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by TeaBrain 2y ago
It seems that your insistence upon using incoherence is based upon a misunderstanding of the word. Coherence does not mean to be factual, but to be logically ordered. Also, the word "fabricated" is generally used colloquially to
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I don't necessarily share this impression, but the teams that simply close items after being unable to sufficiently develop a solution, leading to the original issue raiser giving up after realizing that those who are supporting the is
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The problem with "incoherent output" is that it isn't describing the phenomenon at all. There have been cases where LLM output has been incoherent, but modern LLM hallucinations are usually coherent and well-contructed, just
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There is no dream-reality separation in an LLM, or really any conception of dreams or reality, so I don't think the term makes sense. Hallucination works fine to describe the phenomenon. LLMs work by coalescing textual information. LL
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
The Nature article this is based upon was posted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40987224
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It is confusing because the author was really messy with her use of the figures to where that sentence reads nonsensically. The actual Gallup news article that is cited by the article posted is much clearer. The posted article reads as
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
This backs up what I mentioned in my other comment. My dad, an attorney, purchased both gpt-4o and Gemini Advanced to help write legal documents, which involves citing other legal cases. He says that he's found the legal cases that b
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
My dad, a lawyer, has been trying to use gpt-4o to assist in writing legal documents. He has said that the documents are well written and convincing, but the cases that are cited by 4o to support the document are more often than not complet
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To standardize to the beginning of the year. Returns do increase a little if the dates are changed to those of June 1974 to June 2024 at 7.48%.
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The figure till 2013 was just food for thought. Inflation adjusted returns for the S&P 500 for the last 50 years are around 7-8%. I'm certainly not suggesting anyone stay out of a S&P 500 index fund, as I wouldn't take tha
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Ford was never hit so the perception was different. There is no perceived valor or semi-martyrdom without injury. Wallace completely withdrew from the election after the attempt. He wasn't even a candidate in the general election.
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The citation of 7% as the true return isn't a "shortcut", though a nominal return of 10% could be argued to be, but an acknowledgement that total returns are not real without accounting for inflation. If an hypothetical index
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Those returns depend on when you invest. The inflation adjusted annualized return of the S&P 500 was negative from January 2000 to January 2013 at -0.25%. The inflation adjusted total annual return from January 2000 to January 2024 wa
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
Interesting that he does say that in that somewhat recent interview. I forget where exactly I heard that he said that Rentech didn't use machine learning, but it may have been from an older interview.
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The existence of sophisticated algorithms does not necessarily imply the existence of machine learning/"AI". Despite Rentech executing all their trades via algorithmic models, Jim Simons once said that they didn't use an
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One of the cited links references such a study. They found no reduction in risk for those who ceased drinking who were previously only drinking one drink per day, while there was a reduction in risk for those who ceased drinking who had bee
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
Starbucks reacted to the covid-19 lockdowns by closing many of their non-drive through locations, regardless of their potential profitability when no longer in a lockdown.
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I think many companies think they can solve this issue by throwing money at their cyber security teams. It just happens that cyber security teams are often ineffective.
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They do have Paul Nakasone on the board now. He was a four star general.
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The regional BBQ culture of different sauces and meats in the US has nothing to do with what the word was used to describe in the Caribbean. What was described as BBQ hundreds of years ago in the Caribbean, as a way of cooking fish, wouldn&
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Most of the latter ones did receive media time. None of those in the article were arrested for simply holding up political symbols like a swastika or Z symbol. In the entire article, there were only a few controversial ones, from the WW1,
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Back when Jobs thought all iphone apps were going to be web apps.
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In what way? IBM wasn't prominent in as many areas 20 years ago as Microsoft is today. Today Microsoft has the leading business social media platform with linkedin, owns a leading consumer git platform with github, has a growing share
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I don't think that is as true now. Microsoft has made in-roads in a number of markets, which has to concern some competitors. Within the last few years they left slack in the dust by bundling teams. They also bought github just a f
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He got a detail wrong, but I think this takes little away from his point. Orwell considered the possibility of joining several of the factions and his choice to join POUM was ultimately arbitrary. His choice to join was not due to a perfect
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These people's "world" would have been a relatively small area.
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It's not bold at all. The last century of the Roman Republic is famous for how unstable it was, which is why it is known as the crisis of the roman republic. In the empire that followed, around 40 emperors were either murdered or exec
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There have been impeachment proceedings started against four presidents, all of which would qualify as it being used, even if the presidents weren't successfully impeached. Impeachment proceedings have been completed against 3 presiden
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I agree with your line on personal conclusions. I think it is fair to come to a personal conclusion on acceptable risk, given the balance between risk and personal enjoyment, but I do not necessarily think that it is equally fair to come t
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I'm not trying to convince you or anyone else to never smoke cigars. I just think that it is fair to make the point that cigars are not necessarily entirely safe, even if the relative risk for lung cancer is less than for cigarettes.

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