup.com)
1 points by NiloCK 2y ago|0 comments
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by NiloCK 2y ago
They aren't suggesting that the war was orchestrated by the media, but that the war provided the media with an opportunity to wind down pandemic coverage.
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by NiloCK 2y ago
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/crypto-king-pleterski... It's not so much the projects themselves who are a threat, but the thousands (?) of random individuals whose value is stolen.
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by NiloCK 2y ago
There's a grain of truth to this, but it's all mired together. The medium (the phone) is the message (content). The form factor (in-pocket), connectivity (streaming content), and economic drivers (attention economy), all fundament
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by NiloCK 2y ago
Silicon Valley
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by NiloCK 2y ago
This is a reasonable angle, but recall that some sunlight, dirt, and water managed (with a lot of compute) to emit something smarter than the sum of its parst.
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by NiloCK 2y ago
The implicit connection is that some of the unprotected deposits that were gambled away belonged to rich people.

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