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by Vetch 5y ago
With bayesian probability a single observation can be informative (in the sense that a single observation leads to a change in distribution over hypotheses or parameters). It's a matter of narrowing down beliefs on weighted possibiliti
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> Could dinosaurs have evolved to discover computation? At least judged by brain-case, (predatory) theropods would have been on the upper-end of dinosaur intelligence. Therefore we have that birds/avian dinosaurs are descendants of
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The laws aren't enforced by machines, merely augmented or providing more options for the global disenfranchised (such as access to scientific material or easier access to global markets).
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by Vetch 5y ago
Is it worth the current violations? My personal opinion is no, but the price movements also don't make any sense to me. But I also feel I might value it more than you? As it depends on where you're coming from. There are parts of
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by Vetch 5y ago
There are several aspects to this. For basically provable immutability + decentralized you could build something on top of ipfs. For provenance (time-stamps and proof of transaction) but also practically tamper proof+decentralized+permissio
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by Vetch 5y ago
Unless you're substituting GPT3 for AGI, GPT3 is not a super-intelligence. It's a set number of matrix multiplications that completes in polynomial time. Because Transformer context is fixed, and given the limitations of training,
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by Vetch 5y ago
This can be explained as associative learning, without needing to reach for ToM, which is still no mean feat.
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I believe it's been shown as a general capability in [corvids]( https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Ravens-attribute-visua... ), great apes and maybe possibly in pigs (and goats). It's sort of game theoretic,
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by Vetch 5y ago
Sometimes laws are not just and governments are not aligned with their people. Some examples: sci-hub is not legal in most jurisdictions despite its immense positive benefits. Since being deplatformed, their primary means of receiving donat
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by Vetch 5y ago
> Overall, there's no open-source high accuracy NER model that you can use out-of-a-box" Part of it is most underestimate the complexity of NER and the rest of it, in my opinion, is that NER is not well-defined as a classificat
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by Vetch 5y ago
Ah, although, TF-IDF is still good to know. Semantic search hasn't eliminated the need for classical retrieval techniques. It can also be used to select a subset of words to use to create an average of word vectors for a document signa
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by Vetch 5y ago
While you make sensible points, in the case of GPT-3, not everyone will be willing to route their data through OpenAI's servers. > Just use DistilBERT uncased/cased (which is fast enough to run on consumer CPUs) This can still
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by Vetch 5y ago
Yeah, there is necessarily more specialization because there is vastly more knowledge than ever before. As a fraction of expertise, low level knowledge might be less but low level experts are more numerous than ever before. Rather than forg
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by Vetch 5y ago
Yep, the [paper's conclusion]( https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20200000027/downloads/20... ) was just as you said, there'd not be much of a record to find for civs older than 4 Ma. Also, ther
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by Vetch 5y ago
Are you sure about this? I actually looked into this not too long ago and that theory no longer seems well supported. Oil forms when sea plankton and algae are buried and exposed to high pressures and heat. Coal forms when dead plant materi
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by Vetch 5y ago
AlphaZero cannot chat and interact outside moving pieces. For science, self-training would be too wasteful, intractable and impossible to boot, given there's no simulator. An AlphaZero for science would instead be like the recent deepm
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The article's core claims are: > Extracting, structuring or synthesizing "insights" from academic publications (papers) or building knowledge bases from a domain corpus of literature has negligible value in industry. >
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This sort of evasiveness around speaking on method limitations, down playing or de-emphasizing related work but boosting senior authors previous work is standard academic fare. It's partly a strategy against novelty nitpickers and resu
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by Vetch 5y ago
> refrigeration should reduce the incidence of food poisoning According to the paper, the implicated Yersinia are able to survive the cold at refrigeration temperatures and in vacuum packaging. Due to longer storage times and reduced com
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by Vetch 5y ago
The paper notes as much: > Since Y. pseudotuberculosis is genetically very similar to Y. pestis, we hypothesised that NOD2 mutations may have provided a survival advantage to mutation carriers in the past during plague epidemics. As supp
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by Vetch 5y ago
> high level intent is just sugar I disagree with how your use of "just" here. It's common for programmers to dismiss the importance of syntax but syntax and notation are the interface and UX between the language semantics
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by Vetch 5y ago
The fact that certain skills atrophy if not used is the brain prioritizing efficient allocation of resources. If you're not making daily and active use of relevant concepts then the only way to reliably remember them is to use spaced r
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by Vetch 5y ago
Yeah, from what I've read Collies are a smarter breed and also vary in intelligence amongst themselves. High obedience has been shown to at times be counter to good test performance as it means lower curiosity, higher dependence on hum
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It looks like the basic meta-algorithm is: 1) Notice a pattern in the mathematics 2) Device a neural network that leverages structural properties of the space you wish to investigate 3) Encode relationship in a manner allowing use of superv
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> in reality, you have customers that are very upset about the sudden spike in observable defects...a bunch of bugs introduced by your refactor That's what I meant to capture by agreeing there is overlap in terms of backwards compat
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This captures the backwards compatibility and long range entangled dependencies aspect of change resistance. It misses the aspect of organizations that is agent like, capable of homeostasis. Unlike static code, when things change, such syst
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You make good points on how bitcoin could grow to use a larger share of generated energy even without increases in its exchange price, but don't forget Andy and Bill's law: "what Andy giveth, Bill taketh away". More gene
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In my experience, your described state of affairs is common in poor economies. Robberies and kidnapping ransoms are relatively frequent. Shootings are rare but still way too frequent. Workers often go unpaid and it's not unusual for wa
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Humans are not so bad as drivers. Your example is an event from over 2 decades ago and was deemed newsworthy. Humans drive in all kinds of conditions but death rate is about 1 per 100 million miles driven. A search reveals crashes to be on
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It's an example among many, of something with a technically clear solution but which seems trapped in a hard to exit equilibrium and collective action problem. The major journals confer prestige and are nearly all paid access. Those wh

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