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I grant that the term has become commonplace and very catchy and no one has been able to supplant it with a better descriptive I still hold that there is good reason to be concerned with researchers claiming to objectively evaluate a silico
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Well it's interesting - many LLM researchers reject "hallucination" in favour of the term "confabulation" but I'll double down and say that I still don't like either as they are both terms from clinical ps
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Looking through some other articles from "Confirm Labs" it's striking how often concepts related to the underlying mathematical mechanism related to LLM models (i.e. linear algebra, latent embedding, optimization techniques,
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2y ago
> I used ChatGPT and recipes I got from github Will you share the github source?
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2y ago
duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43434925
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boston globe article about Kristi Noem incident some weeks ago: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/27/nation/rising-border-... line from the archived website: "The Haskells wanted Canadians and Ame
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The paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01480-8
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Very fun - cool concept
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A good professor convinced me hydrogen was a dead end some years ago. But to be fair busses and trains and other public transit that does fixed routes every day is the perfect bench for any clean energy drive train that needs real world tes
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Oh, and specific to Tesla from a WP article last week: “ About a third of Tesla’s $35 billion in profits since 2014 has come from selling federal and state regulatory credits to other automakers. The credits are given to automakers that mee
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Reminds me of the situation in Canada[1], which was due mostly to a government subsidy being phased out but certainly also in part "personality driven". In general it seems like local subsidies are a huge driver of the global EV m
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Looks really good
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I had been hoping that apple would one day produce an M-series chip powered version of the 12 inch retina macbook air. They discontinued those in 2017 and I have one of the last ones that were sold but the battery is very dead and it has st
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2y ago
This is exactly what I was thinking of but could not remember the name of that society
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>To build on our findings, we’ve launched a trial to study the use of artificial intelligence to automate oxygen delivery. Not to beat a dead horse but looking over what I believe is the patent [1] for the oxygen delivery device in quest
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Americans have a long history of convincing themselves that their president is a Russian agent
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> Boost your assembly line efficiency by up to 30% Ethics of this aside the above claim must be dubious I would think the majority of manufacturing inefficiencies are due to down time as a result of raw material shipping delays or machin
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2y ago
I don’t mind an icon but I am frustrated if hovering the mouse doesn’t show a tooltip or alt-text style label It makes learning new software much slower and basically requires going to the docs or a video tutorial if the ui design isn’t exa
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> 32.67% of the successful patches involve cheating as the solutions were directly provided in the issue report or the comments. Is this what Hofstadter means by a strange-loop?
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I was a university student in golden age of libgen so Glass Houses and all - but it's crazy that this was approved from the top of a company that could maybe have even legally purchased the bulk of this collection without hurting quart
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I think (I assume but could be wrong) in the average CEO X-tweet "control" likely only means 'control' nobody was reading through UCC Article 12 while drafting this message As in: "The hacker gained access to"
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Maybe not - a number of high-value past hacks have been very low effort I have yet to see a thorough explanation of what specifically was hacked here anyhow
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^Yep When you decentralize finance like this what becomes okay to do according to system rules is exactly what is possible to do according to system rules. We don't have humans in that loop anymore to enforce moral judgments about what
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2y ago
I wondered if this might be a joke about ethereum
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https://xkcd.com/927/
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I would have commented something about stuxnet until I got to the last paragraph. That’s a neat proof of concept.
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I won't watch that video just right now but I assume the paper is this one: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.06623 And I'll include this colourful quote: "This is orders of magnitude larger than the largest nu
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Someone's already made a chrome extension to search+replace "Gulf of America" to "Gulf of Mexico" in online text I don't think it works for google maps place titles but no doubt someone will fix that. It's
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I do not disagree. However all “good” ADs are less effective than they could be when the population experiences a nearly unavoidable torrent of “not good” ADs. People are savvy and broadly know the difference but on a subconscious level lik
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The below section resonates: lately YouTube has figured out I am in my mid-twenties and considering for the first time how best to save money for a secure/stable future. The number of ADs I see now not so subtly implying that I can exp
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