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by agentcoops 1y ago
Completely agreed. I note in a comment below that my only aim is to distinguish between deals that provide new evidence of a bubble and those that do not provide any further evidence towards that conclusion. I think the Oracle and especiall
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by agentcoops 1y ago
I understand that. I simply think there's some importance in at least trying to empirically tease out what represents: (1) a circular deal in which vendors facing the limits of growth are subsidizing vulnerable clients; versus (2) a
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by agentcoops 1y ago
I’ve seen a lot of confusion about this type of deal recently: notably, it is often taken to imply something more or less shady is going on. I’m not sure when such arrangements became a thing, but I know equity stakes have long been an impo
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by agentcoops 1y ago
I agree with you on the question of extrinsic values and do not envy people who are starting college right now, trying to make decisions about an extra-ordinarily unclear future. I recently became a father and I try to convince myself that
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by agentcoops 1y ago
(Almost) nobody who does a humanities PhD is doing so for a job. It's wrong, I think, to consider that simply idealism: there still do exist people who consider writing to be a vocation and that their life would be intolerable if it is
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by agentcoops 1y ago
Triples are fantastic for information retrieval, but I think if there's any takeaway from the unexpected success of LLMs it's that AI researchers historically undervalued language as such. Early symbolic approaches to AI retrospec
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by agentcoops 1y ago
Same. I note in-advance that I'm not sure whether you yourself are referring to use of LLM tools in your research or rather the results of your own domain specific application of deep learning etc -- here, I assume the former. I feel l
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by agentcoops 1y ago
To be clear, I'm not 'missing' that -- I'm saying it's part of a trend since the 1990s ("globalization") that, for various reasons, people believed stopped in 2016/2020.
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by agentcoops 1y ago
I don't disagree, but this has been the trend since the 1990s. This was the whole question of "globalization" and all the debates about NAFTA etc. The only anomaly was that people came to believe (in 2020? maybe even 2016...)
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by agentcoops 1y ago
Of course it’s not black and white: it’s the very fact that there are so many possible explanations of the current changes that makes pretending data supports a given explanation more than another when it doesn’t so misleading. There’s no d
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by agentcoops 1y ago
Apologies if my presentation is inadequate, but I’m not suggesting that stock price is a proxy for headcount. I’m simply arguing that you have to look at the two together in the context of a particular firm — for exactly the reason you note
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by agentcoops 1y ago
I’m not describing what’s happening right now — I’m saying the data shown in the article is insufficient to ground what it claims. The testimony you mention better supports the argument, but also is insufficient to show that this shift to H
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by agentcoops 1y ago
I think this interpretation of the data rests on a misunderstanding of how a firm conceives of headcount. You saw this a lot during Covid layoffs when the press tried to point out the contradiction between hiring X number of people at the s
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by agentcoops 1y ago
There's an ambiguity in the title, reflected in some comments below. It can be understood either as the claim that "in a particular human being, to be intelligent as measured by IQ means that you are more likely to be autistic&quo
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by agentcoops 1y ago
Completely agreed. Whether it be AI or otherwise, I consider anything that gives me more time to focus on figuring out the right problem to solve or iterating on possible solutions to be good. Yet every time that someone here earnestly test
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by agentcoops 1y ago
Thanks for the tips! It's really interesting going back to that point of indistinction in these languages where even the proximity to old English is so strong. I've been hoping to try and read some of the old sagas in the process,
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by agentcoops 1y ago
Yeah, language learning is such a wild thing. I have a five month old son now and I'm just getting to see the process of language acquisition firsthand. He'll be going to early school (eventually) in Danish, but probably won'
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by agentcoops 1y ago
I'm sure there are, but I can personally attest to the quality of those two. The French one in particular is just astonishingly well-executed that I would recommend looking at it if you were interested in techniques. The "magic&qu
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by agentcoops 1y ago
I just had a kid and moved to DK from the US. I was so skeptical of the infant (and often mother!) in cart on front of bike that you see everywhere, but it's such a life-changer versus the ordeal of carseats etc. TLDR totally agreed.
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by agentcoops 1y ago
I understand both your historical question and the more concrete practical one. Separating reading comprehension as a skill from all the other discrete functions of a language is very straight-forward [1] and, in fact, there are some good a
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by agentcoops 1y ago
The article hints at it, but my guess would be this investment is intended towards Intel foundry and getting it to a place where NVIDIA can eventually rely on them over TSMC — and the ownership largely to give them upside if/when Intel
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by agentcoops 1y ago
I have a similar relation to AI with programming -- and my sense is very many HN readers do as well, evidenced not least by the terrific experience report from antirez [1]. Yet it is rare to see such honest and open statements even here. In
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by agentcoops 1y ago
I had to double-check my source and I realize the error was mine. “40% read at or above an eighth grade level” is the correct description of the state-level data I was looking at, which is distinct from the general metric used for literacy.
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by agentcoops 1y ago
There are more divisions than just “data” vs “vibes.” After all, even in the natural sciences, the best data is useless without an explanation/hypothesis that can never just be reduced to the data. Precisely what is thrown out in the d
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by agentcoops 1y ago
I’m originally from a US state that currently sits at a 40% literacy rate, but I’ve lived for the last decade in various European countries. I say this only because, even if still anecdotal, I feel like I have a decent basis for comparison.
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by agentcoops 1y ago
I’m from a US state with a 40% adult literacy rate (=above eighth grade reading level). At least there, none of those three things are even close to the root causes. The average school in the US outside of the big cities, especially the far
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by agentcoops 1y ago
For a similar project, I worked with GPT to create an extensive dataset of translations from a historical language. I could then use this both to evaluate base capacity of other models in the language, i.e. giving the model the task of tran
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by agentcoops 1y ago
Not an answer to your original question, but I think you’d be surprised how much high quality historical linguistic content was hiding in the dusty old corners of the internet. I’ve been doing some work recently with LLMs on historical lang
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by agentcoops 1y ago
GraphRAG does full entity extraction across the entire data set, then looks at every relation between those entities in the documents, then looks at every “community” of relations and generates narratives/descriptions for everything at
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by agentcoops 1y ago
Honestly I don’t know the best answer, but my sense is there’s something important in the direction the OP is going: I.e moving away from vector search or preprocessing towards dynamic exploration of the document space by an agent. Ultimate

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