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The Rise of Wet AI: How generative AI is being used by scientists(proto.life)
1 points by aneil 3y ago|0 comments
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by aneil 3y ago
I'm really puzzled about LangChain. It looks like a lot of cruft and abstraction over something that is very simple. Every senior engineer I know feels the same way. Please explain why I'm wrong.
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by aneil 3y ago
> Lisp’s unusual syntax is connected to its expressive power. How? Not because of “homoiconicity”, a word that has no meaning but leaves people somewhat impressed, because it sounds fanciful and mathematical. It’s because of uniformity.
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by aneil 4y ago
Why is he still out on bail?
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by aneil 4y ago
> Whatever index card system or similar the operating procedure in the room prescribes for keeping track of state? You're missing the point. A bit is just some electrons. It could be a scribble in a notebook. But consciousness integ
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by aneil 4y ago
> Regular meat-and-bone people lose consciousness all the time, and regain it later. No big deal. So what? There are lots of REAL physical processes that are disrupted in a human being when they lose consciousness. The point of the Chine
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by aneil 4y ago
Why is "emerging from computation" simple ? As an explanation, it seems vastly more complex. I mean, the laws of physics don't even contain terms for defining or valuing computation. Even my examples (which were meant to be
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by aneil 4y ago
I think the burden is on the proponents. Otherwise anyone could make any assertion - for example, that action potentials cause consciousness, or that influx of ions cause consciousness, or that vibrations cause consciousness, or that only h
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by aneil 4y ago
But the argument shows it's absurd to think the room is conscious. What if the person in the room takes a coffee break or goes on vacation? What connects the next computational step they do to the previous one and the next... which the
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by aneil 4y ago
You could execute a loop that reflects on an internal model using pen and paper. Is that system conscious? Imagine only one computational step of that loop happening everyday. Does qualia arise from that? What is detecting that that one s
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by aneil 4y ago
Well that explains part of it. It does look like they plan to do something about it finally: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/v3frc1/what_were_wo... > Performant > One consistent message fr
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by aneil 4y ago
Maybe if they can just focus on making their video servers work sometime in the next decade.
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by aneil 4y ago
I'm a founder. I agree, it's a scam. The constraint I bump up against is that VCs expect standard terms which means that stock options will be granted with tight post-exit expiry schedules. The best we've managed to do is to
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by aneil 4y ago
I was thinking of the Pinski-Narin method, but there are other earlier uses of eigenvector calculations over very similar data: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1002.2858.pdf
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by aneil 4y ago
Specifically, some manager at Mozilla was scared of it.
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by aneil 4y ago
How did they even get that patent? It's a well known 70s era bibliometric algorithm.
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by aneil 4y ago
Evil genius.
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by aneil 4y ago
All what information?
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by aneil 4y ago
Some reddit users said this is normal? Ok!
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by aneil 4y ago
I thought I was alone when I unsubbed. I couldn't believe everyone was watching the trash Netflix was churning out. I take their decline as a positive statement about humanity.
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by aneil 4y ago
Here's a video that explains the effect visually https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYDh5d9pfu8
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by aneil 5y ago
Put a sign on your inner front door: "Did you commit your changes?"
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by aneil 5y ago
This is all solid. I would only add that it's our duty to avoid the news as its largely a source of propaganda serving the interests of concentrated capital and the two party system.
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by aneil 5y ago
It was Joe's content to do with as he pleased, and his decision was to sell it and allow someone else to do with it as they pleased. That's simple enough, but it's also simplistic because it assumes that property rights are t
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by aneil 5y ago
Jesus. A lot of indiscriminate nuking of content with the Feb 4 date. Tim Ferriss, Comedian Russell Peters, Dan Savage, Giorgio Tsoulakis (the "It's Aliens" guy), Kyle Kulinski. What a shit show. I'd love for someone to
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by aneil 5y ago
Exactly my experience. I got sucked into using more than once, thinking it would be better next time, but there are just so many sharp edges. At one company, someone accidentally set the write rate rate high to transfer data into the db. Th
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by aneil 6y ago
A slap on the hand.
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by aneil 7y ago
The worst part of the keyboard is the touchbar. I'd say well over 50% of my attempts to adjust sound level fail due to triggering other functions. I've been using this thing for over a year, and I hate it more every day. I don&#x2
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by aneil 8y ago
This is called putting lipstick on the pig. The pig, in this case, being marginal utility theory.
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by aneil 8y ago
The lawsuit alleges Harvard didn't even meet the applicants. It looks pretty bad for them.

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