YossarianFrPrez

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by YossarianFrPrez 3mo ago
Between this and the "Sunset time and the economic effects of social jetlag: evidence from US time zone borders" paper [0], it seems like the issue is the size of the discontinuous jump in time, not necessarily that we change the
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by YossarianFrPrez 3mo ago
While I have some experience, I'm afraid I am learning mostly through a) trial and error, and b) using an llm chat interface to double check my thinking. This being said, here are my top recommendations: 1. Build your system against re
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by YossarianFrPrez 3mo ago
Looking at the linked scoring prompt (resume_evaluation_criteria.jinja) [0], I immediately see several red flags that suggest the output won't be reliable. (I'm developing an LLM intensive application where the stakes are high eno
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by YossarianFrPrez 4mo ago
Hmm. Maybe they are concerned about state actors trying to train equivalent models without the safeguards?
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by YossarianFrPrez 4mo ago
I'd like to offer a counter-point to many of the comments here. While I understand being stymied and frustrated by a product one is paying for... At the same time, I personally think the tradeoff between "having guardrails" a
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Ask HN: What custom instructions do you use to minimize LLM sycophancy?
1 points by YossarianFrPrez 6mo ago|3 comments
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by YossarianFrPrez 6mo ago
Reactions to this are a bit curious. It's a satirical comment on how (presumably) initially well-intentioned younger founder-types get swept up in / by perverse incentives. The implication is that younger people who are still figu
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by YossarianFrPrez 6mo ago
Obviously this is quite unfortunate. While these cases can highlight latent mental health problems, it's still an issue that such things being exacerbated. I also think it will be interesting if anyone ever quantifies whether some LLMs
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TB Eradicator: Space Invaders but the Enemies Are TB Bacteria(tberadicator.com)
2 points by YossarianFrPrez 7mo ago|0 comments
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Grammarly is using authors' identities without permission unless they opt out(theverge.com)
33 points by YossarianFrPrez 7mo ago|7 comments
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by YossarianFrPrez 8mo ago
I worked in tech for ~8 years and am now finishing up a PhD. One thing that stood out to me is how that in most scientific fields review papers tend to receive more citations than empirical work. This post looks at citation patterns and arg
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Review Papers May Matter More Than Experiments(evanwarfel.substack.com)
2 points by YossarianFrPrez 8mo ago|2 comments
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by YossarianFrPrez 9mo ago
Fair question. While I'm not an expert on AI Alignment, I'd be surprised if any AI alignment approach did not involve real math at some point, given that all machine learning algorithms are inherently mathematical-computational in
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by YossarianFrPrez 9mo ago
What a terrible, awful tragedy! A few months ago, OpenAI shared some data about how with 700 million users, 1 million people per week show signs of mental distress in their chats [1]. OpenAI is aware of the problem [2], not doing enough, an
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by YossarianFrPrez 9mo ago
Per the article, this seems even better than the headline would suggest: > Histotripsy generally seems to stimulate an immune response, helping the body attack cancer cells that weren’t targeted directly by ultrasound. The mechanical des
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by YossarianFrPrez 10mo ago
Not only do people leave the US but stay in Academia, plenty of people leave the research pipeline after receiving years and years of highly specialized, expert training. As an American who used to work in Tech and is currently getting a Ph
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by YossarianFrPrez 10mo ago
And like any digits of Chatin's constant.
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by YossarianFrPrez 1y ago
It's seemingly quasi-semi-related to The Foundation's 'atomic knives'?
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by YossarianFrPrez 1y ago
Maybe I'm just a sci-fi nerd who loves innovation, but this is so cool! Clearly, this product is not intended for the mass market, and may find purchase with people who have tennis elbow and who can afford it, etc. <insert other cri
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by YossarianFrPrez 1y ago
Can you explain what you mean about 'not needing to be solved'? There are versions of that kind of critique that would seem, at least on the surface, to better apply to finance or flash trading. I ask because scaling an system tha
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by YossarianFrPrez 1y ago
Side note: The organization that maintains Lean is a "Focused Research Organization", which is a new model for running a science/discovery based nonprofit. This might be useful knowledge for founder types who are interested i
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by YossarianFrPrez 1y ago
Some days I joke that there should be a set of Nobel prizes for making machines quieter. Categories could include: air-conditioning units and mini-fridges, construction and landscaping equipment, old university buildings, pump-housings, etc
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by YossarianFrPrez 1y ago
Ah, interesting. So what (I think) you are saying is that if there is enough of the right type of philanthropic, in-kind donation more people will be able to donate in the future. I will admit the possibility that there may be a clever way
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by YossarianFrPrez 1y ago
From what I can understand, instead of funding various causes via "matching donations" QF is proposal for a funding body to do something like 'match in proportion to a blend of the donation amount with the number of people do
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by YossarianFrPrez 1y ago
> It also axed research on Covid-19, including studies that could have helped the nation respond to many infectious disease threats. Among them: a grant to Emory University and Georgia State University, where researchers had developed th
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by YossarianFrPrez 1y ago
Seconded, as not only is this an interesting idea, it might also help solve the issue of checking for reproducibility. Yet even then human evaluators would need to go over the AI-reproduced research with a fine-toothed comb. Practically spe
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by YossarianFrPrez 1y ago
This is a cool paper! Basically, prior to feeding text to the tokenizer people have split the text on whitespaces. But whitespaces aren't exactly meaningful separators. By getting rid of this restriction as the tokenizer is 'learn
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by YossarianFrPrez 1y ago
I'm a bit afraid that some people will read this article or skim it and say "The fact that you have to do all of this 'branding' is just further proof that science is riddled with irredeemable incentive issues." How
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by YossarianFrPrez 1y ago
There are two sets of perverse incentives at play. The main one the author focuses on is that LLM companies are incentivized to produce verbose answers, so that when you task an LLM on extending an already verbose project, the tokens used a
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by YossarianFrPrez 1y ago
In "The Utopia of Rules" David Graeber (author of "On Bullshit Jobs") suggests that one reason why "bell labs worked" is because the corporate tax rate was relatively high during the golden age of bell labs. Th

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