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by abrax3141 3y ago
You (and everyone else) is missing the point of my post. (I admit to having thrown it poorly.) Forget the QC part; It confidently described an algorithm to square a number, which literally any beginning CS student could do, that didn’t even
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by abrax3141 3y ago
If it was trained on CS textbooks, they weren't very good ones. I asked it (GPT4) to write a quantum computer algorithm to square a number. It very confidently told me that to simplify the problem it would use two bits. Okay, fine. But
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by abrax3141 3y ago
I’ve thought many times - like literally every time I use Tf - that I should hack a Lisp interface to it. But, of course, PotAU, I never get a round twit.
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by abrax3141 3y ago
“If someone asks you a question they’ve got no business asking, you’re under no obligation to tell them the truth.” — Leonard Schiffman (From: “Blend me in: Privacy-Preserving Input Generalization for Personalized Online Services” https:&#
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by abrax3141 3y ago
The thing that is a verb isn’t “knowledge”, it’s “explanation”. Giving an appropriate explanation (or, more generally, answering a question appropriately) is a problem to be solved. Problem solving (whether one is expecting explicit goal se
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by abrax3141 3y ago
I just finished hand converting ~1k lines of js to cl. I’ve been using lisp for multiple decades, and every time I have to use another language it’s so painful, either per syntax or speed, that if I want to extend the code, it’s often worth
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Hallucinate This: An authoritized autobotography(markcmarino.com)
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Three Reviews of J. Weizenbaum’s Computer Power and Human Reason (1976) [pdf](apps.dtic.mil)
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by abrax3141 3y ago
I've been a hard core lisper for almost 50 years, and have coded in pretty much every other language in that time, either professionally or for fun. But I always return to lisp, because Lisp isn't a programming language. There are
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Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design(mechanism-design.org)
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by abrax3141 3y ago
Yes. And, once more with feeling: https://xkcd.com/297/
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by abrax3141 3y ago
Ahhhh! A breath of fresh air in this world of ugly Algol-wedged hyper-utilitarianism. (I was going to say “hyper-functionalism”, but the unintended pun confused the sense.) [Although, I must admit that js is actually pretty descent, and can
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by abrax3141 3y ago
Possibly related: “Observation of Phase Transitions in Spreading Activation Networks” (Science, 1987) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1axt_8KfP2wd2p2cwMt5IGEfaekU...
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Ask HN: What can we learn about human cognition from the performance of LLMs
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by abrax3141 3y ago
Although that's structurally approximately correct it understates the influence that SA had, and continues to have (IMHO, see below). Mathematically, Spreading Activation is essentially contextually driven probability integration, sort
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A Spreading Activation Theory of Semantic Processing (1975)(researchgate.net)
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by abrax3141 3y ago
Okay, so I asked ChatGPT4 to "Please program a short pattern matcher in Utero." At first it complained: "I'm sorry, but as of my knowledge cut-off in September 2021, there's no programming language called "Uter
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by abrax3141 3y ago
Okay, so it literally took me three reading to get this! :-)
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by abrax3141 3y ago
Yeah, and in those days kids weren’t all learning to program in utero.
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by abrax3141 3y ago
No. Racter was over a decade later.
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by abrax3141 3y ago
Sorry. The couple of typos don’t help. (I tried to edit them but it was too late.) Yes, per @fhars, “fmi” is pretty common text-speak for “for more info” (which google will tell you if you search for it). “Morally equivalent” is a term use
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by abrax3141 3y ago
https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_equivalence
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by abrax3141 3y ago
Thanks! BTW, there’s a bunch of minor corrections and clarifications here: https://sites.google.com/view/elizagen-org/the-original-eliz... And if you’re into this sort of thing, just yesterday Mel Hogan, host of T
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by abrax3141 3y ago
I've worked with the various LLMS quite a lot at this point (for someone who doesn't do it professionally ... well, I guess I sort of do ... but not for any of the companies who make them.) Anyway, it's amazing how close thes
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by abrax3141 3y ago
Yeah, okay. Is there a word for being proud and embarrassed at the same time? ... Prembarassed?
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by abrax3141 3y ago
Ha ha -- fun! I'm embarrassed to say that I actually wrote that ELIZA ... in 1973, when I was ~13! It's a very poor BASIC knockoff of JW's 1966 ELIZA/DOCTOR. Having it talk to Bernie Cosell's Lisp ELIZA, or even be
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ONR Digital Computer Newsletter (1949-64)(bitsavers.org)
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The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan(shows.acast.com)
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by abrax3141 3y ago
Does someone have a link to the appeals court response to her pleading?
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by abrax3141 4y ago
10 humans ranging from 13 to 70 had no trouble at all understanding it.

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