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Ukv
9mo ago
> And couldn't that taint the people against the phrase? In that, you think some people would agree with the phrase when taken with its implicature and connotations, but then object to its far milder literal meaning? Struggling to s
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9mo ago
> This has been debunked. What in particular has been debunked, and by what? > If it was co-opted, then why [...] I wouldn't say it was "co-opted" - as far as I'm aware it originated as and still mostly is an alt-r
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9mo ago
The phrase "it's ok to be white" has implicature (by maxim of relevance) and associations (by how the phrase originated and is used in practice) beyond its literal meaning. You can disagree with making that statement without
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9mo ago
The contradictory text on the prop feels like a plausible human mistake - like from taking bits from different reference images.
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9mo ago
> The issue is that the kid wants to play a game with his friends [...] This is a clear and meaningful distinction and it doesn't sound supported. Clear how it could restrict to friends-only when connecting directly to another Ninte
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10mo ago
The goals (initially "raise as much money for charity as you can", currently "Do random acts of kindness") don't seem ill-intentioned, particularly since it was somewhat successful at the first ($1481 for Helen Kell
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10mo ago
Autonomous vehicles should be on the road iff they reduce overall incidents/deaths. Failure to deal with an out-of-distribution scenario would count against this, but may be rare enough to not significantly affect the average.
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10mo ago
I don't feel NFTs ever really had much interest among the general public - average reaction just being "I don't get it, that sounds pointless". Whereas AI seemed to have a pretty good run for around a decade, with lots o
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10mo ago
> [...] Finally, most important of all, did you have fun? The answer to all of these questions is "no". Exploring the possibilities and limitations of a new technology is fun. Obviously this is just a quick experiment lacking a
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10mo ago
Given the chain was: > > Using a random UUID as primary key does not mean users have to memorize that UUID. [...] > So what is such an identifier for? [...] Why bother with UUID at all then for internal identifiers? The context, th
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10mo ago
UUIDs are good for creating entries concurrently where coordinating between distributed systems may be difficult. May also be that you don't want to leak information like how many orders are being made, as could be inferred from a `&#x
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10mo ago
> Stripping information from an identifier disconnects a piece of data from the real world which means we no longer can match them. But such connection is the sole purpose of keeping the data in the first place. The identifier is still c
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10mo ago
I feel lying implies intent, and that the "appears to be accurate or plausible" only means on a superficial level.
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10mo ago
> By design, this is all it is capable of doing. Assuming a finite, inanimate computer can produce AGI is [...] Humans are also made up of a finite number of tiny particles moving around that would, on their own, not be considered living
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10mo ago
The article doesn't say anything along those lines as far as I can tell - it focuses on scaling laws and diminishing returns ("If you want to get linear improvements, you need exponential resources"). I generally agree with t
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10mo ago
The index_tiled.html version correctly positions the original assets, and to me looks as close as you can get to the screenshot while using the original assets (except for the red text). The version with the screenshot as a background is wh
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10mo ago
> I'm really struggling to believe that anyone would consider this a "coding success". The index_tiled.html version later in the article is what justifies the success claim IMO, and is the version I think it would've
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10mo ago
From the article, Claude asked: > The screenshot shows viewport-specific positioning - should we match at a specific viewport size or make it responsive? And the author responded: > exact screenshot dimensions So it's only intend
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10mo ago
index_tiled.html is what justifies the title IMO - it's not using a screenshot as the background like index.html, and is as close as you can get using the original assets given the screenshot's scaling and compression artifacts (m
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10mo ago
Agree that's a better intuition, with pretraining pushing the model towards saying "I don't know" in the kinds of situations where people write that as opposed to by introspection of its own confidence.
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10mo ago
> can you confidently classify all mental activity that you experience as "predicting the next thing"? [...] On what do you base your confidence in their equivalence? To my understanding, bloaf's claim was only that the ab
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10mo ago
> Spoken Query Language? Just like SQL, but for unstructured blobs of text as a database and unstructured language as a query? I feel that's more a description of a search engine. Doesn't really give an intuition of why LLMs ca
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10mo ago
I'm not convinced that "It's just a bag of words" would do much to sway someone who is overestimating an LLM's abilities. Feels too abstract/disconnected from what their experience using the LLM will be that it
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10mo ago
It's not clear to me that it "changed things in important ways" in this case if a call alleging serious damage to the rail would've similarly triggered a pause for inspection.
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10mo ago
> Build failures from this change will typically look like "some `extern` functions couldn't be found; some native libraries may need to be installed or have their path specified" Given this breaking change is known and un
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10mo ago
I don't think those performance concerns are really much of an issue with any sensible implementation. You'd do line of sight checks against simplified geometry first to handle the vast majority of cases, and you'd load chara
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10mo ago
> The fact that one can ferret out what someone perhaps meant to say from what they did say doesn't change the fact that what they did say was wrong, and can be rightly criticized for being wrong. kruffalon said something ambiguous,
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11mo ago
Even further back: > Yet deep learning may well be approaching a wall, much as I anticipated earlier, at beginning of the resurgence (Marcus, 2012) (From "Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal")
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11mo ago
> But fever is not a way to let you know that foreign bodies are being killed off--that's his claim, and it's wrong. querez's point is that the sentence is meant to be parsed as: > pain and fever which are the bodies wa
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11mo ago
The paper's reasoning appears to be: 1. Creativity = Effectiveness × Novelty, all ranging from 0 to 1 2. In LLM outputs, effectiveness/novelty are negatively correlated (higher-scored continuations have higher effectiveness but lo
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