RockyMcNuts

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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
If moderators are feudal 'landed gentry' then what does that make 'spez'? What does it make owners of platforms who decide with more or less absolute authority what is acceptable on their platforms? As software platforms
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
people hate the word 'privilege' but privilege is literally what social status buys and what people spend their life chasing
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
Sandstorm
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not strictly true I think - you could add new units throughout and train those while freezing existing units (adapter-based fine-tuning) - you could train all units and use e.g. low-rank adaptation to limit how much they can change - you co
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
LLMs might offer some creative ways around the trilemma of navigating threads chronologically, by topic/contextually, and by score.
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
I think there are a few derivative-free global optimizers, curious what sets this one apart? see e.g. https://www.microprediction.com/blog/optimize . If the current scipy-native one is unmaintained and this one is supe
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
hmmh, if we have the reinforcement learning part of reinforcement learning with human feedback, isn't that a model that takes a question/answer pair and rates the quality of the answer? it's sort of grading itself, it's
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
ChatGPT lets normies use natural language to do complicated stuff that used to be only accessible to engineers ... so, no. The winner might not be something called ChatGPT though. The AutoGPT stuff is pretty ridiculous... - ask GPT for th
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
not sure if the current airline industry is a great model for all other industries. at some point unbundling becomes extreme lack of transparency and customer-hostility if not a downright scam. there are such things as externalities and tra
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
The real-time voice cloning seems ready for prime time, the video is getting there. https://www.wsj.com/articles/i-cloned-myself-with-ai-she-foo... (very not impressed by certain financial institutions who seem to be r
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
The real problem is the bad actors - trolls, mental and financial strip miners, and geopolitical adversaries. We are just not psychologically adapted or intellectually prepared or availing of a legal framework for the deluge of human-like m
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
I made a python script / notebook to scrape a reddit thread on music, send all the comments to ChatGPT with a prompt like 'extract all the songs to CSV' and then upload to a Spotify playlist. probably high school level these
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
Which OpenAI fine-tuning API? I don't think fine-tuning is currently available for GPT-4 https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7127982-can-i-fine-tune-...
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
If Pascal's wager teaches us anything, it's that we want to start from a maximum-entropy prior and model the process generating the two hypotheses. If a guy ends up living in a gold palace with Michelangelos on the ceiling if thos
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Cash App founder Bob Lee stabbed to death after argument about suspect's sister(nbcnews.com)
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
where's the paper on Titan LOL ... can't be good if no paper or metrics saying it's better then GPT-4 or even GPT-3. but it's amazing that Google has all the papers and models and the TPU and BERT is pervasive in their p
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
not sure what 'mixing LLM models' entails but these are maybe some good starting points - karpathy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY - https://towardsdatascience.com/beautifully-illustr
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
in other words less competition, more market power tax
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
can someone ELI5 what it does and why it's magical?
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
point taken, there's definitely racism, anti-Asian violence, militias and Proud Boys and idiots in the North. The totality of circumstances and history and socioeconomics and state-sponsored nonsense and fundamentalist nonsense and gun
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
Never stop until you know what you are going to pick up with next. https://www.fastcompany.com/3021905/hemingways-secret-to-mai...
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
I hear you, I don't live in South but I know people who do, and I see a lot of the mentality of, shoot first, ask questions later, and it goes exponential where someone who looks different is involved https://www.mysanantoni
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
fair enough ... or Miami ... you're still talking about states where there's lively debate about banning books, banning abortion, putting the 10 commandments and creationism in every classroom (and guns), making it effectively leg
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
every socioeconomic map of the US looks like this tho https://twitter.com/amazingmap/status/1642644670160175105
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
coming full circle, Peter Brown and Robert Mercer of Renaissance started off doing statistical language modeling at IBM and their 1992 paper in Computational Linguistics is cited in the BloombergGPT paper.
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
https://twitter.com/abacaj/status/1635837820270002178 the bloomberg paper does talk about how they sized the model based on their compute budget and research on time to train ... megatron has 1t parameters i'
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
a fun fact is Bing AI already gives pretty good answers on the tasks Bloomberg cites as motivation, like who is the CEO of various companies, "write a bloomberg excel blp formula to return industry subgroup of ibm apple microsoft googl
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
TFA: Pandas 2.0 is also backed by Arrow as an option, yielding a large speed improvement, although not all the way to Polars
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like an army of MIT PhDs didn't model obvious 1st-order effects literally everyone who knew anything expected it, it's built into every model what is supposed to happen if the Fed reports book losses or negative equity. hard to go
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
following this statement to its logical implications, if they lower interest rates even further below a Taylor Rule, then that would be deflationary since less money would find its way back into the economy and fuel inflation? by not printi

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