PeterisP

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by PeterisP 3y ago
Why wouldn't it know the direction of motion for the swipes and the orientation of the finger? Any mobile app has access to the touchscreen input which provides exactly that information.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
I don't think that real-world conditions would be giving them 12 hours of recording throughout the day - a malicious app that explicitly asks people to swipe left/right on pictures of kittens is a very realistic attack scenario an
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Why do you assume that Gemini doesn't have these knowledge cut-offs? If I ask Gemini, for example "Give me three important events that happened during May 13, year 2023.", then it says that this is "in the future" a
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by PeterisP 3y ago
In general, the core language model is simply trained on a very large amount of unannotated text (which is the most time-consuming and expensive part), but a language model is not directly very useful in the role of e.g. a chat agent, it qu
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by PeterisP 3y ago
"passing it on not knowing what happens later" often is fundamentally not acceptable - you may need proper transactions spanning multiple things, so that you can't finalize your action until/unless you're sure that
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Running a business, even a "lifestyle business" is so substantially different from a job - requiring all kinds of very different tasks, and risk-taking profile - that it doesn't seem reasonable to assume that someone who&#x27
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by PeterisP 3y ago
I don't know much about photolithography, but doesn't it rely on relatively expensive fixed masks prepared for each layer? Assuming that doing the process you describe is sufficient, what's the ballpark of what "for chea
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Yes, like other similar tamperproofing options (glitter, vacuum-sealed colored beads, etc) it's trivial, cheap and fast to get a random pattern, but absolutely impractical to control the pieces to get any specific pattern - perhaps som
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by PeterisP 3y ago
The existing criminal process can prosecute fraud after the fact; but there are potential FTC regulations which could make it either harder to commit it or easier to detect it, acting as a deterrent before fraud is done.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
IIRC it's still being slowly implemented, as slowly as things are made mandatory - because any telecoms that can make money by forwarding fraudster calls to other telecoms don't want to support it.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
> I meant some watermarking that can’t be redone even if the weights are shared I've been working a bunch on neural networks, and I'm quite convinced that this isn't possible (as in, not that we haven't built a tool f
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Can't archeologists determine sex from the skull, which also would probably show up in brain scans?
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Why would the scammers apply watermarking to their fraudulent data? Or do you expect that FTC somehow will make the open source generative models disappear worldwide?
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Probably not right now, the standard process would involve re-running a 'finetuning' part after any update to the underlying model, and while that's far less expensive than the main training, it's probably not something
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Ah ok, I was assuming that having this be a fully transparent & reversible issue of representation isn't really possible - but if it is, then sure, then I'd agree, then it can be treated just like indentation or syntax highlig
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by PeterisP 3y ago
IMHO at the ticket-to-ticket level you're not really making these tradeoffs but rather experiencing the consequences of them - it doesn't matter if for minute-to-minute execution right now lots of small functions would be better
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by PeterisP 3y ago
> You get tired mentally (what you are specifically referring to) I'd like to note that I intentionally did not use the word tiredness (as I specifically intended to not refer to tiredness) but instead explicitly referred to bored
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by PeterisP 3y ago
In this context when people say "global variable" it is effectively shorthand for "arbitrary accessible shared mutable state" and the associated risks of mutating something which other code expects to stay the same, and
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Your arguments still seem to lead me to the entirely opposite conclusion - that different choices would be better for different organizations and different projects, and it would make sense to have things like "lots of small functions
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by PeterisP 3y ago
This is from the perspective of designing a custom system for doing a particular business function, and its software and hardware are interlinked parts of the whole design (as would be e.g. a cloud platform if that was used for it), and it
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by PeterisP 3y ago
IMHO the exact proposal is a bit different - we don't know if you're conscious, but since you might be conscious and suffering, we'll take steps to ensure that you can't ever be conscious by continuously force-wiping you
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by PeterisP 3y ago
One thing the article seems to take for granted is assuming a link between tedious tasks and the conscious experience being highly unpleasant. For various evolutionary reasons primate brains do have an in-built mechanism of boredom i.e. ted
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by PeterisP 3y ago
What do you do with them? I'd guess the total lifetime consumption of any medicine for me and my family is less than 500 pills, a pack of 20 can last more than a year because it's not that often that any of it is needed, and whe
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by PeterisP 3y ago
It's amazing what performance you can get by simply putting in as much RAM as your data needs - if plugging in a terabyte or two of RAM ensures that all your data is "in cache" on a single system (+ e.g. a mirror for redund
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by PeterisP 3y ago
> For example, in parts of Iliad bronze is given as a valuable gift. In other parts, it’s thrown away on the heads of spears and arrows. So was it composed before or after the fall of the Bronze Age? I'm confused by what paradox do
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Interestingly, China's CO2 emissions seem to have stopped skyrocketing - they are set to stabilize this year, and they are currently undergoing a massive growth in manufacturing solar capacity, and as all PV that's currently bei
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by PeterisP 3y ago
I strongly disagree, and you can look at Twitter for an example, with bots now often using 'verified' accounts. For someone running a bot business, paying $1000/year for some bots doesn't change anything for their busine
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by PeterisP 3y ago
There's nothing obviously wrong with assuming that "biology can do it with organic materials, so we should be able to do it with electronics" - while it's theoretically possible that we'll eventually identify some f
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I believe that synthetic biology had succeeded already a few years ago in making artificial cells with a fully synthetic genome designed by us with what is sufficient for the cell to eat, grow and replicate, se we already can design and mak
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I'd argue is that the key aspect of housing is how much living space do people actually get to use, as that is the thing which impacts their quality of life and lifestyle; the second slightly less important aspect is how much people

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